Pour water to wash every tile clean before the tank runs dry. Dirty water runs down onto whatever is below.
A calm cleaning puzzle
Tap above the dirt to pour. The water runs down, lifts the grime off every tile it touches and carries it away. But dirty water drops its dirt again wherever it slows, so the order you wash in decides whether the water lasts.
How to play
Grime sits on the tiles as a lumpy brown crust. The tank holds a few pours, and every one counts.
Tap above the dirt, or slide to aim first and lift to pour. The water runs down, scrubs what it touches and carries the grime away.
When no grime is left on a tile or in the water, the level is washed. Do it within the goal's pours for three stars.
What makes it special
Slide along the top and a dotted line shows where the water will land. Lift your finger to pour. A pour is one tap, so speed never matters.
Falling water carries the most grime, sliding water a little and still water none, so dirt washed off one tile lands on whatever is below.
Drains, baths that hold whatever reaches them, mud that one splash knocks loose, muddy plugs, and trays that tip their water out once full.
Undo puts the board and the tank back to before your last pour, and Restart begins the level again. No timers, and no rush.
The hint lights the column to pour into next and where that water will land. If the water left can no longer wash it clean, the game says so.
After the first chapter, a daily puzzle opens, the same for everyone, with a streak to keep and a calendar of past days.
Screenshots
Rinse's title screen: the wordmark, a small washing toy pouring over muddy tiles, and the Play button
Rinse's level 44 with water running down over the tiles, washing the grime away
Aiming a pour in Rinse: the nozzle above a column, with a dotted line to where the water will land
The Rinse hint lighting the column to pour into next and the tile where that water lands
A Rinse level washed clean with three gold stars, and its card ready to share or save
Rinse's level 128 in the dark look: tiles, grime and a wooden tray on a deep blue board
About the game
Rinse is about the one thing anyone who has washed a car or a floor knows: dirty water goes downhill, and whatever you wash first, you may have to wash again.
The water never makes a choice you could not see coming. A pour onto a peak splits evenly, and a bath always fills before it spills over its rim, so every level can be read and planned.
Every board is drawn in its chapter's style, then searched for the fewest pours that wash it clean, which becomes its goal, and the tank holds that goal and a little more. Each level is then scored by how unlikely someone pouring at random would be to come out clean, and that score never drops from one level to the next, chapter starts included.
No two levels look alike, and each chapter keeps at least two pours, so a late level is never one tap. The tiles, the water, the grime and every sound are made in code.
Rinse is free to play, with no account, no timers and no energy to wait for.
It has a few ads, placed so they never touch a puzzle: a banner below the board and at the foot of the title, the level list and each result, an ad between levels now and then, and short videos you can choose to watch, for a hint or to try a pack. Its shop is optional, since every level opens by playing. The Supporter pack turns the ads off for good and makes every hint free, and the other packs, level keys and the tip jar help pay for the next game.
Made by Shravan Goswami.Credits
From the blog
Guides to washing the board, from the game where dirty water runs downhill.
Why every screen in Rinse sits behind wet glass, why screens change with a squeegee wipe, and how a Spotless count and a rising note make washing satisfying.
Every Rinse level is one grimy thing to wash, from a patio slab to a rocket. How the things are built from shapes, painted, and put in an order that only gets harder.
In Rinse, falling water scrubs, sliding water carries a little and still water drops its dirt. How the water works, and how that turns washing into a puzzle.
Questions
Tap above the dirt to pour, or touch and slide to aim and lift your finger to pour. The water runs down, lifts the grime off the tiles it touches and carries it away, and dirty water drops its grime again where it slows. Wash every tile clean before the tank runs dry. Each pour uses one from the tank, and the level is won when no grime is left anywhere.
Yes. Rinse is a free Android game, coming soon to Google Play. It shows a few ads, never during a level, and its shop is optional: every level opens by playing.
No. Rinse plays completely offline, and your progress is saved on your device. The Android app goes online only for its ads, for purchases through Google Play and, if you use it, for Google Play Games. Without a connection no ads appear, and a hint that would ask for a video is given anyway.
Every level has a goal: the fewest pours that wash it clean. Wash it within the goal for three stars, with one pour more for two, and in any other clean finish for one. Undo takes a pour back, board and tank together, and Restart begins the level again.
Rinse is free, with nothing to sign up for. It is coming soon to Google Play.
