Pour

Puzzle · plays in your browser, no download

Pour the liquid from tube to tube until each one holds a single colour. Always the whole block, never a drop.

Where it comes from

The water-sorting puzzle that appeared on phones a few years ago and spread fast, because it needs no explaining at all: anybody who has ever poured a drink knows the rule before being told. Ours are all solvable, which the free ones mostly are not.

How to play

Sort the liquid so that every tube holds one colour only.
And you always pour the whole block on top that fits — never a drop. That is what makes it a puzzle.
↺ undoes as much as you like, ⟳ at the top starts this one again.
Every set is solvable: none of them needs a lucky guess. Three stars means eight colours.

What makes this one different

You always pour the whole block that fits, never a drop, and that is what makes it a puzzle rather than a fiddle. Every set can be sorted and none of them needs a lucky guess. The second number is the length of one solution, not the shortest one — beating it is fair game.

Tap a tube to pick it up and it lifts, so you always know where you are pouring from. You can only pour onto the same colour or into an empty tube, and undo takes back as much as you like. Three stars is eight colours, which is where keeping an empty tube free stops being optional.

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