History VideoGame / HarryPotterPuzzlesAndSpells

* AntiPoopSocking: You only get a set number of lives, although you can bank up to 15 extra lives as you advance through the game. Each life regenerates after a set amount of time.

* AdvancingWallOfDoom: Devil's Snare will spread into squares next to it unless you take out at least one overgrown square with a match or item.

!!Examples:

** Matching 5 gems in a 3x2 L-shape creates a Bombastic Bomb which blows up a 3x3 space. Swapping two side-by-side Bombs blows up a 5x5 space.

* LevelAte: In some stages, parts of the board are covered by stacks of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, which must be cleared away as a win condition. The game will announce the flavors of the beans as you clear them, along with a crunching sound and an occasional "Mmmm!"

*** Dropping a Lockhart icon to the bottom of the screen causes a number of photos of Lockhart to appear on the board; these cover a 2x2 area and can hide items.

*** If a Lucius icon reaches the top of the board, Lucius Malfoy will cause a handful of gems to turn into fireballs which must be cleared with items or adjacent matches. However, if the Lucius icon is dropped to the bottom of the screen, it will turn into two Winged Keys.
** Some of the prank boxes you can get from other teams have detrimental effects. The Dungbomb will reduce your assist creature's meter by 10, while the Chattering Teeth will eat an item on the board.

* NoticeThis: If you let the game sit long enough, gems that make a playable move will highlight themselves and move slightly. Items will also do this if they are the only available move.

[[caption-width-right:350:''VideoGame/CandyCrush'' meets ''Literature/HarryPotter'']]

''VideoGame/CandyCrush'' meets ''Literature/HarryPotter''.

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* LevelAte: In some stages, parts of the board are covered by stacks of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, which must be cleared away as a win condition. The game will announce the flavors of the beans as you clear them.

** Matching a 2x2 or 2x3 group of gems creates a Winged Key which will home in on something needed to clear the round and strike it. If two or more keys are beside each other, swapping any two will launch all of them plus one extra. If a key is swapped with a Severing Surge or Bombastic Bomb, they merge, float to somewhere else on the board, and then go off.
** Matching 4 gems in a line creates a Severing Surge which will clear all the gems in its row or column. If two Surges are beside each other, swapping them clears the row and column where they meet. Swapping a Severing Surge and a Bombastic Bomb has the same effect as swapping two Surges, but also clears the gems in the two adjacent rows and columns.

** Matching 5 or more gems in a row creates a Charmed Bag which will remove all the gems of one color from the board. If it's beside an item, swapping it and the item will turn all the gems of one color into that item, which will immediately activate. If two Charmed Bags are beside each other, swapping them together clears the gems on the board.
* FallingBlocks: The gems and most character icons items drop from the top of the board, although in some rounds, they travel through a Floo network and drop in other areas of the screen.

* HolidayMode: Around Christmastime, the game's opening screen will show something Christmas-themed from the HP series. For instance, in 2021 the opening screen shows Harry, Ron and Molly standing together in front of a fireplace and a snow-covered Christmas tree.

The game is a MatchThreeGame in which each puzzle has a set number of moves to complete. Gems of various colors are swapped to remove them from the board, as well as creating special items when certain combinations are matched. Additionally, special obstacles are added to many boards which must have a set number of matches made around them to clear, sometimes triggering other obstacles to be added. Several characters also appear as icons which, if dropped to a place where they can be removed, will trigger some effect on the board. For instance, Harry's icon causes a number of gems to turn into a needed color, while Dobby's causes some gems to turn into random items and Hagrid's turns four gems into Severing Surges.

** Matching a 2x2 or 2x3 group of gems creates a Winged Key which will home in on something needed to clear the round and strike it. If two or more keys are beside each other, swapping any two will launch all of them plus one extra. If a key is swapped with a Severing Surge or bomb, they merge, float to somewhere else on the board, and then go off.
** Matching 4 gems in a line creates a Severing Surge which will clear all the gems in its row or column. If two Surges are beside each other, swapping them clears the row and column where they meet.
** Matching 5 gems in a 3x2 L-shape creates a bomb which blows up a 3x3 space. Swapping two side-by-side bombs blows up a 5x5 space.

* StuffBlowingUp: Along with the bombs:

** Hitting dragon eggs enough times will cause them to hatch. The baby dragon will then burn the shell, causing an explosion the same size as two bombs swapped together.

* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Perfect - the player is essentially progressing through each film in the series by completing puzzles. Also, as the levels progress, game mechanics related to the plot point from each movie that a level is associated with are introduced. For instance, when the levels start to cover ''Chamber of Secrets'', one level is themed around Lockhart's first appearance as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and introduces Cornish pixies which have to be knocked out and collected as a win condition. Much later, a level themed around Harry's fight with the Basilisk introduces the Basilisk as a board obstacle.

*** After the first Basilisk is cleared from the board, subsequent Basilisks will petrify a handful of gems when they show up. Like the fireballs Lucius creates, these stones must be cleared with items.