Shell Sort Cove

What you do

Shell Sort Cove is a relaxed beach sorting puzzle where pastel shells move between tidepool trays until matching sets of four slide into your collection book. It keeps the familiar comfort of water-sort puzzles while adding sandy details, shell silhouettes, undo, hints, board progression, and a long-term local shell collection.

• Thirty seeded shell boards across easy, medium, and harder tray layouts.
• Six shell families with different silhouettes and colors.
• Tap-to-move or drag-and-drop sorting with undo, hints, restart, and a shell collection book.
• Cleared shell sets feed a local collection book.
• Portrait tablet layout with large tidepool trays and readable shells.

How to play

1. Tap a tray with a top shell, then tap an empty tray or one topped with the same shell.
2. Or drag the top shell from one tidepool and drop it onto a matching or empty tidepool.
3. Each tray holds up to four shells.
4. A set clears when a tray contains four matching shells.
5. Use Undo to take back the last move or Hint to highlight a useful source tray.
6. Open Book to view your locally saved shell collection.

Controls

• Touch or mouse: drag a top shell onto a matching or empty tidepool.
• Touch or mouse: tap a shell tray, then tap a destination tray.
• Undo button: restore the previous shell move.
• Hint button: select a promising tray.
• Shared toolbar: pause, restart, mute, or share.

Tips worth knowing

• Keep at least one empty tray available for maneuvering.
• Build toward trays that already have two or three matching shells.
• Avoid burying a rare top shell under a different type.
• Try to finish under target moves for a three-pearl result.

Accessibility

• Shells use both color and silhouette differences.
• Tray hit areas are large for tablet play.
• Status text explains invalid moves and current board progress.