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Water SortPuzzle, Casual

Water Sort

Pour luminous reagents until every phial holds one pure colour.

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Water Sort

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About Water Sort

Pour coloured layers between glass phials until every filled vessel holds one colour. You can pour only the complete top band into an empty phial or onto the same colour.

How to play

Goal
Sort the reagents so every phial holds one colour.
How it ends
A formula is solved when every filled phial is full of a single colour. There is no way to lose; undo and restart are unlimited, but a run that used them is not recorded.
Record
The fastest first solve of each formula, and its fewest pours.
  1. Choose a phial, then choose an empty phial or one whose top reagent matches. The whole matching band pours, up to the available space.
  2. Finish with every non-empty phial full and containing a single colour.
  3. Use the Formula shelf to jump directly to any of the 120 open boards. Tier buttons at its top jump between difficulty shelves.
  4. Undo and restart are unlimited. They make the current attempt assisted, so it stays out of the time and move records.
Worked example for Water Sort
Worked example. See how the rules apply to a real position.

Controls

InputAction
Tap or clickChoose source and destination phials
Arrow keysMove keyboard focus between phials
Enter or SpaceChoose the focused phial
U / R / EscapeUndo, restart, or open the formula shelf

Good to know

All 120 formulae are open and proven completable. Sound, full motion, progress, and the current formula save in this browser.

Watch how to play

The rules, then Formula 1 played start to finish. Played by an automated player at a person's pace; the narration is a synthetic voice. English captions.

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