Moving the purple piece isn't the right move.

The move to make is a swap.

Make a swap to remove the long horizontal bar near the top.

Swap the green and blue gems in the long horizontal bar near the top. The long bar disappears, the purple pair falls, and the level is cleared.

The move is a drag, and it's from one extreme part of the board to another.

The piece to move is in the lower-left corner.

The place to move it is in the upper-right part of the board.

The chain reaction starts from the upper-left part of the board. How to get it started?

The move to make is to drag a 1-cell piece. Which piece? Where to drag it?

The piece to drag is the 1-cell blue piece in the upper-left part of the board. Where to drag it?

Drag the piece so that it's involved in the last match of the chain reaction.

Drag the piece to the lower-right part of the board.

Vertical alignment is the key.

All of the matches happen after the third move. If you make matches on your first or second move, try something else.

All three moves are spins, and the third move turns a frown into a smile.

Start by spinning the piece at the bottom.

Next spin the straight bar piece at the top.

Finally spin the middle "frown" piece.

Notice what happens if you start by swapping the purple and red gems in the lower-right corner of the board. Lots of stuff gets cleared. But perhaps a bit too much stuff?

As mentioned in the first hint, swapping the purple and red gems in the lower-right corner seems good, but it ends up clearing a couple pieces that you need later. Can you first spin one of those pieces to avoid losing both pieces too early?

As mentioned in the first hint, you want to swap the purple and red gems in the lower-right corner, but only after spinning one piece up top to prevent early match/clear of two pieces.

Start by spinning the purple/green pair piece at the top of the pillar. Then you can swap the purple and red gems in the lower-right corner without losing that purple/green pair piece; it's needed later.

After spinning the purple/green pair piece at the top of the pillar, swap the purple and red gems in the lower-right corner of the board. Then swap the red and purple gems in the lower-left corner of the board. Then make one final swap or spin.

Look at the colors of the paired gems along the left and right sides of the board.

How can you order the pieces on the top of the heap to align with the colors on the sides?

Note that, on the right side, we need a purple gem on the bottom to clear the purples, then a blue gem to clear the blues, and finally a green gem to clear the greens.

How can you drag two of the three upper pieces to get the required order?

The first move is to drag the second piece on the pile (the piece with two yellow gems in the center) straight up vertically to the top of the pile.

The two T-shaped pieces need to drop to match the rows of yellows and greens. How can you get them to drop?

You'll need to get the block of four purples to touch the lower purples. How many ways are there to get it to touch?

Rotate the two S-shaped pieces. Now how can you get rid of those two pieces?

After rotating the two S-shaped pieces, you can get rid of them by dragging another piece.

After rotating the two S-shaped pieces, drag the double-green piece at the bottom of the board to remove the two S-shaped pieces.

That innermost 1-cell blue piece is itching to be matched with some of the blues lower down, but don't do it too soon!

You might be tempted to think that solving this puzzle involves making a move that causes black gems to drop in. But that's not true; no black gems are involved.

Spin two of the larger pieces to line things up, paying attention to where the unmatched cells are. Then make a final move.

Start by spinning the outermost ring.

Next spin the innermost ring.

Finally move the singleton piece.

We'll admit it: This puzzle ain't easy. As in prior puzzles, you might be tempted to think black gems are required, but they are not.

An important fact about this puzzle is that all of the matches that need to happen are matches of three gems, not four or more. With that in mind, study the left and right halves of the board, and figure out where there's too many or too few of a color on a given side.

Note that there are the wrong number of purples on both the left and right sides of the board, and the wrong number of reds on both the left and right sides of the board.

We could balance the number of reds by moving the double red in the upper-right corner of the board to the left side of the board. And we could balance the purples (and still keep balance in the greens) by moving the green-purple pair at the bottom of the board to the right side.

How can we make those two moves? In particular, we'd really like to move that green-purple pair right onto the fourth row of the board (counting the rows from the top) to match the double green and double purple. But if we try to do that as the first move, the left side falls, the right side falls, we get a black gem, and things are generally messed up.

Move the double red first, and move it to a place (a place of support) that allows you to then move the green-purple pair without the left side falling.

Move the double red to the bottom-left corner of the board.

Look at those three unmatched 1-cell gems in the lower-left of the board. Unless a miracle happens, some of those gems, and maybe all of them, are going to have to move somewhere else to find a match.

Note that the 1-cell blue gem at the top of the board would match nicely with two other unmatched blues on the left side of the board if we could only spin that tall L-shaped piece.

By moving the three singletons in the lower-left, and then spinning the tall L-shaped piece on the left, we can match those first three blues and set off a cascade. But the cascade will only work if you positioned those singletons correctly.

The right place for the red singleton is at the top of the third column of the board. This will make it fall to match the two unmatched reds waiting at the bottom. How can you position the other two singletons similarly?

The right place for the purple singleton is at the top of the fourth column of the board. This will make it fall to match the two unmatched purples waiting at the bottom. Now place the yellow singleton (where?) and finally spin the leftmost tall L piece.

The right place for the yellow singleton is at the top of the eighth column of the board. Now spin the leftmost tall L piece.

Before raising the bar, do some other work first.

Remember that to make each match of three gems, you'll need a gem from the bar plus two others.

The bar must be both spun and raised.

The first eight moves are to get the singletons sitting on top of matching pegs.

The last two moves are to raise the bar and spin the bar.

You need to set up a cascade of moves.

The action of the cascade will move from the right side of the screen to the left side of the screen.

The cascade will start with a flying piece flying upwards.

The cascade will end with the match of the three purple singletons.

The piece to move is one of the purple singletons.

Think about the purple gems. You'll need to make a match with them.

One of the T shapes is nothing but trouble.

Notice that if you drag the 3-bar under the left T, things line up nicely. Perhaps too nicely.

The first move is to spin one of the T shapes.

The third move is to spin the other T shape.

The second move is to drag the 3-bar.

In the solution, no matches happen until the third move has been made.

Spinning? Not so much.

Swapping? Not so much.

The very last matches that happen are four purples and three greens, both stacked vertically.

The solution involves no swapping and no spinning. This means it's just two drags. You drag a piece to the unused peg, and then drag another piece to the peg that just got freed up. That leaves only six possible combinations of moves.

The large piece in the middle needs to move up and down.

The green singleton is weighing the large piece down.

The vertical 3-bar is also keeping the large piece from moving freely.

It would be nice to get rid of those pieces that are keeping the bar from moving freely.

How can you get rid of the green singleton and the vertical 3-bar in three moves?

The first move is to spin the vertical 3-bar.

The second move is to drag the green singleton to set it up for a match on the next move (the move in Hint 8).

The third move is to drag the vertical 3-bar...