The Pool Problem

Filling the pool

The Pool Problem is a first-person incremental game about filling a backyard pool the size of a lake by draining your neighbor’s sea. You start with a spoon, carry water to the pool and get paid by the liter. As the pool fills, the sea pulls back, uncovering shipwrecks, treasure chests and crystal rocks.

From leaves to waterfalls

Before filling the pool, you clear it of autumn leaves with a rake, blower or vacuum that feeds onto a conveyor. You can move water with a sponge, cup, jug, bucket, barrel, wheelbarrow or water vacuum, then set up faucets, pipes, channels and stone waterfalls to carry it. Run, jump, swim and dive around the yard as you work.