If you haven't yet encountered the small Japanese game that swept across Twitch streams, YouTube clips, and phone screens worldwide, here's your gentle warning: it looks too simple to be addictive. And yet, here we are. The premise is almost laughably straightforward. You drop fruit into an enclosed box. Two identical fruits touching each other merge into a bigger fruit. Cherry becomes strawberry. Strawberry becomes grape. Grape becomes dekopon. And so the chain goes, climbing through el...

  If you haven't yet encountered the small Japanese game that swept across Twitch streams, YouTube clips, and phone screens worldwide, here's your gentle warning: it looks too simple to be addictive. And yet, here we are. The premise is almost laughably straightforward. You drop fruit into an enclosed box. Two identical fruits touching each other merge into a bigger fruit. Cherry becomes strawberry. Strawberry becomes grape. Grape becomes dekopon. And so the chain goes, climbing through el...