Colony Flow! Level 14 Walkthrough

Board Notes

Layout

The board opens in portrait view. The top of the play area holds a pixel-art cluster of three red cherries: two cherries side by side at the bottom and a third cherry stacked on top, all sharing a single dark stem and crowned by two small green leaves. A single dark round ant hole sits on a dirt path directly below the cherries. The working area underneath the path is a four-row stack grid. The top row opens with only two filled slots — Red 25 at the left, Black 15 next to it — followed by three empty white buffer slots on the right. The second row holds Red 25, Black 20, Green 20. The third row holds Red 25, Black 20, and a third Red 20. The fourth row holds Red 30, Black 25, and a single White 5. The cherries are completely empty at start and only their outline grid is visible.

Goal

The four Red 25/25/25/30 stacks in the leftmost column plus the third-row red 20 must fill the bright red cherry bodies. The Black 15/20/20/25 stacks in the middle column must draw the dark outline that wraps the cherry silhouette and the shared stem. The two Green 20 stacks in the right column must fill the two small green leaves above the stem, and the single White 5 in the bottom-right of the grid must land in the small highlight cross on the front of each cherry.

Opening

The first confirmed tap is the Red 25 at the leftmost slot of the top row. One red ant leaves immediately and starts walking the dirt path up to the leftmost cherry, and the count drops to 24. The next tap stays on that same Red 25 to send a second wave of red ants toward the cherries, and the Black 15 at the top of the middle column is then tapped to send the first black ants up to the dark outline of the cherry silhouette. Once the column-3 buffer slot opens, a green stack rises into the buffer row from the lower rows and the player taps it next so the green leaves start filling at the same time the cherry bodies are being closed. The player keeps tapping the visible Red and Black stacks in the top row as new reserves rise from below, in roughly the order Red → Black → Red → Green so all three colors feed the cherries in parallel.

Danger Zone

The danger zone is the three empty white buffer slots in the top row, especially the rightmost one. New stacks rise into those empty slots as the lower rows feed upward, and the correct play is to let the next color in the routing order land there. If the player taps the Red 25 three or four times in a row without ever firing the Black 15, the cherry bodies fill in faster than the outline, and the dark outline cells get stranded behind the red ants on the perimeter. The other trap is firing the Green 20 before the column-3 buffer slot has a clear route, because green ants use the same dirt path as red ants and a premature green click stalls the green leaves on still-empty body cells. The single White 5 in the bottom-right of the grid is also tempting to fire early, but it is the only highlight color and tapping it before the red bodies are mostly closed scatters the white ants on the perimeter.

Mechanics

Level 14 is a multi-stack color-routing board with a strong pixel-art completion goal and a perimeter-traffic flavor. The cherry pixel art is denser than the tea cup in Level 13 because the entire silhouette is one connected shape, so the dark outline has to be drawn at almost the same time the red bodies are filled. The 4-row stack grid is the same height as Level 10 and Level 13, but the active top row starts with only 2 of 5 slots filled, which means the first few taps have a huge impact on which color wave opens the route. The single Red 25 + Red 25 + Red 25 + Red 30 column is the dominant red mass and accounts for most of the cherry body color, while the Black 15 + Black 20 + Black 20 + Black 25 column handles the entire outline. The Green 20 + Green 20 (the second rises from the third row) plus the lone White 5 are the smallest stacks and have to be slotted in at the right beat so the leaves and the small highlight cross close cleanly. The win cue is the full three-cherry silhouette with green leaves, not the play area emptying, so the last few small stacks (around Red 1, Green 3, White 1) still need a clean delivery even after the bottom of the grid looks clear.