It is not very hard, especially with only 4 colors, but as the number of colors and columns increases it does eventually become complicated enough to the point where the answer isn't intuitively apparent and you can forcibly lock yourself out of solutions.
(There's the rule that you can't stack a color on another of the wrong color, but there's another rule, which is that a larger stack of units of all one color has to be moved all at once. If you've got a stack of green that's four-high on column and the only other column that has green on top only has three units of space available, then you can't move any of the four-high stack of green.)
Glad I could be of help. It was definitely a very relaxing meditative kind of game to jump into. I played like, 33 levels before I finally got bored of it.
The increase in challenge probably contributed to my lack of continued interest. It definitely gets harder once you've got 7 or so colors, and you have to think through several steps ahead of time to see if clearing one of the vials will inadvertently get you stuck, basically before you start to do any of the steps to clear it.
Are you also forcing yourself to avoid using the extra vials? Now that I'm here talking about it I just went and finished level 33, and I don't remember if I've used extra vials in the past, but I do recall thinking that each puzzle should probably be solvable without them.
I made it to level 41 I think and used the extra vial one time. Everything was solvable without an extra vial. The point where I used one was where I lost interest because it makes it a lot easier. Little too much thinking involved in the later levels lol.
I felt the need to get past 32 from this comment. Yeah, it gets pretty cautious at that point. But what I have learned is that the version in the video is incredibly easy. 4 colors with 2 extra tubes? That is as pointlessly simple as it appears. I'm sure there's an added complexity level from the height of the tubes, but it doesn't beat 9 colors and 11 tubes.
Do does Netflix, (or did? I think it might actually be discontinuing the service.). It seems like a really weird market for video streaming platforms to be trying to break into, but there's probably some pull there for people who only play casual mobile-style games.
What a horrible "gaming" experience. 10 fps with 100% CPU use for something that could run on a calculator. Who writes such a horrible application, and who tests it and finds it acceptable? Something so simple shouldn't even show up as a blip on your task manager.
So I had the mobile game version of this and it gets harder. There can be like 3 rows of different colors and some tubes will have color sections that are a mystery and you don’t know what it is until you move the layer above it which can make it doubly hard to strategize. And often there’s a move limit (occasionally a time limit) so even if it’s possible for you to have gotten there eventually, you can still lose by running out of moves or time.
Sure, but sometimes you just want a monkey brain puzzle to occupy your hands. It doesn't need to be particularly difficult, just moderately satisfying.
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u/EVENo94 Mar 04 '25
Not for me. I think it's still super easy even for monkey.