It might be good to restrict this to non-Bonus Cells to not make Bonus Cells too easy to get

Good point. I changed it to “any Plain Cells”.

“any 5 Plain Cells”, I meant

“(which consist of a number of Coins and optionally a number of some or all of: Lemons, Oranges, Kiwis, Grapes, Cherries, Stars)”

cost is not allowed to be a multi-match bonus

I also worry that this could be used to generate a lot of gravity assists and chain into getting even bigger multi-match bonuses, but only if you’re willing to really analyse the gameboard. So probably a soft against even if you fix the cost issue

“but only if you’re willing to really analyse the gameboard”

Sounds like a justification for the payoff to me. If you make the mental effort, you can reap the reward.

I changed the cost from Multi Match Bonus to 3 Coins. So now, it’s the price of giving up any other Turn Actions that cost Costs on your turn in order to perform Fruit Juicer.

The scenario of setting up gravity assists to gain an even bigger Multi Match Bonus will thus be trickier with Rotate and other Turn Actions that cost Coins being taken off the table for most turns.

maybe make it so you optionally could pay a lemon and a kiwi to remove both lemons and kiwis from the board?

That seems to swing things the other way, where for the price of 3 Coins you can remove multiple fruit types at once. Potentially spending one of each type of fruit at once removes every fruit from the board.

Well I guess it’s not every fruit, just 5 of each type you spent. Hmm…

Would you still only get 1 Match even if you removed multiple fruit types?

I ran out of time to edit it any further, but if someone wants to enhance it with a follow up Proposal, that’s fine with me.

to be clear, I was thinking you still only remove 5 cells. but if you spend a lemon and an orange you could remove 3 lemons and 2 oranges or 1 lemon and 4 oranges rather than having to onyl do 5 lemons or 3 oranges.

but that could be added later