Instructions
Shelf Sort
A cosy tidy-up with new rules every level. The shelves are labelled; read them top to bottom and put each item on the first shelf it fits. From level four the shop re-labels the shelves half way through.
- Year
- 2024
- Era
- Daily Puzzle
- Genre
- Puzzle / Tidy-up
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Left/Right choose an item in the tray, Up/Down choose a shelf, Space puts it there.
- Keys 1 to 4 put the chosen item straight on that shelf.
- Esc pauses.
On touch
- Tap an item to choose it (the front one is chosen already), then tap a shelf.
- Or drag an item onto a shelf.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
Six levels, 78 items: by colour, by kind, by size, then mixed rules. The first shelf whose label an item meets wins and the last shelf is always "the rest", so every item has exactly one right shelf (a test re-reads every generated level against a second implementation and checks that no shelf is left empty). A right shelf pays 40 plus 10 per item in your streak (up to 50); a wrong shelf costs 30 and the streak, and the item stays put. A tidy level pays 100 plus up to 250 for speed. Levels, items and labels come from the seed, so the daily shop is the same for everyone.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1500
- 21,200
- 32,000
- 43,000
- 54,000
- 65,000
- 76,000
- 87,000
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Daily Puzzle era, 2020–2026
One shared puzzle a day and a result worth passing on, in calm colour with soft, rounded edges.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
