How to play
Swipe across the fruit to slice it. Three misses end the game.
About Fruit Slice
Fruit Slice turns your finger into a kitchen knife. Fruit is tossed up from the bottom of the screen, hangs in the air for a moment and falls back down. Swipe through each piece before it drops out of sight. Let three fall uncut and the game ends.
How to play
On a phone or tablet, drag your finger across the fruit. On a computer, hold the mouse button down and sweep the pointer through it. A simple tap on a fruit will not cut it, and neither will moving the mouse without the button held. You have to be in mid-swipe when you pass over the fruit.
Each fruit you slice is worth a point and fades away. Each one that falls back off the bottom of the screen without being cut costs a life. You begin with three. When they are gone, tap to start again.
The fruit bowl contains watermelons, oranges, apples, pineapples and lemons. They all behave the same way and are all worth the same, so there is no need to pick favourites. There are no bombs or other nasty surprises hidden among them. Everything that flies up is safe to cut.
How the fruit flies
A new piece is thrown about every two thirds of a second. Each one is launched with a different amount of force and at a slightly different angle. Some only make it to the lower half of the screen. Others sail nearly to the top. All of them slow down as they climb, hang for an instant at the peak, then fall faster and faster.
Unlike many games on this site, Fruit Slice does not speed up. The fruit arrives at the same steady rate in the tenth minute as in the first. That changes the nature of the challenge. Nothing gets harder. You simply have to keep going without a lapse, and three lapses is all you are allowed.
Slicing tips
Cut at the top of the arc. A fruit at its highest point is almost standing still, which makes it the easiest moment to hit. On the way up and on the way down it is moving quickly.
Use long strokes. You do not have to lift your finger between fruits. A single sweeping line can pass through two or three pieces if they are in the air together, and you can keep your finger on the glass and wander from one to the next.
Mind the low throws. The gentle tosses that never get far up the screen are the ones that cost lives, because they are back down before you have noticed them. Keep part of your attention on the lower part of the screen.
Do not scribble. Waving your finger around wildly feels effective but leaves you out of position. Calm, deliberate strokes hit more.
With a mouse, it is fine to keep the button held down the whole time and steer the pointer through each fruit.
What is a good score?
Fifty without losing a life is a tidy run. A hundred shows real concentration. Since the pace never changes, your score is mostly a measure of how long you can stay focused, which makes it a surprisingly good test of attention.
Where to play
Fruit Slice is at its best on a touchscreen, where the swipe feels natural, but it works with a mouse as well. It is free, runs in the browser and needs no download.