Ship Out
Match colored ships with passengers and clear the port in this strategic puzzle
Ship Out
Ship Out — Manage Your Port Through Color-Matching Ship Logistics
Ship Out transforms port management into an engaging color-matching logic puzzle. A busy harbor filled with ships and waiting passengers needs your organizational skills. Each colored ship must pick up passengers of the matching color, fill to capacity, and depart. But ships block each other's paths, passengers wait at specific piers, and you must plan your movements carefully to avoid creating unsolvable traffic jams. Clear the entire port by successfully sending all ships sailing in this strategic puzzle challenge.
🎮 What is Ship Out?
Ship Out is a logical puzzle game where you manage a congested port filled with colored ships and color-coded passengers. Your objective is to match each ship with its corresponding passengers, fill every vessel, and successfully clear the entire location.
The core gameplay revolves around strategic ship movement:
- Colored ships are parked in the harbor, some blocking others
- Colored passengers (represented by stickmen) wait at the pier
- Only unblocked ships can move to pick up passengers
- Ships must match passenger colors – a blue ship can only pick up blue passengers
- Ships must fill completely before they can depart
- Clear the port by sending all ships out successfully
The challenge comes from spatial reasoning and move sequencing. Ships are arranged in ways that block each other. If you move the wrong ship first, you might trap other ships that needed to depart earlier. You must analyze the initial layout, identify which ships can move, determine the optimal order to avoid gridlock, and execute your plan to clear the port.
As levels progress, the puzzles become more complex with more ships, more passengers, tighter harbor layouts, and more intricate blocking patterns that require careful planning.
🕹️ How to Play Ship Out
Ship Out uses simple mouse-based controls that let you focus on strategic port management:
Controls
| Action | Desktop | Mobile/Tablet |
|---|---|---|
| Select Ship | Click on ship | Tap on ship |
| Move to Pier | Click ship to send it to pick up passengers | Tap ship to send it to pick up passengers |
| View Layout | Mouse movement | Touch gestures |
| Restart Level | Click restart button | Tap restart button |
Gameplay Mechanics
- Survey the port – Examine ship positions, colors, and which ships are blocked
- Identify passengers – Note what color passengers are waiting at the pier
- Find unblocked ships – Determine which ships can currently move
- Match colors – Click ships that match the color of waiting passengers
- Fill ships – Each ship picks up matching passengers until full
- Send ships out – Filled ships depart, clearing space in the harbor
- Repeat strategically – Continue until all ships have departed
- Clear the port – Complete the level when the harbor is empty
Strategy Tips
- Analyze before acting – Study the entire layout before moving any ship
- Identify blocking patterns – Note which ships block others' paths
- Work backward – Sometimes figure out which ship needs to leave last, then plan accordingly
- Match passenger demand – Ensure ships that match waiting passengers can reach the pier
- Avoid creating deadlocks – Don't move ships in ways that trap others permanently
- Plan the sequence – Visualize the complete departure order before starting
📸 Ship Out Gameplay Walkthrough
🚢 Assessing the Harbor
When you start a Ship Out level, you're presented with a harbor full of ships and a pier with waiting passengers. Your first task is understanding the puzzle's initial state.
Examine the ship arrangement carefully:
- Which ships are unblocked? – Ships at the front can move immediately; others are trapped behind them
- What colors are present? – Note all ship colors and match them to passenger colors
- How many passengers are waiting? – Count passengers to understand how many ships need to depart
Early levels might have just 3-4 ships in a simple layout. One ship blocks another, passengers of two colors wait, and the solution is obvious: move the front ship first, then the blocked ship.
But as you progress, you'll encounter harbors with 6+ ships in complex arrangements where multiple ships block each other in intricate patterns. The solution becomes less obvious, requiring careful planning.
🎨 Color Matching Strategy
The color-matching mechanic in Ship Out adds a layer of constraint to the spatial puzzle. You can't just move any ship—you must move ships that match the passengers currently waiting at the pier.
Imagine this scenario:
- Blue passengers are waiting
- You have a blue ship and a red ship
- The blue ship is blocked by the red ship
You're stuck. You need the blue ship to pick up blue passengers, but it can't move until the red ship moves. But the red ship can't pick up the blue passengers (wrong color). You need to wait until red passengers appear, or find another solution.
