Haro/Hunting

Hunting is the best practice; by hunting you can develop an eye for quick recognition of tiles and the angles they can reach each other from. But there can be a lot of tiles to keep an eye on, and some pitfalls to avoid.

Often you will see matching tiles close to each other that look temptingly easy, but collecting them could leave you without one to clear another match from a crucial bottleneck. If you see three together, it's safer to seek out the fourth and clear a line to it before collecting them all. If you see many groups of three along one side, it's far better to work from another direction and leave them for later.

You'll also often have to make decisions between whether to work along the outside of the board, or dig a path through the center. With the center open, you have many more tiles exposed to potential matches, and your chances of clearing the board without getting stuck are much better. On the other hand, an open center grows wider as you play, and spreads the tiles out, slowing down your searching when you get down to the last ones. If you're playing for record-breaking times, circling around the outside and keeping your tiles tightly grouped will help.