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Can you play match 3 games without downloading or signing up?

Yes. Every game on ovo.games runs in the web browser you already have, on a computer, a phone or a tablet, so there is no file to download and nothing to install. You also skip the sign-up form. The first time you open a game, the site sets you up as a guest on that device and you go straight into the game. The games are free with ads: short ad breaks come between levels, and a few rewards are offered as a short video that you choose to watch or skip. Peep Pop 2 and Tile Trio give everyone their first 40 levels. Egg Drop is a score game with no levels, and all of it is free. If you later want every level and no banner or break ads, the optional OvO Pass covers that and adds 500 OvO Tokens a month.

Peep Pop 2: the swap-and-match classic with 300 levels

Peep Pop 2 is the match 3 most people picture, except every piece is a round, blinking OvO. Drag an OvO onto a neighbour, or tap one and then the neighbour, to line up three or more of a colour. Four in a line makes a rocket that clears its row or column, an L or T shape makes a bomb, and five in a line makes a rainbow egg. Each level gives you a set number of moves and one or two goals: collect a colour, crack ice, or free OvOs stuck in bubbles. Beginner tips: read the goal at the top before your first swap, and try matches low on the board, where the OvOs falling in can set off extra matches for free. When two power-ups sit side by side, swap them together; a rocket and a bomb clear three rows and three columns at once. If no move is left, the board reshuffles for free.

Tile Trio: tap three of a kind, no swapping

Tile Trio keeps the three but drops the swap. Tiles with fruit, sweets and toys sit in layers. Bright tiles are free to take and dim ones are still covered. Tap a free tile and it flies into a tray with seven slots, where three of a kind pop. Empty the board to win; fill all seven slots without a trio and the level ends. There are 200 levels, with an easier breather every fifth level and a hard one every tenth, and every level can be solved. Beginner tips: take tiles that uncover others before the loose ones on top, and don't park single items in the tray, because the last two slots go fast. The tray glows as a warning once five slots are full. Your first Undo in each level is free, Hint lights up tiles that finish a trio, and Restart costs nothing. Items you pop for the first time go into a sticker album.

Egg Drop: a matching cousin that hatches pairs

To be fair, Egg Drop is not strictly match 3. It matches in pairs, but it scratches the same itch of putting like with like, and it may be the easiest of the three on a phone. Slide your finger to aim the egg above a glass jar and let go to drop it right under your finger; a dotted guide and a ring show where it will land. Two matching OvOs that touch hatch into the next one, up a ladder of 12 OvOs. Merges that follow each other quickly build a chain for extra points. There are no levels and no move limit: the run ends when a settled egg stays above the red line for two seconds. Beginner tips: check the Next bubble before every drop, land new eggs on their twins, and keep the middle of the jar low. The Daily jar gives everyone the same eggs in the same order, so it is a fair way to compare scores.

How do these games play on a phone or tablet?

All three were made for touch and stand upright on a phone, so one thumb is enough. In Peep Pop 2 you drag or tap twice to swap, and taps made while pieces are still falling are ignored, so a shaky thumb won't waste a move. Tile Trio needs nothing but taps on bright tiles. Egg Drop is a slide and a release. On a tablet held sideways, Peep Pop 2 puts the moves and score panel beside the board, and Tile Trio moves its tray into a column next to the board. On a phone held sideways, Tile Trio asks you to turn it upright, because the tiles would get too small to tap. On a computer you click with the mouse. Peep Pop 2 also takes the arrow keys and Enter, and Egg Drop aims with the arrow keys or A and D and drops with Space, Enter or the Down arrow. The Shapes on colours setting adds a symbol or number to each piece if some colours are hard to tell apart.

Does your progress save without an account?

Yes, on the device you play on. The site starts you as a guest and keeps your place in the level games. Peep Pop 2 also keeps your best stars per level, which grow a garden you can open from Settings. Tile Trio keeps your sticker album, and Egg Drop keeps your best score and the OvOs you have hatched in its album. The catch is that a guest profile lives on that one device. To carry on from your phone to your laptop, sign in with Apple or Google: your guest progress and tokens move to the account automatically, and the same account works in the OvO.games app for iPhone, iPad and Android. Signing in is never required just to play.

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