How do I sort the green balls in Tilt Sort?

Hold the beam completely level so the ball falls through the centre slot. That is harder than it sounds, because the ball's own momentum wants to tip the beam.

Which way do the colours go?

Pink rolls off the left end, blue off the right, and green drops through the middle.

What happens if I miss?

The ball tumbles into the spikes below. The balls keep arriving and the interval shortens, so recovery speed matters.

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Balance the beam, roll each ball to its colour.

Balls drop onto a see-saw beam in a sunlit meadow. Slide to tilt it and roll each one off the end that matches its colour: pink left, blue right, while green ones need you to hold dead level so they fall through the centre slot. Miss and it tumbles into the spikes.

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How to play Tilt Sort

Balls drop one at a time onto a see-saw beam in a meadow, and you tilt the beam with drag or the left and right keys to roll each one off the correct end. Pink goes left, blue goes right. Green is the interesting one: it has to fall through a slot in the centre, which means holding the beam genuinely level rather than tilting at all, and doing that while a ball is already rolling is the game's real skill. Anything that leaves the wrong way, or rolls off before you have committed, lands in the spikes below. The balls keep coming and the interval shortens, so the difficulty is in switching between three different intentions quickly.

Tips

Set the tilt before the ball lands, not after. Correcting a rolling ball is much harder than receiving it on the right slope.
Level is a position, not the absence of input. Getting a green through the centre means actively holding flat against the ball's own momentum.
Small tilts. A steep beam gets the ball off fast but leaves you no time to reset for the next one.
Watch the next ball's colour while the current one is still rolling. The game is won by planning one ahead.

About Tilt Sort

Tilt Sort - written TiltSort about as often as Tilt Sort - is a sorting game where the sorting mechanism is a physics object you have to control, which is what makes something conceptually trivial actually difficult. Colour-matching is not the challenge; the challenge is that your only tool is a balanced beam with momentum, and every action you take to solve the current ball puts the beam in the wrong state for the next one. The green-ball rule is the design's sharpest idea: introducing a colour that requires no tilt turns 'do nothing' into an active, difficult input, and it means the three cases genuinely require three different skills rather than two mirror images. Sunlit meadow, clean shapes, and a rising tempo.

What you need

Graphics: WebGL, which every browser from the last decade has switched on already
Controls: Keyboard or touchscreen
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Questions

How do I sort the green balls in Tilt Sort?: Hold the beam completely level so the ball falls through the centre slot. That is harder than it sounds, because the ball's own momentum wants to tip the beam.
Which way do the colours go?: Pink rolls off the left end, blue off the right, and green drops through the middle.
What happens if I miss?: The ball tumbles into the spikes below. The balls keep arriving and the interval shortens, so recovery speed matters.