Happy Bucket Challenge

Happy Bucket Challenge starts from a simple premise. The bucket is sad because it is empty, and your job is to draw a line that gets liquid into it. Fill it and the bucket smiles again.

The developer leaves the method open. You are invited to come up with your own solution to each level and to think creatively, rather than hunt for one prescribed shape. What the game does keep track of is how well you did, with up to three stars per level. The developer warns that some levels look easy until you try to collect all three. The puzzles are physics-based, which means the liquid responds to the line you have drawn rather than following a set path. Lines can be drawn freely. The game is aimed at players of all ages and is presented as exercise for the mind, played in a landscape frame with mouse controls.

Click and hold the left mouse button, then move the mouse to draw a line. The liquid reacts to your line under the game's physics. Shape the line so the liquid ends up inside the empty bucket, and fill the bucket to finish the level. Each level offers up to three stars, though the requirements are not spelled out.

Since any solution that fills the bucket is accepted, there is room to try more than one idea on a level. If you finish with fewer than three stars, take the developer's warning about deceptively easy levels as a reason to go back and look for a better line.

A draw-a-line physics puzzle about filling a bucket. Landscape frame (800 by 600). The left mouse button is used to draw. The developer pitches it at all ages and mentions a three-star rating on each level.

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