How to Play Ball Sort: Rules, Strategy & Free Levels
Ball Sort is a satisfying colour-sorting puzzle. Tubes are stacked with coloured balls, and you move the top ball from one tube to another until every tube holds a single colour. A ball can only land on a ball of the same colour or in an empty tube, so the spare tubes and your move order are the keys to solving it.
- Skill: Sorting logic & planning
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- Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
How to play Ball Sort
- Move the top ball only. You can pick up just the topmost ball of a tube.
- Match or empty. A ball may move onto a ball of the same colour or into an empty tube.
- Tubes have a limit. No tube can hold more than its capacity of balls.
- Sort every colour. The level is solved when each tube contains one colour, or is empty.
Ball Sort strategy & tips
- Keep at least one empty tube free as breathing room; filling them all too early leads to deadlocks.
- Pour runs of the same colour together in one go rather than scattering them.
- Plan a few moves ahead before committing — undo and retry when a colour gets buried.
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Ball Sort FAQ
What is the goal of Ball Sort?
To rearrange the balls so every tube holds balls of only one colour, using the empty space and spare tubes to sort them.
When can a ball not be moved?
When the target tube is full, or its top ball is a different colour — a ball only stacks on the same colour or into an empty tube.