Ball Sort (Puzzleship)
Rate itPour balls between tubes until every colour has its own tube.
on puzzleship.com
Ball Sort starts with tubes holding mixed stacks of coloured balls. A ball can only land on the same colour or in an empty tube, and tubes have limited room. Sort every colour into its own tube; every board is generated with a solution.
About Ball Sort (Puzzleship)
The ball sort puzzle is best known on phones as an endless run of levels. Here it is a daily board in six difficulties, each guaranteed solvable, so a dead end always means the order was wrong. Your move count is tracked, and undo and restart are there when you run out of legal pours.
Empty tubes are the whole resource. They are the only place an inconvenient ball can go, and spending the last one on a harmless-looking move is how most boards get stuck. Finishing a colour takes that tube out of play, and before digging for a buried ball it pays to count what sits on top of it.
Puzzleship publishes six boards of Ball Sort a day, graded from very easy to ultra hard. Each day's boards are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and go live at 13:00 UTC, though the page's countdown text says midnight in your own time zone; earlier days stay playable in the archive. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.
How to play Ball Sort (Puzzleship)
- Open Ball Sort and pick one of the day's six boards.
- Tap a tube to lift its top ball.
- Tap another tube to drop the ball onto the same colour or into an empty tube.
- Keep going until every colour fills a tube of its own.
- Undo or restart if you run out of moves.
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Tips
- Keep one empty tube as working space for as long as you can.
- Finish a colour as soon as you can.
- Count the balls above a buried one before you start digging.
- Undo early when a pour leaves no legal moves.
Questions
How many Ball Sort puzzles are there each day?
Six, graded from very easy to ultra hard.
When do new Ball Sort puzzles appear?
At 13:00 UTC. The page says the next set comes at midnight your time, but each day's set is scheduled for 13:00 UTC: at 00:56 UTC on 20 October the 19 October boards (#1023) were still the current ones, with the countdown running to 13:00 UTC.
Can I play earlier days?
Yes. Puzzleship keeps past puzzles in an archive.
Is it free?
Yes. The boards play free with no sign-in, beside banner ads; a Puzzleship premium plan removes the ads.
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