Puzzle Bandits – Tips, Tricks, Cheats, and Strategy Guide

Puzzle Bandits is a new puzzle RPG for the iOS and Android platforms. You play as a band of three heroes whose goal is to quest through a number of enemies with attacks that are activated using a match-three system, as well as to duke it out with other players. The unique factor here comes in the form of each stage being a competition against the enemy, whether they’re PvP or PvE. Read on for some tips and tricks for Puzzle Bandits!

When you pick up a piece to drag it around, every piece that you drag it over will move one space. Take advantage of this. Pick up a piece and drag it around in a strategic manner so that it ends up rolling over as many pieces as possible and making as many combinations of three or more as possible.

The more matches that you make, the higher your damage multiplier for every match that you make in that round will be, to the tune of an extra 10% damage or so for each combo. Use the above piece-dragging trick to make as many combos as you can, and don’t underestimate the power of random combos being made when new pieces drop, as well.

Break any piece that has a +1 next to it, and make more +1, +2, etc. pieces using the plus sign icon, which adds that multiplier to any piece next to it (think Farm Heroes Saga for the mechanics to this one). However, be careful that you don’t end up giving your enemy a free combo use. If their turn comes next, only use this next to pieces which the enemy doesn’t have.

Make smart use of your leftover heroes by sacrificing them. Sacrifice causes the old hero to disappear and to be used for powering up the gaining hero. If they are of the same element, then that provides an even bigger boost, of about double the experience points as usual.

The five piece bonus works whether you do a T-shaped, + shaped, L-shaped or a straight across combo – the same effect happens every time. Making a huge match of 6 or more pieces will do even more damage to every enemy.

Pay attention to the elementals of all of the enemies and all of your characters. Fire beats plant, plant beats water and water beats fire. If you know you’re going into an area dominated by one element (e.g. fire) you can specialize, but in general it is best to stick to a good mix of all of the elements.