# Color Sort

> Pour the colors until each tube holds just one.

Pour each color into its own tube. Today's rack is one puzzle for everyone. Larger racks open as you sort them.

- Play: https://sidekickarcade.com/play/color-sort/ (in the browser, phone or computer, free, no sign-up needed)
- Neighborhood: [Puzzle Park](https://sidekickarcade.com/category/puzzle/index.md)
- Controls: Tap a tube, or arrows and Space
- Best on: portrait screens
- Coins for goals: 3 per 1 stars, up to 9 a run

## How to play

1. Tap a tube, then another. The top color pours onto the same color, or into an empty tube. On a keyboard, arrows move and Space pours.
2. Sort the rack so each color fills one tube. Every pour counts. Fewer pours, inside the time, earns more stars.
3. Today's rack is one puzzle for everyone. The first clear of the day grows your streak. Practice opens a larger rack after four clears.
4. Undo puts the last pour back. Hint pours one step and counts an extra pour. Pause stops the clock.

## Tips

- Pour onto a matching color when it finishes a tube.
- Hold one empty tube back. The second empty tube is the one you spend.
- Undo puts the color back. The pour still counts.
- A hint pours one step and counts a second pour, so save it for a real jam.

## Questions

### Is it free?

Yes. It is free in the browser, with no download and no sign-up needed. Coins are for fun and can never be bought.

### Is today's rack the same for everyone?

Yes. Today's rack is one puzzle of six colors, from the date. Practice racks are your own, and they get larger as you sort them.

### What earns three stars?

Sort the rack inside the pour line and the time for that size. Extra pours still sort it, for one star. Pause stops the clock.

### What if I get stuck?

Undo steps back. Hint pours one step that still leads to a sorted rack. Neither one ends the run.

### Can I play on a phone?

Yes. Tap a tube to pick it up, then tap another to pour. Hint and Undo sit under the rack, so they never cover a tube.

## Achievements

- **First rack** (bronze, 15 coins): Sort your first rack.
- **Today's rack** (bronze, 15 coins): Sort today's rack.
- **Three days** (bronze, 25 coins): Sort a rack three days in a row.
- **Sharp pour** (bronze, 30 coins): Sort a rack inside the pour line and the time.
- **A full week** (silver, 50 coins): Keep a 7-day streak.
- **The rack** (silver, 40 coins): Sort a rack of six colors.
- **The cabinet** (silver, 60 coins): Sort a cabinet of seven colors.
- **Forty racks** (gold, 80 coins): Sort 40 racks.
- **A month of racks** (gold, 120 coins): Keep a 30-day streak.
- **Ten sharp** (gold, 80 coins): Sort 10 racks inside the pour line and the time.
- **Two hundred** (diamond, 200 coins): Sort 200 racks.
- **Rack Keeper** (diamond, 300 coins): Keep a 100-day streak. Earns the title "Rack Keeper".

## More to play

- [Petal Pairs](https://sidekickarcade.com/play/petal-pairs/index.md): Match the flower pairs and watch the whole garden bloom. (Puzzle Park)
- [Memory Match](https://sidekickarcade.com/play/memory-match/index.md): Flip the cards and find every pair. (Puzzle Park)
- [Mahjong Solitaire](https://sidekickarcade.com/play/mahjong-solitaire/index.md): Match free tiles to clear the stack. (Puzzle Park)