Sort the pile

Drag the pile into the right baskets. Get it wrong and we'll tell you exactly which garment you just ruined, and why.

Ten things, five baskets, clock running. Go.

Drag each item into a basket — or tap an item, then tap a basket.

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The pile

Whites White cotton, shirts, sheets

Colours & darks Everyday clothes, jeans, activewear

Delicates Wool, silk, lace, stretch

Towels & heavy-duty Towels, bedding, muddy kit, diapers

Not in the washer Dry clean, hand only, or straight-up never

Put it in

Sort by colour first, then by fabric and dirt. Colour keeps dye off your whites; fabric and dirt decide the temperature and how rough the machine is allowed to be.
Anything new and strongly dyed washes alone the first time. Loose dye is at its worst on the first wash and it never asks permission.
Wool and silk are protein. Enzyme detergents digest protein — that's the entire point of them — so they belong nowhere near either.
Fabric softener is wrong more often than it's right: not on towels, not on activewear, and never on flame-resistant baby sleepwear.