Play Columns III - Revenge of Columns Online

Columns III cranks up the chaos from the first two games—it's still that same jewel-matching puzzle madness, but now with way more ways to mess with your friends. You're sliding and rotating those falling gem columns, trying to line up three or more of the same color before the screen fills up. Diagonal matches feel weirdly satisfying when you pull them off.

The new magic items add some hilarious (or frustrating) twists—like suddenly flipping the entire board or forcing your opponent's next piece to be garbage. And that rising bar? Pure evil when you're on the receiving end. Versus mode gets intense fast, especially if you're playing someone who actually knows what they're doing.

It's one of those "just one more round" games where you swear you'll stop after a match, then suddenly it's 2 AM and you're still trying to beat your high score in Time Trial. The music's oddly catchy too, in that early '90s Sega way.