Shape Sorter

Drop the shapes in and pop the rainbow! A wooden toy box sits in a soft pastel room, its painted lid full of holes: a circle, a heart, a star, a diamond. In the felt tray below wait chunky, glossy shapes with a painted pattern. Drag a shape toward the hole with its outline: a magnet pulls it in, it turns to fit, and it drops with a plunk, a bell and a burst of stars. Put it in the wrong hole and it just bounces back with a friendly boing.

When the last shape drops in, the whole box squashes, jumps and bursts into a rainbow with a shower of confetti.

There are 90 boxes in nine worlds. It starts with two shapes and simple outlines, then adds twins, holes that are turned so the shape has to spin to fit, look-alikes like circles, ovals and octagons, colour pairs told apart by colour and pattern, wooden doors that open when another hole is filled, and holes that swap places. Every fifth box is a golden boss box with a double rainbow hop. Earn up to three stars on every box and see how many you collect this week.

Colour is never the only clue: every colour has its own pattern, stripes, dots, zigzags and more, so everybody can play. There is nothing to read, no timers, no lives and no game over. A ghost hand shows the way when you pause, and a hint button is always there.

Shape Sorter plays in your browser on phones, tablets and computers. No download, no sign-up.