I was wondering if there was a word to describe when you align four or more pill segments/viruses of the same color, making them disappear. In reading the Dr. Mario wikipedia page, there doesn't seem to be a single word for this. So for the sake of discussion, I'll call this thing a "match". If there is already an established word, let me know.

I was thinking about combos. Eliminating two sets of four (or more) is fairly common, but getting a combo of three or more via falling pill segments is, for how I play, very rare. I am not aware of ever getting a combo of more than three, and I only recall a three-combo happening once, although I imagine it could have happened more than once in the several hundred games I've played this year and I wasn't really thinking about it.

Has anyone gotten a combo greater than three matches? If so, do you have a video of it? It might be a fun challenge to see how many cascading matches one could get on a single pill.

The instruction booklet refers to the elimination of two or more rows/columns as "continuous capsule elimination". So I suppose eliminating one row/column would be "capsule elimination" or just "elimination". However, I think most people simply call it a combo when there are 2 or more, and "match" seems fine to me for describing a singular instance.

In multiplayer, doing a combo of 2 matches drops 2 pill segments on the opponents screen, 3 matches drops 3, and 4 drops 4. You will never get a bigger drop than 4 even with many more matches. Therefore it is a good idea to be comfortable with making 4 match combos if you are playing multiplayer.

Here's a video where I do some combos with well over 3 matches: