Pixel Animal: Pixel Art Puzzle

Plenty of games ask you to match colors. Pixel Animal asks something else: in what order will you send them?

Tap an animal and it walks from the left edge to the right. In each column it clears the bottom block, but only if that block is its color. It can't skip past other colors.
When an animal has cleared as many blocks as its number, it leaves. If it has some left, it comes back and takes a seat.
So the animal that clears the most right now isn't always the best move. Clear the colors underneath first, and the ones above open up.

■ Animals wait in line
Behind each of the five slots is a line of animals, and only the one at the front can be used.
Need an animal further back? Send out the ones in front of it first.
Will you spend a move on an animal that can't clear anything, just to move the line forward? That call is the heart of the game.

■ Five seats for returning animals
An animal with blocks left over comes back to one of five seats, and you can send it out again from there.
If all five seats are full when another animal returns, the level is lost.
Keeping seats free is part of the skill.

■ One animal for every color
Red blocks are for the Crab, yellow blocks for the Chick.
Eight animals (Crab, Fox, Chick, Caterpillar, Pig, Deer, Cow and Panda) each take care of their own color.
No need to pick anyone: the colors on the board decide which animals show up.

■ 1,000 pixel pictures
Boards start at 14×14 and grow to 50×50. The bigger the grid, the smaller the blocks and the finer the picture.
Every level has been checked, move by move, to be solvable under the real rules,
and the moves you get are set tightly around a good solution.
Every 10th level is Very Hard, with almost no room for mistakes.
Each picture you finish goes into your Album.

■ Items for when you're stuck (a new one unlocks every 20 levels)
· +3 moves: three more moves on this level
· Hint: shows the animal that clears the most right now
· Shuffle: sends the animals in the slots to the back of their own lines and brings up the next ones
· Bomb: clears one chosen color from the board
· Undo: takes back your last move

■ Reasons to come back every day
· Daily gift: grows bigger for 7 days as you keep coming back
· Daily challenge: one more level that costs no heart
· Chests between levels: every level you clear brings the next chest closer
· Fill a page of your Album (20 pictures) to earn coins

■ You'll enjoy this if you
· prefer thinking over a move to puzzles that end in seconds
· want a game you can play one level at a time on your commute
· love watching a pixel picture appear block by block

■ Our promise
· No sign-up, no login
· Your progress is saved only on your device
· No in-app purchases
· The game itself works offline (internet is used only to load ads)
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