Color Water Sort

About Color Water Sort

Color Water Sort is a water sort puzzle: each tube holds four layers of coloured water, and you pour from tube to tube until every tube is a single colour. You can only pour onto the same colour or into an empty tube, and a pour moves the whole top band at once, so the order of your moves matters.

There are 200 hand-made levels. The first ones teach the rules with three or four tubes; by level 30 you are working with eleven tubes, and from level 101 the boards alternate between eleven and fourteen tubes with up to twelve colours. After level 200 the hardest hundred come back while the level number keeps counting. Each level allows three undos, a tube you finish gets a stopper, and if you run out of moves you can add an extra empty tube, take back three moves or skip the level, once per attempt.

Every world of ten levels is its own place: the tubes stand in a steel lab rack beside a flask and a microscope, in a driftwood rack with coral and a starfish, in a candy-cane rack next to a sweet jar and a lollipop, on bamboo, and finally in a golden rack among crystals, and finished tubes close with the world's own stopper. Solving a level pays coins, more on later levels. Coins buy background themes (Sky, Lagoon, Candy, Sunset, Midnight, Neon and Gold), Extra Undos, a Spare Tube you can add for free each level, and a Coin Bonus. The game has colour-blind friendly palettes, saves your level in the browser and runs on phones, tablets and computers with no download. If you like sorting, try Sort Match 3D or Boat Colour Match next.

Color Water Sort at a glance

Genre

Puzzle

Plays on

Phone, tablet and computer, in any modern browser

Screen

Portrait (made for phones; fits any screen)

Download

18 MB, no install

Progress

Saved in your browser; coins are shared by every TinyJar game

Price

Free (optional one-time Remove Ads)

Updated

1 November 2026

How to play Color Water Sort

1. Tap a tube to pick it up. Tap another tube to pour its top colour into it.
2. You can pour only onto the same colour or into an empty tube, and only while there is room.
3. Fill every tube with four layers of one colour to finish the level.
4. Stuck? Use undo (bottom right, three per level) or + to add an empty tube.

Controls

Computer

Click a tube to pick it up, then click the tube to pour into. Click it again to put it back.

Phone and tablet

Tap a tube to pick it up, then tap the tube to pour into. Tap it again to put it back.

Tips

• Before your first pour, find the colour that has the most layers already on top of tubes; freeing that one first usually opens up the board.
• Keep an empty tube free for as long as you can. Pouring a single layer into an empty tube spends your most valuable space, so do it only when it uncovers a colour you can finish.
• Pour onto tubes that are already mostly one colour. A tube with three matching layers needs only one more pour to close with a stopper.
• Undo only remembers your last five pours, so if a plan goes wrong, undo straight away instead of trying to fix it later.
• On the big two-row boards, finish one colour at a time instead of moving many colours a little; half-sorted tubes block each other.

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