The tab is the console
These are mobile web games. Add the page to your home screen if you want an icon. There is no App Store listing and no download beyond the first load.
The games shelf
Two phone-first games that live on this site. You open a tab and play. No store account. No advert. Progress stays on the device you used.
On the counter
Vcrush
Match three · the sweet shop
An eight-by-eight tray behind a strawberry counter. Swap two neighbours to line up three of the same sweet. The sweets sit still until a match, a stripe, a wrap, or a humbug actually fires.
Three thousand levels across five kinds of objective, then Sweet Tooth, an endless tray. Built for Vicie Lucas. The live phone on the right is the real game, running in this page.
The whole shelf
2 games
Vcrush is a soda-fountain sweet counter. Strawberry paper, a sky-blue ice tin, and six painted sweets that keep their own silhouette so the tray still reads in greyscale. It is not a Candy Crush clone in dress. The mechanics were studied. The shop, the names, and the art are original.
You swap two sweets that sit next to each other. Three of a kind clear. Four in a line cuts a striped sweet. An L or a T wraps one. Five in a line makes a humbug, which clears a whole flavour when you swap it. Two specials together make a bigger mess on purpose.
What a level asks for
Every level states a goal and the goal changes every single level: a target score, an order, jelly under the tray, icing on top of it, or hazelnuts to walk down to the bottom row. Finish what the level asked for and you have passed. Stars are three bands on the same run.
Every board is dealt with at least four legal moves already on it. If the tray ever runs out, it reshuffles in front of you and says so. A swap that does not match costs nothing. A run is five lives; when they are gone the run is over, and a fresh one costs one tap with nothing to wait for and nothing to buy.
The six sweets
Cherry
Lemon Drop
Mint
Blue Razz
Grape
Toffee
| Kind | Match three |
|---|---|
| Board | 8 × 8 |
| Levels | 3,000 + Sweet Tooth |
| Stars | 3 a level |
| Account | None |
| Adverts | None |
| Purchases | None |
| Lives | 5 to a run, free rebuy |
| Save | This browser only |
| Network | None after load |
| Made for | Vicie Lucas |
| Open | chris-vibes.com/vcrush |
V21 is a blackjack table that is honest about the two things most blackjack games are not. First, the rules: six decks, dealer stands on soft seventeen, blackjack pays three to two and never six to five, double on any first two, double after a split, late surrender. Second, the chart.
Basic strategy — the play with the best odds for every hand you can be dealt — is not a secret and never has been. What is hard is doing it under pressure. So the chart is not hidden behind a paywall or a tutorial: it is one tap away at all times, and the table marks every decision you make against it.
What you are actually playing for
Not the money. The bankroll is pretend and the rebuy is free, so the number in the corner that means anything is the other one: how often you played the hand the book would have. Get that into the high nineties and you are playing the best blackjack anyone can play.
The coach can lead you, mark you afterwards, or stay out of it entirely. Every cell you get wrong is counted and shown back to you on the chart as a dot, so the weak spots you see are yours rather than a generic list.
The five decisions
Hit, stand, double, split, surrender — and insurance, which the book declines every single time. Buttons are live only when the table would allow the play, and the coach is asked the same question the buttons are, so it can never advise you into something you are not allowed to do.
| Kind | Blackjack |
|---|---|
| Decks | 6, cut at 75% |
| Soft 17 | Dealer stands |
| Blackjack | Pays 3:2 |
| Double | Any two, after split |
| Split | To four hands |
| Surrender | Late |
| Coach | Lead, mark, or off |
| Count | Hi-Lo, optional |
| Account | None |
| Adverts | None |
| Purchases | None |
| Save | This browser only |
| Network | None after load |
| Open | /v21 |
House rules
Nothing to buy
No lives to refill, no coins, no battle pass, no rewarded video. If a tray or a bag goes badly, start again.
The save stays put
Stars, best scores, and run settings live in this browser. Clear the site data and the ledger goes with it. Nothing is sent to a server.
Straight answers
Do I need an account?
No. Open the game and play. There is no login and no mailing list attached to these pages.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes. Each game is laid out for a portrait phone first. A tablet or a desktop browser also works. If a tap target feels tight inside the live preview above, open the full page.
Is there a catch?
The catch is that these are small, original games on a personal site. They are free because they are not a store. They will not phone home, and they will not ask you for money.
Which one should I open first?
Vcrush if you want a level with a goal and a five-minute win. V21 if you want to get better at something — it is a real blackjack table with the strategy chart marking every decision, so the number that moves is how often you played it right.
Why is the studio homepage a different site?
chris-vibes.com is Chris Lucas's studio page for Las Vegas websites. This shelf is the games door. The two are meant to stay out of each other's way.