Matching With Friends Review

Matching With Friends has potential to become just as popular and addicting as Words With Friends or Scramble With Friends. But like all “With Friends” games, Matching With Friends needs to catch on before you have friends to play with. Matching With Friends will definitely get you hooked, but only if you have the patience to figure out how to play the game first.  The app has a slow-paced vibe similar to Words With Friends, where your turn has no time limit and you can move your pieces around to find the optimal choice for as long as you like.  Somewhat Tetris meets Bejeweled, the object of Matching With Friends is to match colors while rotating pieces to fit together in order to score the highest points.

The counter at the top of the screen shows how many points you will get from your turn, so you can move the tiles around to see which placement will score highest.  Once your opponent has moved and it is your turn, you first watch where they placed their tiles and can use this information to advance your own technique. As Matching With Friends progresses, the levels will get harder and it will become more difficult to match your colored tiles.  You can swap your tiles for new ones if you are not happy with the ones you are assigned, but swapping tiles costs coins so make sure you have enough coins first.  Matching With Friends also offers bonus options you can buy with coins, such as the bomb or lighting bolt, which blow up tiles to make room for more moves.  The downfall of this is even if you download the app for free, you’re likely to be spending money on in-app purchases for swaps and bomb or lightning bonuses.

Matching With Friends is a bit more complicated than your typical Zynga “With Friends” game and may take a little practice before getting the hang of it. That is, don’t expect to know how to play right off the bat without watching the brief tutorial it plays once you install the app.

Matching With Friends Tips

1 – Focus on the tiles you are dealt. When deciding your move, look at how the tiles your are dealt fit together before focusing on the tiles on the board. One you have found how to fit your tiles together for the highest points, then you can adapt your move to the tiles on the board and use bombs to make room for your placement.

2 – Use bombs wisely. You can only use two bombs in one game, so be strategic when using this bonus. Also keep in mind that bombs will blow up all adjacent tiles on the board.

3 – Be defensive. Always keep in mind the tiles that you are leaving on the board for your opponent’s next turn. In Matching With Friends it is important to play both offense and defense, not only scoring the highest points on your turn but making sure you are not handing your opponent an open opportunity. One way you can do this is blocking their use of multiplier tiles.

4 – Multipliers. Try to use multiplier tiles as much as possible.

5 – Stars. Take advantage of start tiles, which are essentially blank tiles that will extend your line of color.

6 – Use coins wisely. Coins are better spent on bombs and lightning that will blow up tiles and make room on the board rather than swapping tiles for new ones.

7 – Make long chains. Making long chains of same colored tiles will give you bigger bonuses and higher scores.

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