Unsurprisingly, bombs are useful for clearing a radius of all surrounding, adjacent tiles. The winged keys clear the four closest gems in a cross pattern and then flutter their way to a gem, obstacle, or enemy. In terms of helpful items, there are winged keys, bombs, lightning bolts, and bags that suck in like-colored gems.

However, things do get more interesting once you are introduced to items and start to learn spells. This has all been done before, so it’s not particularly interesting. You can also clear gems in lines of four or five, as well as L-shaped lines and squares. Each puzzle has you clear like-colored gems in horizontal or vertical lines of three. The concept here is basically the same as Bejeweled. The story is light and basically just amounts to a set-piece, but I think that fans will appreciate the tie-ins nonetheless.

You start your journey at the Dursley home and take the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9 and 3/4 to the infamous school of magic, Hogwarts. In terms of story, the puzzles that I have completed so far track closely with Sorcerer’s Stone. Overall, it feels about as loyal a recreation as you can get from a casual puzzle game. The game features the music, sounds, voiceovers, and likenesses from the original Harry Potter films. Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells is a match-three puzzle-adventure game with spells and familiar characters.

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Harry potter: puzzles and spells