Mochi Sort

About Mochi Sort

Mochi Sort is a tap-to-pour sorting puzzle built around jars of glossy, jelly-like mochi balls. Each board hands you a few jars packed with scrambled colours plus one or two spare empty jars to manoeuvre in. Tap a jar and its top run of matching mochi lifts and glows; tap a second jar and that run pours across - but only if the target is empty, or its top ball is the same colour and it still has room. A jar can hold four, five, or six balls depending on the level, and the puzzle is solved the moment every jar is either empty or filled top to bottom with one single colour.

What keeps the untangling honest is how the boards are made. Every level is constructed from an already-solved arrangement and then shuffled apart by a long sequence of reverse pours, so a winning order always exists - Mochi Sort never serves a board that cannot be cleared. The same logic carries through the trickier mechanics: a deadlock failsafe quietly thaws ice, frees a lock, or drops a colour key if the only remaining moves ever vanish, and a missed step is never punished. The Undo button (or the Z key) rewinds one pour, and Reset (or R) rebuilds the level exactly as it began, so you can probe a few orders and back out freely.

The journey runs across 28 hand-tuned levels grouped into seven themed worlds of four levels each: Sakura Meadow, Sunny Beach, Mint Forest, Ocean Deep, Starry Night, Frost Peak, and the Crystal Vault. Each world introduces a new wrinkle and a fresh painted backdrop, and the squeeze comes mainly from how many spare empty jars you are given - sometimes just one. Worlds three through seven layer in locked jars, buried face-down balls, rainbow wild balls, frozen ice, and colour-keyed jars, building toward a final Crystal Vault gauntlet that stacks every twist at once.

Clear all 28 and an Endless mode takes over with freshly generated boards. Endless does not start easy: it picks up right at the post-gauntlet difficulty - tall six-ball jars with up to nine colours - and turns every mechanic on from the very first generated level, then keeps ramping. Finishing a level always awards the full three stars; there is no timer, move limit, or score chasing you, just the quiet satisfaction of watching a messy rack of jars resolve into neat columns of colour.

How to play Mochi Sort

1. Tap a jar to pick it up - the unbroken run of same-coloured mochi at the top lifts and a glowing ring appears around the jar.
2. Tap a second jar to pour. The run only lands if that jar is empty, or its top ball is the same colour and there is room left.
3. Tap the lifted jar a second time to set it back down, or tap a different non-empty jar to switch your pick to that one.
4. Use the spare empty jars as scratch space to peel colours apart and recombine them.
5. Keep pouring until every jar is either completely empty or full of one single colour - that clears the level and awards three stars.
6. Tap Undo to rewind a single pour, or Reset to rebuild the board, then tap Next to move on to the following level.

Controls

Tips & strategy

• Empty jars are your only real workspace - some levels give you just one, so never fill an empty jar unless the pour genuinely unsticks something.
• Hunt for a colour you can finish off soon; completing one colour empties the jar it was hogging and opens up a new buffer.
• Pour a colour onto a jar that already shows that colour on top before you ever resort to dumping it in an empty jar.
• A frozen ball can't be moved and also pins everything stacked on it; ice thaws one notch per pour, so make other moves and it frees itself within a few turns.
• Locked jars stay sealed until you complete the colour shown on their little hint dot, so read that dot and plan a path to finishing that colour first.
• A keyed jar wears a coloured band across its mouth and accepts only that one colour - not even a rainbow ball slips in - so treat it as a dedicated home for its hue.
• Buried face-down balls show a question mark; pouring off the ball above them flips them face-up, so peel cautiously rather than committing to a long chain.
• If a board feels wedged, Undo a couple of pours instead of resetting - the real mistake is usually just one move back.

Game features

• Tap-to-pour colour sorting with springy, glossy mochi that wobble in their jars as you pour.
• Jars of varying depth - four, five, or six balls tall - so later levels demand deeper planning.
• 28 hand-tuned levels across seven painted worlds: Sakura Meadow, Sunny Beach, Mint Forest, Ocean Deep, Starry Night, Frost Peak, and Crystal Vault.
• Five stacking mechanics that arrive world by world: locked jars, hidden face-down balls, rainbow wild balls, frozen ice balls, and colour-keyed jars.
• Every board is reverse-pour generated to be guaranteed solvable, with a deadlock failsafe that relaxes a mechanic if moves ever run out.
• Endless mode that begins at the toughest curated difficulty and keeps generating harder, all-mechanic boards.
• Undo (or Z) rewinds pour by pour and Reset (or R) restarts the level, with no penalty for experimenting.
• No timer, move limit, or scoreboard - every clear simply awards three stars.
• Synthesized chimes for pours, completed colours, and wins, with a mute toggle in settings.
• Unlocked levels and earned stars save to your browser, so you pick up where you left off on the same device.

Pouring Mochi Until The Colours Settle

Most sorting puzzles measure you; Mochi Sort just keeps you company. Tap a jar and its top run of matching mochi rises with a glowing ring around the glass, then tap a second jar and those squishy balls hop over the rim in a little arc, splash a few particles, and drop into place while both jars wobble on a spring. Each ball in a pour rings a slightly higher note, so a four-ball cascade plays its own tiny rising phrase. Nothing counts down, nothing scores you, and a full clear simply lands the three-note win chime over every jar at once.

The honesty is baked into how boards are built. Each level grows out of a solved arrangement and is un-sorted by a long chain of reverse pours, so the forward solution is mathematically guaranteed to exist. The shipped board is even checked for at least one legal opening move before you ever see it. If your own pour order paints you into a corner, there is no loss screen to dread: Undo (or Z) peels back one pour, Reset (or R) rebuilds the exact starting rack, and a quiet failsafe thaws ice, frees a lock, or drops a colour-key only if every legal move genuinely vanishes. Stall for five seconds and a bouncing hand points at one sensible next pour, never the whole answer.

The teaching is spread cleanly across twenty-eight levels in seven painted worlds of four. Sakura Meadow and Sunny Beach are pure pouring; Mint Forest seals a jar shut behind a hint dot until you finish that colour elsewhere; Ocean Deep buries balls face-down under a question mark that only flips once you lift what sits on top. Starry Night adds rainbow wilds that ride any colour, Frost Peak freezes balls that pin everything above them and thaw one notch per pour, and the Crystal Vault keys whole jars to a single hue, marked by a bold colour band rather than a confusing padlock, before stacking every twist into one finale.

It reads as a wind-down toy as much as a brain-teaser, and the real pressure is quietly geometric: jars deepen from four balls to six, colours climb toward eight, and some levels hand you a single spare jar as your only scratch space. On a wide screen the rack stays clustered rather than sprawling, keeping the board legible for small hands. Clear all twenty-eight and Endless takes over right at that gauntlet difficulty, every mechanic live from the first generated board and the seed shifting each level, climbing toward six-ball jars of nine colours with no finish line in sight.