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Animals in matching caps, penguins, pigs, frogs and ducks, queue on a wooden pier beside chunky toy ferries of the same colours in a bright harbour with a lighthouse

Ferry Fuss

Sorting and spatial logic

By Migs · 110 plays

Untangle a jammed harbour: sail boats out bow first in the right order and fill them with animal passengers in matching caps before the five berths run out. 120 levels across six harbours.

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About the game

Anyone who has queued for a ferry in Manila will know this feeling. I made a much calmer version, with animals in matching caps. Ferry Fuss is a cheerful harbour puzzle. The marina is packed with dinghies, launches and big ferries, and a queue of animals in sailor caps is waiting on the pier. Tap a boat to sail it out. Boats only go forward, bow first, so the water ahead must be clear. Each boat docks at one of five berths, and passengers whose cap matches its colour and emblem climb aboard from the front of the queue. A full boat sails away and frees its berth. If all five berths fill up with boats nobody can board, the level is lost. Every colour has its own emblem, a circle, star, triangle, square, diamond or heart, so you never have to tell colours apart. Some passengers travel in pairs and need two seats together on one boat. Fog hides a boat until its way is clear, and once per level a little tugboat can pull out a blocked boat. There are 120 levels in six harbours, from sleepy Puffin Cove to Aurora Sound under the northern lights, and every one has been checked by a solver. Keep as few boats waiting as you can for three stars. Undo, hints and restart are always at hand.

How to play

Tap or click a boat to sail it out. It moves bow first and only if the water ahead is clear. It docks at the first free berth, and passengers at the front of the queue whose cap matches its colour and emblem board it. A pair needs two seats on the same boat. A full boat leaves. Fill all five berths and the level is lost. Tugboat (once per level, costs a star): tap Tugboat, then a blocked boat. Undo and Hint: 3 each per level. Keyboard: arrows move between boats, Enter sails, T tugboat, U undo, H hint, Escape pauses.

Devices
desktop, mobile, tablet
Orientation
any

Content notes

No violence, text chat, ads or purchases. Gentle sound effects that can be turned off, and motion that can be reduced in settings.

Screenshots

Saltmarsh Quay, level 31: a tightly packed basin, two animals on a bench travelling as a pair who need two seats on one boat, a pink dinghy at the pier with a rider, and a hint outlining the red launch to sail nextLantern Bay in golden light, level 52: a long ten-seat purple ferry and launches and dinghies jammed bow to stern in the basin, a purple launch boarding at the pier and animals in green and purple caps queueingFogwick Harbour, level 87: grey fog boats marked with a question mark hide their colour until their way is clear, and the tugboat is armed, outlining the blocked boats in the packed basin that it can pull outAll aboard! The results card after Aurora Sound level 105 under the northern lights: three gold stars, passengers carried, the most boats waiting against the best, and buttons to replay or sail to the next levelThe harbours screen: 120 levels in six harbours from Puffin Cove to Aurora Sound, each with its own boat and animal, finished levels with stars, the next level highlighted and later harbours lockedA phone in portrait playing Saltmarsh Quay level 38: animals in emblem caps queue on the pier across the top, a purple dinghy sails in to a berth beside a blue launch, a packed basin fills the screen and big tool buttons sit below

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