Ninja Water Sort

Ninja Water Sort is a water sort puzzle and color sort game set in the shrines of feudal Japan. Pour eight sacred liquids from vessel to vessel until each one holds a single element, seal the ward, and walk three hundred rites from the First Spring to the Gate of Heaven.

A novice kneels where the mountain water is blessed. Fire, tide, wind, earth, thunder, frost, shadow and the pale light of the kami have run together in the shrine's vessels, and only a master's pour can part them again. Learn the first pour by the waterfall. Climb a thousand gates of fire on the Ember Path, read the mist in the Veiled Garden, and answer the storm at the Thunder Bell. Above the sea of clouds the last gate waits.

Ten shrines, three hundred rites
• A liquid sort campaign across ten painted shrines, thirty rites in each.
• A gentle start, then a steady climb. Every fifth rite is a Trial: harder, announced, and worth double koban.
• One star for any solve, two without help, three for the Master's Path, the shortest pour.

New rules in every shrine
• Frozen vessels that thaw as you pour, and corked vessels that open when wards are sealed.
• Veiled layers hidden in mist until you pour away what lies above.
• Twin vessels bound by a red cord: pour from one and its twin pours too.
• Shrine vessels that accept only their own liquid, and vessels of many sizes.
• At the Gate of Heaven every rule stands together.

Eight elements, eight spirits
• Dragon Ember, Deep Tide, Jade Gale, Iron Earth, Raijin Spark, Frost Breath, Night Ink and Kami Light, each with its own color, pattern and sign.
• Your first Trial calls the Ember Fox onto your scrolls. Shrine gates along the path call the rest: the Tide Dragon, the Gale Crane, the Snow Woman and more, the last at the Gate of Heaven.
• Signs for color-blind players print each element's kanji on every layer.

Today's Offering
• A new water sort rite every day, with its own rule for each weekday.
• Keep seven days of offerings in a row and earn a spirit-scroll fragment.

The master's tools
• Undo, a spare vessel and a restart on every rite.
• Ask the master and the next winning pour is shown.
• Chests along the path, Trials and the daily offering add hints and undos to your reserve.

The Shrine Treasury
• Koban earned on every rite buy painted vessel sets, liquid skins, shrine lights and pour effects. Your rank never falls when you spend.
• Legendary works: the Ryujin Reliquary held by two sea dragons, the Gashadokuro Reliquary of a starving giant's bones, River of Heaven star dust and Yurei Mist, where a drowned spirit surfaces in the liquid.
• Every look can also be bought outright. The Legendary Four and The Whole Treasury gather them, and the Welcome pack lets you pick one Epic vessel set and one Epic liquid.
• Patron of the Shrines: thirty-six wallpapers from the game's paintings and your thanks in the credits. Pouches of ten and twenty-five hints wait for the hardest rites.

Koban and rank
• Rise from Ashigaru through Ronin, Samurai and Hatamoto to Daimyo.
• Play on a phone or a tablet, upright or turned.

For grown-ups
A calm, beautiful water puzzle with a dark edge. The later vessels are bones and demon urns, and some liquids carry ghosts. Nothing jumps out at you.

The water is blessed. Make the first pour.