Press Start on the title card. Shelf 1 teaches the idea, each shelf you sort opens the next, and Tonight’s window is open from the start.
A finished shelf is one smooth gradient: the colors blend evenly between the four corner globes, so every globe has exactly one right spot.
Globes on gold bases with a star are fixed and never move. Every shelf fixes at least its four corners; use their colors as guides for the globes around them.
Swap any two loose globes, as often as you like. The shelf is finished the moment every globe is in its spot.
Each shelf earns ribbons: three for sorting it in the fewest swaps possible (par), two within a few swaps of par, and one for finishing. Each hint costs a ribbon, never below one.
Controls
Touch or mouse: tap a globe to pick it up, then tap another to swap them, or drag a globe onto another. Tap a lifted globe again to set it down.
Keyboard: arrow keys or WASD move the cursor, Space or Enter picks up the globe under it and then swaps, Escape sets a globe down, U or Z undoes a swap, R starts the shelf over, H asks for a hint and M opens the shelf map.
Buttons: Undo takes back the last swap, Start over puts the shelf back the way it began (Undo brings your swaps back), and Hint has Barnaby put one globe in its spot. The shelf name in the scoreboard opens the map.
Toolbar: pause, help, restart (starts the shelf on screen over; ribbons, bests and other shelves stay), optional sound and fullscreen.
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How to play Snowglobe Sort
Swap the glowing snowglobes in a toy shop window until their colors flow in one smooth gradient from corner to corner on a snowy Christmas evening.
Press Start on the title card. Shelf 1 teaches the idea, each shelf you sort opens the next, and Tonight’s window is open from the start.
A finished shelf is one smooth gradient: the colors blend evenly between the four corner globes, so every globe has exactly one right spot.
Globes on gold bases with a star are fixed and never move. Every shelf fixes at least its four corners; use their colors as guides for the globes around them.
Swap any two loose globes, as often as you like. The shelf is finished the moment every globe is in its spot.
Each shelf earns ribbons: three for sorting it in the fewest swaps possible (par), two within a few swaps of par, and one for finishing. Each hint costs a ribbon, never below one.
Controls
Touch or mouse: tap a globe to pick it up, then tap another to swap them, or drag a globe onto another. Tap a lifted globe again to set it down.
Keyboard: arrow keys or WASD move the cursor, Space or Enter picks up the globe under it and then swaps, Escape sets a globe down, U or Z undoes a swap, R starts the shelf over, H asks for a hint and M opens the shelf map.
Buttons: Undo takes back the last swap, Start over puts the shelf back the way it began (Undo brings your swaps back), and Hint has Barnaby put one globe in its spot. The shelf name in the scoreboard opens the map.
Toolbar: pause, help, restart (starts the shelf on screen over; ribbons, bests and other shelves stay), optional sound and fullscreen.