Get help with Sluiceway, the canal-lock boat puzzle.
Sluiceway is an iOS and Android puzzle: open and close sluice doors, pumps and gates to move water between canal basins until every boat floats to its pier. It has 153 canals in nine harbour worlds, a Daily Canal with a streak, an endless Harbour Master mode and a Boatyard of 36 boats you earn with coins from playing, is free to play with ads, has no accounts, and works offline. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
Yes. Sluiceway is free to play, with ads served by Google AdMob: a banner on the home screen and below the canal, and a full-screen ad after some completed canals. You can earn ad-free play each month by watching short videos, or go ad-free every month with an optional monthly subscription.
Tap a gate wheel to open or close it. Water in basins joined by open doors settles to one level, so opening a door lets water flow to the lower side, and a boat can sail through an open door only when it floats on both sides. Lift every boat to the height of its pier and it docks. Later harbours add one-way doors, pumps that lift water uphill, leaky doors, tides, heavy freighters, interlocked gate pairs and springs. Fewer moves earn more stars (three stars for the shortest solution). Undo and restart are free, and there are no timers and no lives.
Open Ad-free from the menu and watch short rewarded videos. A progress bar shows how many videos you have watched this month and the date it resets. Reaching the goal turns ads off until that date. Watching is always your choice.
Ad-free Monthly is US$2.99 per month (local price shown in the store). It renews automatically every month until you cancel, and it removes ads for as long as it is active.
iPhone and iPad: Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Sluiceway > Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play > Profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Sluiceway > Cancel subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Open Ad-free in the app and tap Restore purchases. You need to be signed in to the same Apple ID (iPhone and iPad) or Google account (Android) that subscribed.
Yes. The game plays fully offline; only ads and subscription checks need a connection.
The app has no accounts and no servers of ours, and your progress stays on your device. It shows ads served by Google AdMob, which may use your advertising ID. Where the law requires it the app shows Google’s consent form, and on iPhone and iPad it asks permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. See the Privacy Policy.
Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement on iPhone and iPad, and the Google Play Terms of Service on Android.
Progress is stored on your device, so it does not carry over to a new device or after an uninstall.
Email bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com and tell us your device, the app version and what happened.