Colony Flow! Level 11 Walkthrough

Board Notes

Layout

The board opens in portrait view. The top of the screen holds a pixel-art cupcake: a wide bright-pink/magenta frosting body with three small white highlight dots, a single red cherry with a tiny dark stem on the very top, and a short brown/dark cup holder at the bottom. Two dark ant holes sit on a brown dirt path directly below the art. The working area underneath the path is a 5-cell top row followed by a 3x3 grid. The 5-cell top row opens as 15 white, 28 white, 24 black, empty white buffer, empty white buffer. The 3x3 grid below holds 22 red, 25 magenta, 25 magenta in the first row, empty, 30 white, 25 magenta in the second row, and empty, 25 magenta, empty in the third row.

Goal

White cubes from the 15 plus 28 in the top row and the 30 from the middle of the grid must fill the background cells around the frosting, the three small white highlight dots on the frosting, and the small green corner accents. Magenta cubes from the four 25 stacks in the grid must fill the entire bright-pink frosting body. Red cubes from the 22 in the grid plus later red stacks that rise must fill the red cherry on top and the brown cup holder. Black cubes from the 24 in the top row plus the 19 black that rises into the empty buffer slot must fill the dark outline of the cherry stem, the dark outline of the cup holder, and the small green corner accents.

Opening

The first confirmed tap is the 15 white stack at the far-left of the 5-cell top row. White ants leave immediately and start walking the dirt path up to the cupcake art, where the background cells around the frosting start filling one by one. The second confirmed tap is the 28 white stack right next to it, which extends the white background fill across the rest of the art and exposes the two empty white buffer slots at the right. The third confirmed tap is the 24 black stack, which dispatches black ants up the same dirt path to draw the dark outlines of the cherry stem, the cup holder, and the small green corner accents. The 22 red and the four 25 magenta stacks in the 3x3 grid are held in place for one beat so the white and black ant waves can clear the perimeter.

Danger Zone

The danger zone is the moment right after the white 15 and white 28 are drained and the two empty white buffer slots are exposed. If the player fills either empty buffer slot with a 25 magenta click before the 24 black outline is at least half-drawn, the magenta ants share the dirt path with the black ants and stall on the unfilled outline cells, which also blocks the 22 red and the 30 white stacks waiting in the 3x3 grid. The other trap is firing the 22 red before the white background is fully delivered, because red ants have to cross the same dirt path to reach the cherry and the cup holder cells, and a premature red click leaves the cherry half-filled and the cup holder empty. Tapping the 30 white in the middle of the 3x3 grid too early is also bad because white ants have to walk the path while magenta ants are still carrying the frosting, and the white highlight dots on the frosting end up queued behind the magenta traffic.

Mechanics

Level 11 is a multi-stack color-routing board with a pixel-art completion goal and a perimeter-traffic flavor. The cupcake pixel art is wider and taller than the boards in Levels 1-5 because it needs a bright-pink frosting body, a red cherry on top, a brown cup holder, white background cells, and dark outlines all in the same art, so four different color families (white, magenta, red, black) all have to use the same dirt path. The 5-cell top row with two empty white buffer slots is the active queue, and the 3x3 grid below it acts as the supply that refills the active row as the player taps. Compared with Levels 5 and 10, the routing trick here is to drain the two background white stacks first, draw the dark outline, and only then start the magenta frosting traffic. The three round booster buttons at the bottom of the play area are not used on this run.