🥤 Cup Shuffle

How to play Cup Shuffle

How to play

Cup Shuffle is the classic shell game, polished for quick rounds. Each round starts with the ball shown under the middle cup for just over a second — memorize it. The cups drop, then slide around each other in a flurry of swaps. When they stop, tap the cup hiding the ball. Guess right to bank points, level up, and face a faster shuffle with more swaps. A wrong guess costs one of your three lives while the ball is revealed — lose them all and the game is over.

Controls

Tap or click a cup to make your guess. On a keyboard, press 1, 2 or 3 for the left, middle and right cups, or use the Left and Right arrows to highlight a cup and Enter to choose it. Press Enter on the start screen to begin, and Play Again (or Enter) after game over. Every control works on phones, tablets and desktops.

Tips

Don't try to watch all three cups — lock your eyes on the single cup hiding the ball and follow only it; your brain tracks one moving object far better than three. Later levels add more swaps and speed, so trust the smooth motion rather than the final lineup. Resist second-guessing after the cups stop: your first instinct, tracked live, beats a last-second switch almost every time.

Scoring

Each correct guess scores 100 points times your current level, so level 3 pays 300 and level 10 pays 1,000 — hot streaks snowball fast. You have 3 lives, and a wrong guess costs one. There is no timer, so take a breath between rounds. The shuffle starts at 4 slow swaps and grows by 2 swaps plus extra speed every level.