🍰 Cake Sort Puzzle
Pour frosting layers between tubes until every tube holds just one color.
How to play
- Tap a tube to pick up its top frosting layer.
- Tap another tube to pour the layer there.
- You can only pour onto an empty tube or a matching top color.
- Sort every color into its own tube to win.
- Undo any move, or generate a brand new puzzle any time.
- Three difficulties: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
A cake-themed tube sort puzzle, guaranteed solvable
Cake Sort Puzzle takes the classic ball-sort tube format and reskins it as frosting layers stacked in bakery piping tubes. Tap a tube to lift its top layer, then tap another tube to pour it there, either onto an empty tube or one whose top layer already matches the color you're carrying. Untangle the mess until every tube is a single solid color, or sitting empty, and the puzzle is solved.
Every puzzle here is generated, not just shuffled: the game starts from a fully sorted layout and scrambles it using a sequence of moves, and each move's exact reverse is checked for legality the instant it's made. That means replaying the recorded sequence backward is guaranteed to be a valid solution, so unlike a puzzle generated by pure random shuffling, there's never a risk of an unsolvable board. Three difficulty levels change how many colors are in play, Easy with 4, Medium with 5, and Hard with 6, each with 2 spare empty tubes to maneuver with.
A free Undo lets you back out of a mistake without restarting, and New Puzzle generates a fresh board at the same difficulty any time. Free to play, no download, no account, your fewest-moves best per difficulty saves locally in your browser. For more baking and cooking games, browse the rest of the Cooking Games hub, including the drop-and-merge Cupcake 2048.
Frequently asked questions
How do I play Cake Sort Puzzle?
Tap a tube to pick up its top frosting layer, then tap another tube to pour it there. You can only pour onto an empty tube or one whose top layer is already the same color. Sort every color into its own tube to win.
Is every puzzle actually solvable?
Yes. Every puzzle is generated by scrambling a solved layout using only moves verified to be reversible at the moment they're made, so a solution is guaranteed to exist, not just likely.
What do the difficulty levels change?
Easy uses 4 colors, Medium uses 5, and Hard uses 6, each with 2 extra empty tubes to maneuver with. More colors means more moves needed to untangle everything.
Is Cake Sort Puzzle free with no download?
Yes. It runs directly in your browser with no download, no account, and no in-app purchases. Your fewest-moves best per difficulty saves only in your own browser.