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Pocha Moonlight: Sort Puzzle Turns Night-Market Skewers Into a Mobile Matching Challenge | The Switchboard

Original unedited Pocha Moonlight Sort Puzzle iPhone gameplay screenshot, level 15, supplied by developer Pong Studio

Pocha Moonlight: Sort Puzzle takes an everyday food-sorting puzzle into a moonlit street-food stall. Developed by Pong Studio, the free-to-download mobile game is available on iOS and Android, with advertisements and optional in-app purchases.

The idea is simple: move food skewers onto available trays and combine three matching items to clear them before the timer runs out. Later stages add frozen ingredients, stacked trays, locked spaces and other obstacles. The studio also describes boosters, daily missions and weekly leaderboards.

How the night-market puzzle works

Each stage begins with food ingredients occupying a set of trays and grill spaces. Players move ingredients into open spots, trying to put three matching skewers together so they disappear and free up room. Clearing the board before the countdown reaches zero is the goal, but simply moving the first matching ingredient you see can block the next move.

Pocha Moonlight screenshot showing food skewers on trays at level fifteen
Pong Studio’s original iPhone gameplay screenshot, level 15. Provided for editorial use by the developer.

As the levels progress, Pong Studio says players encounter frozen food that needs repeated matching to thaw, stacked trays that hide food beneath a top layer, and locked trays that force a more deliberate route through the puzzle. Boosters can pause the clock, rearrange ingredients, clear a matching set or break ice.

Levels, leaderboards and the cost of playing

The developer describes hundreds of levels alongside daily missions and weekly leaderboards. The download is free, but the game contains advertising and optional in-app purchases; any of its boosters or rewards should be understood in that context rather than presented as a fully free, ad-free experience.

Pocha Moonlight level twenty screenshot with trays, matching food skewers and a timed puzzle
Pong Studio’s original iPhone gameplay screenshot, level 20. Provided for editorial use by the developer.

Where to play and watch

Download on the App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android. The studio has also published official gameplay footage from several levels. Both the footage and screenshots come directly from Pong Studio.

Our interest here is the way a familiar matching puzzle changes when visible food stacks conceal later moves and time becomes part of the decision. We have not independently completed or scored this game, so this is a discovery listing, not a recommendation based on hands-on testing.

The screenshots accompanying this discovery feature are original iPhone captures of public-build levels 15 and 20 supplied by Pong Studio. This is an independent Switchboard discovery listing, not a scored review or a claim that we have completed the game.


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