Triple Match 3D is a timed, match-3 tile-matching game. The player's goal is to complete levels and earn coins and stars by collecting target items found in piles against a dark-gray background, such as swords, money bags, feathers, tree-shaped cookies, snowmen, balls and candlesticks.
The game doesn't treat the play like a classic match-3 scenario. The player doesn't perform each match on the field. Instead, they select the items for transfer into a seven-slot frame below the pile. When they select three of a kind, the game transfers the items, removes the pieces from the frame, and then counts each one toward the task displayed near the upper-left corner. If the player accidentally fills the frame or runs out of time, they must restart the level or view an ad to continue.
Triple Match 3D helps the player by offering boosters when they reach specific levels, including a clear, round incandescent light bulb that reveals and collects a set of three matching items; green arrows that remove the last item from the frame; a hurricane that shuffles all the items in the pile; and a time-freeze tool that stops the timer for a few seconds. They also receive access to add-on special boosters at the start of certain levels, such as lightning that strikes a pile and causes non-targeted items to shift around and reveal targeted ones. If they perform well enough and collect a certain number of coins and stars, they receive chests that contain extra boosters and coins.
