Magic Sort level guide
Magic Sort Level 228 Walkthrough
Magic Sort Level 228 is a single wooden Lock Box stacked over six bottles with one corked yellow-brown in the middle. Crack the box with the cyan top off B1 to release a fresh top tier of five mixers, pop the brown cork off B3 by pouring brown out, then drain the merged two-tier board through the bottom singles until all eleven bottles hold a single color.
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How to Solve Magic Sort Level 228 — Full Solution
- Pour the cyan top off B1 (cyan-green) into the wooden box to match the blue token and crack the box, dropping the new top tier of five mixed bottles in.
- Peel the brown off B3 by pouring it onto a matching top in the new top row, exposing the yellow under the cork.
- Use the freed B3 plus the bottom singles (yellow, green, purple, orange) as the receiving lanes for the new top mixers.
- Drain the five new top mixers top-first, sending each exposed segment onto a matching bottom color or into the freed B3 buffer.
- Keep every temporary flask single-color and clear it back onto a real stack before reusing it.
- Top off each bottom lane (green, orange, purple, red, cyan, yellow) so it becomes a clean stack of one color.
- Finish by topping off the last top-row bottles (gray, red, blue, pink, brown) so all eleven bottles end on a single color.
Colors in this level:
Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Purple, Yellow, Brown, Red, Pink, Gray
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Pouring a non-trigger color into the wooden box, which locks the real trigger cyan out and keeps the new top tier sealed away.
- Trying to lift the cork on B3 directly, or parking a wrong color on B3 while brown is still buried, which strands brown under a wrong-color cap.
- Letting a new top pour bury a bottom single, which strands an original color you still need to finish the sort.
Quick Tips for Magic Sort Level 228 (spoiler-free)
- Pour the cyan top off B1 into the wooden box first to release the new top tier of five mixers.
- Pop the cork on B3 by pouring its buried brown onto a matching top, exposing the yellow under it.
- Keep every bottom single strictly one color and clear it onto a real stack before reusing it.
Board notes 5 details
- Layout
- Single tier at start — one wide wooden Lock Box at the top (with a small blue token marked "2") and six bottles in a single row beneath it. B1 is cyan-over-green, B2 is orange-over-purple, B3 is a corked yellow-brown, B4 is a near-empty purple, B5 is a near-empty green, and B6 is a full yellow. No starting empties and no second tier is visible until the box cracks. After the unlock the board becomes a two-tier setup with the new five top mixers above the original six bottom bottles.
- Goal
- Crack the wooden box first so the new top tier lands, then sort every color into a single bottle across both rows. The first unlock is the box — pour its trigger color in and the top mixers appear, opening the real game. The second unlock is the cork on B3, which hides brown under yellow and has to be cracked by pouring brown out, not by lifting the cork.
- Opening
- Pour the cyan top off B1 (cyan-green) into the wooden box to satisfy the blue token and crack it, dropping the new top tier of five mixers in. Once the top row lands, free the cork on B3 by pouring its brown onto a matching top, exposing the yellow. Use the freed B3 and the bottom singles (yellow, green, purple, orange) as the first set of receivers for the new top mixers.
- Danger Zone
- Pouring a color other than the trigger color into the box traps that color with the padlock and leaves the real trigger with no legal unlock, so the box stays sealed and the new top tier never appears. Cracking the cork on B3 wrong — by trying to lift the cork directly or by parking a wrong color on B3 while brown is still buried — strands brown under a wrong-color cap and kills the yellow lane. The bottom row carries every original color, so any new top pour that buries a bottom single strands a color you still need.
- Mechanics
- A single wooden Lock Box that opens on a color trigger plus one corked bottle on an otherwise tidy base row. The box reveals the second tier, the cork hides brown under yellow, and the puzzle is sequencing the box crack, the cork crack, and the merged-tier sort in that exact order. The skill is reading the box token, picking the right cyan pour, and keeping the bottom singles single-color so they can absorb the reveal before the new mixers drown them.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you open the wooden box in Magic Sort Level 228?
Pour the cyan top off B1 (cyan-green) into the wooden box to match the blue token on the box. The box cracks and the new top tier of five mixed bottles drops into the row above the original six.
Why is the corked yellow-brown bottle the second bottleneck in Level 228?
It hides brown under yellow, so you cannot finish B3 by clearing yellow first. Pour the brown out onto a matching top in the new tier, expose the yellow, and only then can the yellow lane grow into a single-color stack.