A cozy color-sorting puzzle

Picnic Pixels

Small bites. One clever choice at a time.

Send colorful ant teams to clear a pixel picnic. Read the colors, make room at the docks, and find a satisfying order through each snack.

Start your picnic

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Illustration of a pixel strawberry and three colorful ant teams
Game illustration. Open the game to play.
36 puzzlesSix chapters of little snacks
Daily picnicA fresh puzzle to return to
Your own paceThink before sending a team
Local progressContinue in this browser

Read the snack. Choose the next team.

  1. Look at the exposed colors. Teams collect matching pixels they can reach. Think about what the next color will reveal.
  2. Choose a team from the front of a queue. Click or tap its colored button to send it to an open dock. The number shows how many pixels it can collect.
  3. Keep the three holding spots moving. A team leaves when its count reaches zero. If all three spots fill with teams that cannot reach their colors, use Undo or Restart to try another order.
  4. Clear the snack. Use a hint when stuck, or undo and try a different order. Start with the first chapter before visiting the daily picnic.

The opening puzzles teach the loop in small steps. On a keyboard, 1–4 sends the front team from a queue, Z undoes, H gives a hint, and Space switches between 1× and 2× speed. There is no timer.

A small puzzle for a quiet break

The campaign has 36 puzzles across six chapters. Completed snacks and stars give you a reason to return, while the daily picnic offers another arrangement to work through.

Experiment with the order instead of tapping every available team. Clearing a useful color can open the next one and free a dock at just the right moment.

Clear a recipe without hints or undo for three stars. Using a hint reduces the result by one star, and using Undo reduces it by one more, with a minimum of one star. Restarting is free.

Your picnic stays yours

Progress is stored locally in this browser. Returning on the same browser lets you continue; clearing browser data or switching devices does not carry that progress over automatically.

Choose Share this recipe during play or share a result after finishing. A campaign link opens the same recipe; a daily link keeps its original calendar date. Your friend confirms before opening it, and the shared recipe uses a separate save so their own picnic stays available.

This is a solo puzzle game. Share a recipe and compare your approaches on your own schedules. There is no live room or shared board.

Play with a mouse or touchscreen

Click or tap the queue buttons. A phone works well for a quick picnic; a larger screen gives the snack, queues, and chapter list more room.

Sound is optional. Your saves belong to this game and are separate from every other game in the arcade.

Your next little picnic is ready.

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