Color Sort Party

Color Sort Party has a holiday look: you can play against four tropical backgrounds and dress your tubes in up to 18 different styles. Underneath the decoration is the familiar task of pouring coloured liquid between tubes until each colour is gathered in one place.

You pour into a tube where the colours match, and the developer's warning is to avoid getting stuck, meaning a position where no useful pour is left. Three boosters exist for that situation. Going by their names, One Step Back reverses a move, Extra Tube adds another container to work with, and Level Skip lets you pass a level you cannot solve. The developer does not explain how boosters are earned or how many you get. The levels become more challenging as you go, though no total is given. The tubes and backgrounds fill a landscape frame.

Select a tube, then choose another tube to pour its liquid into, matching colour to colour. Repeat until each tube holds one colour and the level is complete. If you run out of good moves, use a booster: step back, add a tube or skip the level. Backgrounds and tube styles can be changed for looks.

The developer's own advice is to be careful not to get stuck, so look at where each pour leaves you before making it. One Step Back is the natural fix for a single bad pour. Keep Extra Tube for positions where no tube can take anything.

A liquid sorting puzzle with cosmetic options. Its tropical scenes are in landscape format. There are four tropical backgrounds, up to 18 tube styles and three named boosters. No level count is stated, and the instructions do not name an input device.

Water Sort Master pairs Undo and Extra Flasks power-ups with themes and bottle styles of its own. Hoop Sort Fever has a near match for this booster set, undo, add pole and skip level, using hoops in place of liquid.