A level, up close

A picture made of crabs.

Every level is a little picture, a watermelon, a tulip, a camera, drawn in crabs. Three shells wait up top, each asking for one color and an exact number of crabs.

100 pictures, from a watermelon to headphones and framed art
Crabs touching at a side or a corner are one group, and they all go together
No timer: take as long as you like to look before you tap

How to play

Tap a group. Fill the shells.

Send every crab home and the picture is done. The trick is the order.

1
Tap a crab group
Tap any crab and every crab of its color touching it scuttles off together to the shell of that color.
2
Count before you tap
Each shell takes an exact number, and only three are open at a time. Crabs with no room wait in a pool below, and when every pool is taken the board is jammed. Undo is there if it happens.
3
Find the way out
A group boxed in by other crabs cannot move yet, so clear around it first. Later pictures add frozen crabs, question-mark crabs and crabs hiding under crabs.

The chill zone

Then everybody goes to the Tidepool.

Between pictures the crabs rest on the sand with Puddle the elephant. Nobody is in a hurry.

The Tidepool of Little Shelly: Puddle the elephant in the pool and little crabs on the sand

Puddle's shower

Tap Puddle and she showers everyone from her trunk, with a rainbow on top. Drop a crab on her and she tosses it into the pool.

Peanuts

Toss a peanut and the crabs come running. Puddle can hear the bag open from across the beach.

The beach shop

Things for the Tidepool: a shell hideaway, a sand bucket, a sandcastle, a pocket lighthouse, a shell carousel, an underwater disco and the Giant Peanut. When your phone goes to dark mode, the beach goes to night.

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