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# Gift Drop
> Gift-fed watermelon merge — the whole room builds the board
**Category:** Co-op · **Players:** gift-native · **Status:** Beta
Gift Drop is in beta — details may change.
A cooperative fruit-merge game fed entirely by the room. Viewers send gifts (and
likes) and each one drops a fruit into the queue; the streamer places it in the
jar, and two fruits of the same tier merge into the next one up — cherry to
strawberry to grape, all the way to a watermelon. There are no teams and no
elimination — the whole chat is building one board and one shared score.
## Gameplay
Send a gift to drop a fruit into the queue — bigger gifts drop bigger
fruit. Likes count too: enough of them drop a fruit on their own.
The streamer aims and drops each queued fruit into the jar with their mouse.
Two fruits of the same tier touch and merge into the next tier up, scoring
as they go. Keep the jar from overflowing.
## How merging works
Same-tier fruits combine into the next fruit up an eleven-step chain, from cherry
to watermelon — and every merge adds to the shared score.
* **Gifts drop fruit.** Each gift adds a fruit to the queue; its tier scales with
the gift's value (see [Gifts](#gifts)).
* **Likes feed it too.** Every so-many likes drops a cherry, and a bigger like
streak drops a random-tier fruit — so non-gifting viewers still play.
* **Same tier merges up.** Two matching fruits combine into the next one and
score; the chain runs eleven tiers, cherry → watermelon.
* **Mind the overflow.** Fruit piling above the jar's line ends the run, so the
room has to keep merging as it feeds.
## Configuration
| Option | Values | Default |
| ----------------------- | ------------------------------ | ------------------ |
| **Gift → fruit tier** | map gifts to fruit sizes | Cost-based default |
| **Likes per fruit** | likes that drop a cherry | 50 |
| **Likes per big fruit** | likes that drop a random fruit | 500 |
| **Timer** | countdown, extended by scoring | 180s |
| **Skin** | gift images or classic fruit | Gift images |
**Gift → fruit tier.** Which gifts drop which fruit; unmapped gifts fall back to
a value-based bracket.
**Timer.** The round's countdown — every 50 points banks 10 more seconds, so an
active room keeps the clock alive. Set it to zero for a pure survival run.
**Skin.** Show the gifts themselves as the merging pieces, or the classic fruit.
## Layout
1. **Marquee** — game title and how-to hint.
2. **Drop queue** — the fruits waiting to be placed, next up first.
3. **Jar** — the play field where fruit stacks and merges.
4. **Gift strip** — the gift-to-fruit mapping.
5. **Leaderboard** — top gifters this session, by fruit sent.
The game moves through **Lobby → Playing → Game over**.
## Gifts
Gift Drop is **gift-native** — sending gifts is how you play. Each gift drops a
fruit into the queue, and its tier scales with the gift's value: a cheap gift
drops a cherry, a premium one drops further up the chain. The host can map
specific gifts to specific fruit tiers, or let the value-based default decide.
Likes feed the board too, so the whole room contributes.
## Scoring
* Gift Drop is **cooperative** — every merge adds to one shared board score, and
the goal is to beat the room's best run rather than each other.
* Each viewer's contribution is tracked, and the top gifter is highlighted on the
results card alongside the session's best score.
* Contributions feed the per-streamer tally behind
[avatar ring tiers](/games/leaderboards), tracked per streamer.