Holiday Swapz - Free Game

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Nice one.

I did run into a few issues, though:

1) On several occasions, the game got confused. If you play fast and click while there are already blocks cascading, occasionally one of the falling blocks will be off horizontally. The image on the block is then not draw on the center, and the game will NOT respond to any further left-mouse clicks, no matter where you click. It seems that doing a right-click somewhere gets it back to normal though, and you can resume gameplay.

2) The 'click click click' sound effect (dropping blocks?) is kind of annoying, more so because it only appears to come from the left speaker regardless of where on the screen it happens. If you play fast, it sounds like a rabid woodpecker trying out morse code. there's never more than half a second when I'm not hearing the tock-tock-tock-tock noise. (Other than when I run out of moves, see #3)

3) I'm pretty good at most of these match-3 games, and play pretty quickly. Most levels so far I've had between 3 and 4 minutes left on the clock when I finish them. Right now I'm in level 6, with over 30,000 points. However, twice in a row now I've completely ran out of moves. No more options, no firecrackers, and 3 minutes on the counter looking around with no possible moves.
I suggest you try to prevent such a stalemate by either giving you a firecracker or something (if this is already supposed to happen, then it's not working)
Or, if you want to penalize the player for getting locked up in the first place, you may want to detect it and end the game, rather than having him stare at the clock for several minutes. :-?

4) the 'repeat the lights' mini game had the same problem where it didn't respond to my left mouse button at all, until I hit the right one first.. And then it immediately failed me for not repeating properly.

But is a very nice game.

(Note: I finished level 6 on the 4th try, the first 3 ended with me staring at the clock because there were no more moves left)