Colony Flow! Level 7 Walkthrough

Board Notes

Layout

The board opens in portrait view. The top of the screen holds a pixel-art penguin with a domed cyan head, a rounded white body, two large dark eyes, a small yellow beak, and two short yellow feet. Below the art is a single dirt path with one dark round ant hole. The working area underneath is a 5-cell top row that opens as 5 black, 23 white, 19 white, empty, empty. Below the top row is a 3x4 stack grid holding 23 white, 30 white, 20 cyan, 25 white in the first row, 25 white, 25 white, 5 yellow, 25 white in the second row, and 20 black, 20 black, 30 cyan, 30 white in the third row. The penguin silhouette is empty at the start, with only a few black ants already walking up the dirt path in the first frame.

Goal

White cubes must fill the rounded white body and the small face cells, dark/black cubes must fill the outline of the head, the eyes, and the feet base, cyan cubes must fill the domed cyan head and the two small wing tips, and the two short yellow feet plus the small yellow beak need yellow cubes.

Opening

The first confirmed tap is the 5 black stack on the left end of the top row, which dispatches five black ants up the dirt path to start drawing the dark outline of the penguin. The second tap is the 19 white stack to the right of the 5, and the third tap is the 23 white stack in the middle of the top row, both of which feed the rounded white body. The two empty white buffer slots in the top row are held open during this opening so the cyan 20 from the grid's first row and the cyan 30 from the third row can rise into the active queue once the white and black routes clear.

Danger Zone

The danger zone is the yellow 5 stack in the middle of the grid's second row. It is the only stack on the board that can light up the small yellow beak and the two yellow feet, but the feet sit at the very bottom of the penguin, so tapping yellow before the white body and the dark outline are mostly filled scatters the 5 yellow ants into perimeter traffic and the beak never lights up cleanly. The cyan 30 in the bottom row of the grid is the other trap: it is the largest single cyan stack, and tapping it before the dark outline is in place sends cyan ants into the still-empty body cells where they stall on the right wing tip. The two empty white buffer slots in the top row are also a soft trap, because parking a black stack in a buffer while the white body is still being filled strands white ants behind the parked cube and the body never closes.

Mechanics

Level 7 is a multi-stack color-routing board combined with a pixel-art completion goal and a small 5-cell queue that controls the next dispatch. The 3x4 grid below the queue is the supply, and the active row rises new stacks as old ones drain. Compared with Level 5's rounded mushroom, the penguin art has a much taller cyan head plus a small white body, so the cyan and white ants both have to climb a long vertical path and the player has to wait for the head to be drawn before any wing-tip cube is sent. The win cue is the completed penguin art with the two yellow feet lit, not the play area going empty, so the small yellow 5 and the late cyan waves still need a clean delivery after the lower grid looks clear.