How to play Mixmatics
Mixmatics asks you to build a small factory that turns the liquids you have into the ones a customer ordered. Here is how a puzzle works and how to earn all three stars.
The aim
Each puzzle gives you sources of coloured liquid, machines already on the floor, and one or more orders to fill. Connect them so every order receives exactly the liquid it asked for.
A puzzle, step by step
- Read the order: what the customer needs, which liquids you have, and which machines are placed.
- Build the line: place pipes from your inventory, turn pieces, and set valves.
- Press Run and watch every drop travel. Pause, step, or speed up to 4× to see where it goes wrong.
- Fix what leaks and run it again. Undo, Reset and Hint are always there.
The machines
Mixers combine two colours into a new one, heating chambers change a liquid, splitters divide a flow, tanks hold it, filter and one-way pipes control where it can go, and programmable valves release it at the right moment. The output of one machine becomes the input of the next.
Stars and efficiency
One star for filling every order. Two for meeting the puzzle's efficiency target. Three for meeting its toughest target without using a hint. Every run is measured on four numbers, and lower is better on all of them:
- Waste: liquid that never reached an order.
- Energy: power drawn by mixers and chambers while they work.
- Cycles: how many ticks the factory ran.
- Actions: how many changes you made to build it.
Ways to play
The campaign has 200 puzzles in eight chapters and works offline, as do Endless Factory and the Factory Creator. The Daily Challenge, the Weekly Tournament, leaderboards and community puzzles need a connection.