Colony Flow! level guide
Colony Flow! Level 174 Walkthrough
Colony Flow Level 174 clears a tall cyan-and-white construction scene around a huge brown beam, two keyhole rows, and a late linked orange/cyan fragment route.
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How to Solve Colony Flow! Level 174 — Full Solution
- Tap white 35 and yellow 33, wait for their ants to leave the lower-left slope, then open cyan 55.
- Tap the brown opener and let it drain through 128/120/111 while following cyan/yellow 29/20/17/7/42. Keep a pad free as brown crosses the diagonal beam.
- Continue brown 103/98/91/85 with cyan 38/35/26/18 and the next small white/yellow groups; the cyan sky should open before the central beam disappears.
- Feed white 60/54/45/35, green 14/12/9/2, yellow 45/39/17/7, and cyan 40/30/26. Leave the blue and yellow keyhole cards for later.
- As the scene fragments, route white 29/16/9, brown 9/4, green 12/9/2, and orange 39/35/25, pausing between colors at the shared hole.
- Use the linked orange 25 and cyan 38 groups to remove the remaining orange dots and long cyan panel bars.
- Finish brown 4/2, green 7/5/2, white 54/16, and orange 14/5/3, then wait for the final cyan/white ants along the right edge.
- Count Victory only after the isolated cyan bars, orange dots, brown beam pieces, and white wall fragments are gone.
Colors in this level:
Cyan, Pale-cyan, Brown, Orange, Yellow, White, Green
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Spending all five pads on white/yellow cards while the brown 128 route still occupies the diagonal beam.
- Clicking the blue or yellow keyhole rows as if they were early stacks instead of waiting for the main cyan/brown route to open them.
- Stopping after the tall panel is gone and skipping the linked orange 25 / cyan 38 cleanup and the final white/brown pieces.
Quick Tips for Colony Flow! Level 174 (spoiler-free)
- Tap white 35, yellow 33, then cyan 55 before opening the brown 128 route.
- Keep both keyhole rows untouched and one white buffer pad empty while brown 128 and cyan 55 share the frame.
- Use the late linked orange 25 / cyan 38 route; the isolated top cluster and cyan bars are not optional cleanup.
Board notes 5 details
- Layout
- The opening art has a pale-cyan sky at upper left, an orange/brown diagonal beam, a tall white-and-cyan middle panel, green canopy blocks at upper right, yellow/orange lower-right pixels, and a white/yellow slope with a small orange-framed cyan square at lower left. Five white buffer pads are empty. The visible grid starts white 40, cyan 45, cyan 55, yellow 47; then yellow 35, brown 33, white 60, cyan 20; then cyan 40, pale-cyan 23, green 14, cyan 30, with white 88 and yellow/blue keyhole tiles deeper down.
- Goal
- Route cyan out of the sky and central panel, brown out of the diagonal and vertical beams, white out of the sloped and right wall sections, green out of the canopy, and yellow/orange out of the lower-right block and beam dots. The true finish is the empty frame after the isolated cyan bars, orange dots, brown beam pieces, and white wall fragments reach the hole.
- Opening
- Start with white 35 and yellow 33, then bring cyan 55 into the active row before the large brown stack. The brown counter falls through 128/120/111/103/98/91/85 while cyan 29/17 and yellow 20/7/42 join the opening route.
- Danger Zone
- Do not fill the five pads with white/yellow cards while brown and cyan ants still cross the diagonal beam. The keyhole rows are late reveals, and the linked orange 25 / cyan 38 cards still need to run after the board has fragmented.
- Mechanics
- Long architectural routing with a huge brown opener, cyan sky traffic, two locked reveals, and a white/orange/cyan separated-fragment finish.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the safest opener for Level 174?
Tap white 35 and yellow 33 first, then cyan 55. The source uses that small opener to make room for the huge brown stack, whose 128/120/111 wave then opens the long route.
Why should the keyhole tiles wait?
The brown diagonal and cyan sky already occupy the shared perimeter. The keyhole rows are deeper reveals; opening them before that traffic clears consumes staging space and hides the central hole.
What is the late linked route?
The video shows orange 25 paired with cyan 38 late in the run. That pair removes the scattered orange dots and cyan panel bars after the main construction scene has broken apart.