Colony Flow! Level 9 Walkthrough

Board Notes

Layout

The board opens in portrait view. The top of the screen holds a pixel-art avocado: a teardrop silhouette with a thick dark-green outer skin, a wide lime-green inner ring, a small dark-green leaf cluster at the top, and a dark-red teardrop pit in the middle of the body. Two dark ant holes sit on a dirt path directly below the pixel art, with a third brown ant hole added to the path after the first tap. The working area underneath is a 5-cell top row plus a 3-cell middle row and a 3-cell booster row at the very bottom. The top row opens as a single light-green 25 stack followed by three empty white buffer slots. The middle row holds a dark-green 35, a light-green 20, and a dark-red 15. The bottom row carries three round booster buttons (green, blue, orange) with counters 25, 25, and 15.

Goal

Dark-green cubes must fill the thick outer skin of the teardrop, the small dark-green leaf cluster at the top, and the dark outline of the pit. Light-green/lime-green cubes must fill the wide inner ring of the avocado body. Dark-red cubes from the 15 stack and brighter red cubes from the 18 stack must fill the teardrop pit in the middle.

Opening

The first tap is the light-green 25 stack in the top-left of the play area, the only stack in the top row at start, which dispatches a green ant up the dirt path toward the lime-green inner ring. After that first tap, the dark-green 35 and the two light-green 20 stacks rise from below into cells two, three, and four of the top row, the middle row turns into white 25, white 25, dark-red 15 (the two white squares are the first buffer pads appearing in the active row), and a third brown ant hole appears on the path. The second tap is the dark-green 35 in cell two, which sends dark-green ants toward the outer skin. The third tap is the light-green 20 in cell three, which opens the lime-green ring more aggressively. The dark-red 15 in the middle row is held in place until the green skin is mostly closed.

Danger Zone

The danger zone is the moment after the dark-red 15 becomes exposed in the active row. If the player taps the dark-red 15 before the dark-green outer skin is at least half-drawn, the dark-red ants share the dirt path with the dark-green ants and stall on the unfilled skin cells, and the white buffer pads then get used to park stranded red cubes that block the next green ant wave. Tapping the second light-green 20 in cell four too early is also risky because it sends two green ant waves back to back into the same path, and the second batch stalls on cells the first batch has not yet filled. Tapping any cube into one of the white buffer pads before the dark-green 35 has cleared the outer skin traps that buffer pad with a wrong color, and the later dark-red or red cubes that need to reach the pit have no clean staging space.

Mechanics

Level 9 is a multi-stack color-routing board with a single-color opener (light-green 25) and a pixel-art completion goal. Almost every stack on the board is some shade of green (light-green 25, dark-green 35, light-green 20, light-green 20, plus more green stacks that rise during the run), with a single dark-red 15 acting as the seed filler and a single red 18 acting as the pit accent. The 5-cell top row with three white buffer slots is the active queue, and the rows underneath act as the supply that refills the active row as the player taps. Compared with Levels 4 and 5, this board is much narrower on color variety (essentially green-only plus a tiny red accent) but wider on green stack count, so the routing trick is to keep the green ant wave going without letting dark-red ants enter the path while the outer skin is still being drawn. The win cue is the completed avocado art, not the play area going empty.