📘 How to Play Sort the Grocery Shelf?

Sort the Grocery Shelf is a SORTING game — no customers, no orders, no queue. A single grocery item appears in a small wooden crate at the top each time; you drag it onto the correctly labeled shelf. There is no timer and no end — just a calm, endless sorting flow.

1. A single grocery item appears in the wooden crate at the top each time — fruit/veg, a dairy product, or a snack.
2. Each shelf has its own label; pick the one that matches the item's type.
3. Drag the item with your finger or mouse onto the right shelf; if correct, it settles into place and the shelf's counter goes up.
4. A wrong shelf gently slides the item back to the crate with no penalty — try again as many times as you like.

🍎 Real grocery items

Apples, pears, cherries, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes are drawn with real illustration sprites, alongside bakery items like a simit and a fruit danish; dairy products and extra snacks are finished in code using the same thick-outline comic style.

📈 How does it get more challenging?

The game starts with a simple match, but more item types and shelf varieties join in over time, so the category sorting gradually gets richer.

👶 What to expect at age 4-9

For the youngest players, the skill is a simple match: "this is a fruit, it goes to the fruit shelf." Older kids learn to tell dairy apart from snacks and to read shelf labels quickly to decide.

🏠 Use at home

• With no penalty at all, a child never hesitates to try, learning through trial and error.
• An adult can voice the category logic by asking "which shelf do you think this goes on?"
• With no time limit, it also fits comfortably into short breaks like a car ride.