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REVIEW
Nut Sort on LG webOS turns a phone-puzzle staple into TV background play.
Valeriy Skachko's color-sort puzzle ports the mobile nut-sort genre to LG TVs. The mechanics travel; the Magic-Remote fit is the question.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Nut Sort is the kind of app that exists because the genre exists. Color-sort puzzles — Water Sort, Ball Sort, Hoop Sort, and now nuts and bolts — have been a top-grossing mobile category since 2019, and the format is easy enough to port that every storefront with a submission queue eventually accumulates a half-dozen variants. Valeriy Skachko’s LG webOS entry is one of those: a clean port of a well-understood loop, dropped onto a platform the loop wasn’t designed for.
The puzzle works. Unscrew a nut, screw it onto a bolt of the matching colour, sort the board into single-colour stacks. The Magic Remote click is a closer analog to the phone tap than the D-pad shuffle most webOS puzzle apps inherit, and the visual swap from liquid to chunky hex nuts reads cleanly at TV distance. Mechanically, this is a fine version of the genre.
What it isn’t is a TV-native puzzle game. The pacing, the session length, the one-handed ergonomics that make these things so sticky on a phone all fight the living-room context. You’ll play it; you might enjoy it. You won’t reach for it before the next streaming app.
Nut Sort is a phone-shaped puzzle blown up to 65 inches — the loop works, the form factor doesn't.
FEATURES
Nut Sort is a single-screen color-sort puzzle in the lineage of Water Sort, Ball Sort, and the dozens of mobile clones that have run the genre since 2019. The board is a row of bolts, each capped by a stack of coloured nuts; the move is to unscrew the top nut from one bolt and screw it onto another bolt whose top nut matches the colour. Solve when every bolt holds a single colour.
The webOS build runs on D-pad and pointer input. Highlight a source bolt with the Magic Remote, click, then highlight a destination — two clicks per move. Levels add bolts, colours, and locked-nut wrinkles as you advance; an undo button sits in the corner.
Free to play, ad-supported in the mobile lineage (no in-app purchases or ad-density data exposed by the LG store listing). No account, no cloud save, no leaderboards visible in the listing screenshots.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The genre travels. Color-sort puzzles are a five-second-onboarding format — anyone who's touched a phone in the last three years already knows the rules, and Nut Sort doesn't try to reinvent them. The visual swap from liquid to nuts-on-bolts gives the board a satisfying tactile read at TV distance: stacked hex nuts in saturated colours are easier to parse across a living room than the more delicate Water Sort tubes.
The Magic Remote pointer is the right input for the format. D-pad navigation on competing webOS puzzle ports is fiddly; clicking a bolt directly is closer to the phone tap that this genre was designed around.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The form factor is the problem. Nut-sort puzzles are designed for a phone in one hand on a couch — 90-second sessions, idle play, one-handed. On a TV, the same loop wants a controller and a coffee, and the cognitive ergonomics drift. You end up either over-committing (TV on, lights down, solving 40 levels) or under-engaging (background play while the news runs, missing obvious moves).
Generic listing metadata is the other tell. No description copy, no release date, no ad-density disclosure, no developer-side polish notes — the kind of LG webOS submission that ships the build and lets the genre sell itself. Fine for what it is; not a sign of a roadmap.
CONCLUSION
Install if you already enjoy mobile color-sort puzzles and want one on the TV for ambient solving — Nut Sort delivers the loop without surprises. Skip if you're looking for a TV-native puzzle game that justifies the screen. The mechanics are competent; the platform fit is the open question.