Bird Sort Puzzle — Play Free Online

Bird Sort Puzzle is a colour-sorting brain teaser, and it is about as far from Doodle Jump's frantic climbing as a game can get. Instead of dodging and bouncing, you sit with a handful of branches, each crowded with birds of mixed colours, and work out how to get every colour onto a branch of its own.

The appeal is the calm. There is no timer pushing you and nothing to dodge, so a session is as fast or as slow as you like. If you play Doodle Jump in short bursts between other things, this is the page for the moments when you want to think instead of react.

It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and it works with a mouse or a finger.

How to play

The listed controls mention arrow keys and WASD, but a sorting puzzle like this is really played by pointing: click or tap a bird or branch to pick it up, then click or tap the branch you want to move it to. On a phone, tapping is all you need.

A level is solved when each branch holds birds of a single colour. Moves are limited by the space on each branch and by what is already sitting on top, so the order you do things in matters more than speed.

Tips

• Look over the whole board before your first move and note which colours are buried deepest.
• Try to clear one branch early. An empty branch gives you room to shuffle birds around while you work.
• Avoid stacking birds onto a mismatched colour unless it frees something you need. Moves like that are the usual cause of a dead end.
• If you get stuck, restarting the level is often quicker than untangling a bad position.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

Most of this site's catalogue is faster. Helix Jump is a one-touch descent where timing is everything, and Bird Jumper is a jumping game that keeps the feathered theme but asks for reflexes. Fireboy and Watergirl is the closest in spirit, since it is a puzzle game that rewards planning ahead and works well with two players on one keyboard.

Bird Sort Puzzle suits short, quiet sessions on a phone, a Chromebook or a laptop.