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Shades of Happiness

A zen puzzle about color and quiet. Every level is a gradient cut into tiles and shuffled: bring each shade back where it belongs until the transitions run smooth again. No timer, no lives, no way to lose — just you, the color and the calm.

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About this game

A hundred levels live in ten chapters, each with its own palette and mood: Dawn, Calm, Lagoon, Dusk, Depth, Midnight, Happiness. Boards change shape as you go — square grids and hexagonal ones, ovals, diamonds, silhouettes with holes. Some tiles are pinned: they start in the right spot and hold the picture together. The next chapter opens once five of the ten levels before it are solved. A separate Daily puzzle arrives every day, with a palette of its own. Play on consecutive days and a streak builds up. Progress is saved to the cloud and follows you between devices. Russian and English, soft ambient loops and gentle sounds with adjustable volume.

How to play

The goal of a level is to rebuild the color gradient: the tiles are shuffled, and each one has a place of its own. Controls are the same for a mouse and a touchscreen. First way: press a tile, drag it onto another one and release — the two swap places. Second way: tap a tile, it lifts and stays selected, then tap another tile and the swap happens at once. Tapping the selected tile again, or tapping outside the board, clears the selection. Pinned tiles cannot be moved: they are already where they belong and they anchor the rest of the board. Touch one and it simply wobbles and stays put. The bar on top always shows your move count and how many tiles are still misplaced. When that number reaches zero the level is solved: a victory screen appears with your result and two move marks, good and ideal. If a picture will not come together, the hint button lights up every misplaced tile for three seconds in exchange for watching an ad.

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