This creates fascinating puzzle logic where you must:
- Sequence ship departures to match passenger arrival/availability
- Clear blocking ships even if their matching passengers haven't arrived yet
- Manage the pier like a queue, ensuring ships arrive when their passengers are present
🧩 Solving Blocking Patterns
The most challenging aspect of Ship Out is resolving complex blocking patterns. Ships arranged in tight harbor spaces can create intricate spatial puzzles.
Consider a level where:
- Ship A blocks Ship B and Ship C
- Ship B blocks Ship D
- Ship C blocks Ship E
- Passengers for D and E are waiting, but not for A, B, or C
You need to think strategically:
- Can you move Ship A? Only if its matching passengers are present or if you can create space elsewhere
- If you move Ship A, which path opens? Does it free Ship B or Ship C first?
- Can the newly freed ship pick up waiting passengers?
- Does this create a chain reaction allowing other ships to move?
Advanced levels require you to visualize multiple moves ahead, like playing chess with colored ships. One wrong move can create an unsolvable state where ships trap each other with no valid sequence to clear the port.
🏆 Perfect Port Clearance
When you successfully send the last ship sailing, the harbor empties completely—a satisfying visual confirmation of your strategic success. You've solved the puzzle by correctly sequencing ship movements, matching colors to passengers, and navigating the blocking patterns.
The most elegant solutions in Ship Out involve:
- Minimal moves – Sending ships out in the optimal order without backtracking
- Efficient color matching – Timing ship departures to match passenger availability perfectly
- Smooth sequences – Creating a flow where each ship's departure naturally enables the next
As you progress through levels, you develop pattern recognition skills. You start to intuitively see which ship should move first based on:
- Its position in the blocking hierarchy
- The availability of its matching passengers
- The consequences of its movement on other ships' accessibility
Ship Out proves that compelling puzzle design doesn't require complex mechanics. By combining color matching with spatial blocking logic, the game creates challenges that are easy to understand but satisfyingly difficult to solve.
Whether you're casually clearing a few harbors or systematically working through increasingly complex port layouts, Ship Out delivers logical puzzle-solving that exercises your strategic thinking and spatial reasoning skills with every level.
Ship Out — Manage Your Port Through Color-Matching Ship Logistics
Ship Out transforms port management into an engaging color-matching logic puzzle. A busy harbor filled with ships and waiting passengers needs your organizational skills. Each colored ship must pick up passengers of the matching color, fill to capacity, and depart. But ships block each other's paths, passengers wait at specific piers, and you must plan your movements carefully to avoid creating unsolvable traffic jams. Clear the entire port by successfully sending all ships sailing in this strategic puzzle challenge.
🎮 What is Ship Out?
Ship Out is a logical puzzle game where you manage a congested port filled with colored ships and color-coded passengers. Your objective is to match each ship with its corresponding passengers, fill every vessel, and successfully clear the entire location.
The core gameplay revolves around strategic ship movement:
- Colored ships are parked in the harbor, some blocking others
- Colored passengers (represented by stickmen) wait at the pier
- Only unblocked ships can move to pick up passengers
- Ships must match passenger colors – a blue ship can only pick up blue passengers
- Ships must fill completely before they can depart
- Clear the port by sending all ships out successfully
The challenge comes from spatial reasoning and move sequencing. Ships are arranged in ways that block each other. If you move the wrong ship first, you might trap other ships that needed to depart earlier. You must analyze the initial layout, identify which ships can move, determine the optimal order to avoid gridlock, and execute your plan to clear the port.
As levels progress, the puzzles become more complex with more ships, more passengers, tighter harbor layouts, and more intricate blocking patterns that require careful planning.
