Colony Flow! Level 22 Walkthrough

Board Notes

Layout

The board opens in portrait view. The top half of the screen holds a pixel-art teacup: a yellow cup body with a small handle on the left, a dark purple outline wrapping the silhouette, and a pinkish-red tea liquid filling the inside of the cup. Below the dirt strip the working area is a top buffer row plus a 3x3 grid of numbered cube stacks. The top row reads, left to right: a small grey 132 stack, then four empty white buffer slots. The 3x3 grid below reads, top to bottom and left to right: black 22 / magenta 30 / yellow 20 in the first row, magenta 30 / black 25 / red 25 in the second row, yellow 20 / black 20 / white 20 in the third row.

Goal

Yellow cubes from the yellow 20 stacks and any later yellow refills must fill the wide yellow cup body. Magenta cubes from the magenta 30 stacks must fill the pinkish-red tea liquid sitting inside the cup. Red cubes from the red 25 stack and the red 19, red 27, red 30, and red 1 refills that rise into the buffer row must deepen the red center of the tea. Black cubes from the black 22, black 25, and black 20 stacks plus the black 1, black 12, black 18, and black 26 refills must close the dark outline wrapping the cup and the handle. The small grey 132 stack plus the purple 21 refill must finish the dark purple accent cells on the handle, and the white 20 stack plus the white 1, white 26, and white 4 refills must land on the small white highlight cells along the rim.

Opening

The first confirmed tap in the video is the yellow 20 stack at the right of the top row of the 3x3 grid. Yellow 20 is the cleanest single yellow stack on the board and the cup body is the largest single color region in the pixel art, so opening with yellow 20 starts the yellow trail up the dirt path and the front of the cup body starts to close in the first beat. The second confirmed tap is the magenta 30 stack in the middle of the top row of the grid, which dispatches the first magenta wave toward the pinkish-red tea liquid so the inside of the cup starts to color at the same time the cup body is still closing. The player waits for the first yellow ants to clear the bottom edge of the cup before tapping the next stack. The third confirmed tap is the second yellow 20 stack at the left of the third row, which keeps the yellow wave moving and prevents the yellow cup body from stalling halfway. The empty white buffer slots are kept open for the refill waves that start to rise from the lower rows.

Danger Zone

The danger zone is the empty white buffer row above the 3x3 grid. The video shows several refill waves rising into those buffer slots, including a magenta 28, a purple 21, a red 19, a red 27, a red 30, a white 1, a white 26, a small grey 132 stack, and several black refills. The dark purple handle accent and the white rim highlight only stay useful if the buffer row keeps at least one empty slot for the right refill. If the player fills all four buffer slots with yellow or magenta clicks first, the purple 21 and the small white highlight refill are stranded behind the active yellow and magenta ants and the dark purple handle and the white rim cells never close, which leaves a visible purple gap on the handle and a visible white gap on the rim for the rest of the run. The other trap is firing the black 22 stack from the top of the 3x3 grid before the yellow cup body is at least half-closed, because black ants cross the cup body cells that the yellow wave is still filling and stall on the still-empty outline cells at the edge of the art. Tapping the white 20 stack at the right of the third row too early is also bad, because white ants use the same dirt path as the yellow and black ants and a premature white click strands white ants on the still-empty cup body cells.

Mechanics

Level 22 is a multi-stack color-routing board combined with a pixel-art completion goal and a single ant hole. The 3x3 grid plus a five-cell buffer row is wider than the boards in Levels 1-10, with fourteen cells visible at any time and several refill waves rising into the buffer row from the lower rows. The teacup pixel art has four big color families (yellow cup body, magenta tea liquid, black outline, red tea center) plus the small purple handle accent and the white rim highlights, so the player has to keep all of those routes staged at once. The empty white buffer row matters more than on the earlier levels because a small grey 132 refill and a magenta 28 refill both have to land in the buffer before they can be tapped, and those buffer cells are the only staging space for the late purple 21 and the small white highlight refill. so the last small black 18, black 26, and yellow refill waves still need a clean delivery after the bottom of the grid looks clear.