Play Columns Crown (E)(Menace) Online

Columns Crown came out on the Game Boy Advance in 2005, published by Sega. It was part of that wave of puzzle games that felt perfectly suited for quick sessions on the handheld, a straightforward concept with enough depth to keep you coming back.

You control the falling columns of colored gems, rotating them to create matches of three or more in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The main goal is to clear the board stage by stage to recover the stolen crown jewels. A couple of its key mechanics include the Crown Jewels themselves, which act as special blocks that can only be cleared by matching adjacent gems, and stages that sometimes introduce rule changes, like requiring you to clear all jewels of a specific color. The pacing is methodical but the difficulty ramps up steadily, demanding more foresight with each new screen. It feels like a calm, focused test of your pattern recognition.