About Tadka
Tadka is a colour-sort puzzle with an Indian kitchen for a skin: cutting-chai glasses on wooden shelves, filled with spice colour. It plays in a browser tab, free, with no account and nothing to install.
The game
Tall glasses hold stacked bands of colour, jumbled. Tap a glass to lift it, tap another to pour. A pour only lands on an empty glass or on top of the same colour, and the whole matching run at the top travels in one tap. A level is solved when every glass holds a single colour or nothing at all. The full rules and the strategy that follows from them are on How to play.
The levels, and why none of them is impossible
There are 200 levels, running from four colours up to twelve. Every one of them was generated as a fixed seed and then solved by the same rules module the game itself runs on before it was allowed to ship. A seed the solver could not finish was thrown away. That is why the par number printed on each level is the length of a real solution rather than an estimate, and it is what the three-star rating is measured against.
Because levels are seeds rather than random shuffles, level 37 is the same board for every player forever — and a restart gives you back the board you just lost, which is the only way replaying to beat par means anything. The full breakdown, including how hard each free level actually is, is on Levels.
How the money works
Levels 1 to 12 are free, with no advertising and no account. One optional payment unlocks the Kitchen Gift Pack: two extra glasses on every board forever, unlimited undo, all 200 levels and a VIP badge. It is charged once. There is no subscription and nothing is ever billed again.
Paddle.com Market Ltd is the merchant of record. Buyers in India are quoted in rupees. Your local sales tax may be added at checkout where it applies, so the final total can read slightly higher than the price on the offer card. Refunds are plain: 14 days, no argument — see Refunds.
The first time you ever jam a board, the game hands you a spare glass for free and you carry on. Undo and restart are free forever, paid or not.
How it is built
One HTML page, a canvas, and about 40 KB of hand-written JavaScript. No game engine, no image files, no fonts to download, no build step. Every glass, every gradient, every splash and every sound is drawn or synthesised in the browser as you play, which is why it starts quickly on a cheap phone and a slow connection.
What we do not claim
Tadka is new. It has no reviews, no star rating and no player count, and you will not find one invented anywhere on this site. The only numbers published here — level counts, colour counts, par, and the simulated difficulty on Levels — are read straight out of the game's own data or measured by a program whose method is described on that page.
The other two games
Same makers, same rules about honesty, same one-time-unlock model.
Contact
Bugs, refunds, or a level you think is broken: hello@shipr.gg.