About Hoop Sort: A Colour-Sorting Peg Puzzle
Hoop Sort is a colour-sorting puzzle built around a deceptively simple board. Stacks of coloured hoops sit on a row of pegs, all jumbled together, and the goal is to sort them so every peg holds exactly one colour. The single governing rule — a hoop can only move onto an empty peg or onto a hoop of the same colour — is what transforms an easy-looking arrangement into a genuine thinking challenge. The move you want is almost always buried, and freeing it requires planning several steps ahead.
Several scenes show white pillars with rounded bases arranged in a horizontal row, with glossy rounded rings in shades of red, yellow, and orange stacked on them.
There is no timer and no failure state, so every board can always be worked through at your own pace.
How to Play Hoop Sort: Sort Every Colour onto Its Own Peg
Tap a peg to lift its top hoop, then tap a second peg to drop it. A hoop can only land on an empty peg or on a hoop of its own colour, which means the order in which you unstack things is the entire puzzle. Finish a level by sorting every colour onto its own dedicated peg.
An awkward sequence can leave a board stuck, which is where the three boosters come in:
- Undo: reverses a move
- Extra peg: adds a free peg to the board
- Hint: suggests a move
Clearing levels earns coins, which can be spent to buy more of these boosters.
Controls
- Tap / Click a peg: lift the top hoop from that peg
- Tap / Click a second peg: drop the lifted hoop onto that peg
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If the colour-matching logic of Hoop Sort appeals to you, the broader world of puzzle games is full of similarly satisfying challenges. Nuts Puzzle: Sort By Color swaps hoops for coloured nuts on screws and likewise demands careful multi-step planning as levels grow trickier. For something with a visual payoff, Jewel Coloring: Crystal Sorting has you sorting gems by colour into matching cells until a sparkling picture emerges. Screw Sort 3D brings a mechanical twist, asking you to unscrew bolts and sort them into boxes using spatial logic. Blockibo: Color Blocks shifts the format to coloured blocks and gates, rewarding the same kind of deliberate, move-by-move thinking. Explore more in the brain games and logic games categories for further peg, sort, and arrangement puzzles.
