Water Sort

How to play Water Sort

Tap or click a cup, then choose a receiving cup. It must have space and either be empty or have the same top color. Each cup holds four layers. Matching exposed top layers pour together, limited by the space available.

Give each color a full cup of its own and leave the remaining cups empty. From level 3 onward, all hidden layers must also be revealed before the level is complete. A larger number of moves does not invalidate a solution, but it can reduce the star rating.

300 water sorting puzzles

The built-in level bank has 300 fixed puzzles. Completing a level unlocks the next. These are not new random or shared daily layouts: restarting a level returns to its same original colors and arrangement.

Early levels introduce two colors and empty space. Later puzzles use up to eight colors, with four layers of each color and two initially empty cups. Open Choose a level to revisit an unlocked puzzle or improve its stars.

Hidden colors from level 3

Lower colors are automatically covered with question marks from level 3. Only the exposed, revealed run can pour. Removing that run reveals the next layer, so a matching color underneath may need a second pour.

A full single-color cup can still contain an unrevealed layer. It will not finish the level until those layers have been exposed. Keep empty space available to uncover them; the game checks the reveal flags as well as the sorted colors.

Earn stars and coins for efficient solutions

The displayed goal is the level’s move target. Finish at or below it for three stars; the game gives two stars within a small margin and one star for a longer successful solution.

A new best of one, two or three stars is worth a total of 10, 30 or 50 coins. Improving a previous result pays the difference, so replaying the same best result does not repeatedly award coins. There are no cash prizes or paid coin purchases in this build.

Undo, Restart, Hint and Extra Cup items

Tools use earned coins and inventory. Undo and Restart cost 10 coins each, Hint costs 20, and Extra Cup costs 30. The purchase confirmation adds an item; click its tool again to use it. The collection menu also offers packs of 1, 5 or 10.

Undo restores the last pour and its revealed layers. Restart returns to the same puzzle and keeps earned stars, coins and unlocked levels. Extra Cup adds one empty cup, with a limit of one use in a level. A restart removes that round’s extra cup.

Hints and water sort strategy

Levels 1–2 can search for a solution from the current board. If the search cannot produce a hint in time, it does not consume a Hint item. From level 3, hints consider visible colors only and do not reveal an entire hidden solution.

Keep at least one useful empty cup, consolidate matching exposed runs, and avoid filling a receiving cup before checking what you still need to uncover. A hint is a suggested pour; you remain in control of whether to make it.

Mouse, touch, keyboard and browser progress

Select cups with mouse or touch. With a keyboard, Tab and Enter activate a cup, arrow keys move cup focus, and U, R or H use owned Undo, Restart or Hint items. Escape first clears a selected cup; otherwise it opens the pause menu.

Browser progress records the level, board, revealed layers, move history, earned coins, tool inventory, unlocked levels and best stars. A reload resumes the committed move rather than replaying a pouring animation. Local progress depends on the same game and browser storage; it is not automatically shared with another browser.

Colorful cups and relaxing sorting games

Water Sort keeps its existing colorful pantry, glass cups and water audio. You can buy and equip four table backgrounds with earned coins. The glass shape stays fixed in this version; the collection does not sell additional cup styles.

Try Fish Water Sort for short assigned-dock puzzles. Read the water sorting guide for pouring strategy, or browse other color and logic puzzles.

When to choose Fish Water Sort

Compare Fish Water Sort with this edition: Water Sort primarily checks that colors are separated into complete cups. Fish Water Sort additionally checks their assigned destinations, turning a valid color arrangement into a location-specific solution.