Pour Works: Water Sort

Pour Works: Water Sort is a free water sort puzzle game for Android. You pour coloured liquid between glasses until every glass holds one colour. It has 1,170 campaign levels in nine chapters, 22 challenge boards, a real-time River mode with 560 levels and a daily challenge.

Pour Works is free to play. There are optional in-app purchases through Google Play: coin bundles, a one-time starter bundle and a double daily reward. No level is locked behind a purchase, and power-ups can be bought with coins earned by playing.

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More than 1,750: 1,170 campaign levels across nine chapters, 22 challenge boards and 560 River levels on two ladders, plus a new daily board every day.

See how the campaign is laid out.

Each of its nine chapters adds a new rule instead of only adding colours: hidden colours, glasses of two sizes, one-way drains and spouts, glasses sealed until a pour count, big boards of up to twenty-four glasses, move limits, colour keys and pipes that pour from the bottom. Every level is verified by a solver, and there is a second, real-time mode called the River.

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Yes. Levels are generated and then checked by a solver, and a level ships only if the solver has solved it. Levels with hidden colours pass a second test so that they can be won without guessing.

Three stars means you matched par, the fewest pours the level can be solved in. Par is the shortest solution a solver found for that exact board, so three stars is always possible. Finishing within three pours of par is two stars, and any solution clears the level.

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Not in the campaign. You can think about a pour for as long as you like, and the chapter with a move limit counts pours, not seconds. Only River mode runs in real time.

A real-time way to play. Part-filled glasses drift past on a river, and you fill each one from your own glasses before it gets away. A missed glass comes round again, but each miss costs a star and the third ends the run. There are 560 River levels on two ladders, and on the Drinks ladder a glass can ask for layers of colour in a set order.

Read about the River.

Yes. Every level, including the daily challenge, is stored in the game, so it plays without an internet connection. A connection is needed only for the store and for cloud save.

Yes. Liquid labels puts a number on every colour and Liquid textures gives every colour its own pattern. Both are offered on the first page of the game and are in Settings afterwards. There is also a reduced-motion setting, and the board is described glass by glass to screen readers.

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Undo takes back a pour, Hint lights up a move that still wins, Extra Glass adds a spare, and Restart is always free. There are eight power-ups in all, earned from the daily challenge and level-ups or bought with coins.

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Progress is saved on your phone as you play, including a board left half-finished. If you sign in to Play Games under Settings → Cloud save, your progress, coins and purchases are kept with your Play Games account and come back on a new phone.

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Pour Works runs on Android 8.0 or later. It is in eleven languages: English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese for Brazil and for Portugal, Japanese and Korean. You choose the language inside the game.

Yes. The game was first published as Water Sort and is now called Pour Works: Water Sort. It is the same app, and your progress carries over.