🕹️ How to Play Ship Out
Ship Out uses simple mouse-based controls that let you focus on strategic port management:
Controls
| Action | Desktop | Mobile/Tablet |
|---|---|---|
| Select Ship | Click on ship | Tap on ship |
| Move to Pier | Click ship to send it to pick up passengers | Tap ship to send it to pick up passengers |
| View Layout | Mouse movement | Touch gestures |
| Restart Level | Click restart button | Tap restart button |
Gameplay Mechanics
- Survey the port – Examine ship positions, colors, and which ships are blocked
- Identify passengers – Note what color passengers are waiting at the pier
- Find unblocked ships – Determine which ships can currently move
- Match colors – Click ships that match the color of waiting passengers
- Fill ships – Each ship picks up matching passengers until full
- Send ships out – Filled ships depart, clearing space in the harbor
- Repeat strategically – Continue until all ships have departed
- Clear the port – Complete the level when the harbor is empty
Strategy Tips
- Analyze before acting – Study the entire layout before moving any ship
- Identify blocking patterns – Note which ships block others' paths
- Work backward – Sometimes figure out which ship needs to leave last, then plan accordingly
- Match passenger demand – Ensure ships that match waiting passengers can reach the pier
- Avoid creating deadlocks – Don't move ships in ways that trap others permanently
- Plan the sequence – Visualize the complete departure order before starting
📸 Ship Out Gameplay Walkthrough
🚢 Assessing the Harbor
When you start a Ship Out level, you're presented with a harbor full of ships and a pier with waiting passengers. Your first task is understanding the puzzle's initial state.
Examine the ship arrangement carefully:
- Which ships are unblocked? – Ships at the front can move immediately; others are trapped behind them
- What colors are present? – Note all ship colors and match them to passenger colors
- How many passengers are waiting? – Count passengers to understand how many ships need to depart
Early levels might have just 3-4 ships in a simple layout. One ship blocks another, passengers of two colors wait, and the solution is obvious: move the front ship first, then the blocked ship.
But as you progress, you'll encounter harbors with 6+ ships in complex arrangements where multiple ships block each other in intricate patterns. The solution becomes less obvious, requiring careful planning.
🎨 Color Matching Strategy
The color-matching mechanic in Ship Out adds a layer of constraint to the spatial puzzle. You can't just move any ship—you must move ships that match the passengers currently waiting at the pier.
Imagine this scenario:
- Blue passengers are waiting
- You have a blue ship and a red ship
- The blue ship is blocked by the red ship
You're stuck. You need the blue ship to pick up blue passengers, but it can't move until the red ship moves. But the red ship can't pick up the blue passengers (wrong color). You need to wait until red passengers appear, or find another solution.
This creates fascinating puzzle logic where you must:
- Sequence ship departures to match passenger arrival/availability
- Clear blocking ships even if their matching passengers haven't arrived yet
- Manage the pier like a queue, ensuring ships arrive when their passengers are present
🧩 Solving Blocking Patterns
The most challenging aspect of Ship Out is resolving complex blocking patterns. Ships arranged in tight harbor spaces can create intricate spatial puzzles.
Consider a level where:
- Ship A blocks Ship B and Ship C
- Ship B blocks Ship D
- Ship C blocks Ship E
- Passengers for D and E are waiting, but not for A, B, or C
You need to think strategically:
- Can you move Ship A? Only if its matching passengers are present or if you can create space elsewhere
- If you move Ship A, which path opens? Does it free Ship B or Ship C first?
- Can the newly freed ship pick up waiting passengers?
- Does this create a chain reaction allowing other ships to move?
Advanced levels require you to visualize multiple moves ahead, like playing chess with colored ships. One wrong move can create an unsolvable state where ships trap each other with no valid sequence to clear the port.
🏆 Perfect Port Clearance
When you successfully send the last ship sailing, the harbor empties completely—a satisfying visual confirmation of your strategic success. You've solved the puzzle by correctly sequencing ship movements, matching colors to passengers, and navigating the blocking patterns.
The most elegant solutions in Ship Out involve:
- Minimal moves – Sending ships out in the optimal order without backtracking
- Efficient color matching – Timing ship departures to match passenger availability perfectly
- Smooth sequences – Creating a flow where each ship's departure naturally enables the next
As you progress through levels, you develop pattern recognition skills. You start to intuitively see which ship should move first based on:
- Its position in the blocking hierarchy
- The availability of its matching passengers
- The consequences of its movement on other ships' accessibility
Ship Out proves that compelling puzzle design doesn't require complex mechanics. By combining color matching with spatial blocking logic, the game creates challenges that are easy to understand but satisfyingly difficult to solve.
Whether you're casually clearing a few harbors or systematically working through increasingly complex port layouts, Ship Out delivers logical puzzle-solving that exercises your strategic thinking and spatial reasoning skills with every level.
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