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Tube Tidy in play

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Instructions

Tube Tidy

Pour coloured layers between glass tubes until each one holds a single colour. Five puzzles per run, each checked to be solvable, with stars for beating par.

Year
2018
Era
Indie Pocket
Genre
Puzzle / Sort
Play Tube Tidy

Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.

How to play

  • Click a tube, then the tube to pour into.
  • Arrows move, Space picks and pours, X undoes, Enter restarts the puzzle.
  • P to pause.

On touch

  • Tap a tube, then tap where to pour.

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

The five puzzles come from the seed (the same five for everyone on a given day) and each ships with a solver-checked par. Undo and restart work, at a cost in points. Layers carry small shapes as well as colours.

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Target scores

  1. 1200
  2. 2400
  3. 3600
  4. 4800
  5. 51,000
  6. 61,150
  7. 71,280
  8. 81,380

Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.

The Indie Pocket era, 2015–2019

Flat pastel colour, chunky friendly shapes and a hop that squashes when it lands: short runs that fit in a pocket.

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High scores

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