Magic Sort level guide
Magic Sort Level 418 Walkthrough
Magic Sort Level 418 is a five-cork cascade on a tidy two-tier board with ten bottles and a 17-move target. Drain the pink-pink-purple and gray-yellow-orange-red mixers top-down to bank pink, purple, gray, yellow, orange and red, then pop the brown, yellow, cyan, green and blue corks in an order where each released color becomes the trigger for the next.
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How to Solve Magic Sort Level 418 — Full Solution
- Pour the top pink off B1 into B3, then pour the second pink off B1 onto the pink lane in B3 so pink collapses into one bottle and B1 is left holding a single purple segment.
- Pour the top gray off B2 into B4, then pour the now-exposed yellow off B2 onto the yellow cork at T2 to pop it and release the hidden color stack onto the freed T2 slot.
- Use the color just released by the T2 pop to trigger the T3 cyan cork, then pour the released color from T3 onto the T4 green cork to pop it.
- Pour the released color from T4 onto the T5 blue cork to pop it, completing the five-cork cascade.
- Pour the remaining orange off B2 onto the matching orange lane exposed by the last cork pop, then pour the red base of B2 onto the matching red lane.
- Use the three freed cork slots as buffers to merge any leftover released colors onto their matching lanes.
- Top off brown, yellow, cyan, green, blue, pink, purple, gray, orange and red each into a single bottle so all ten positions end on one color with no corks left.
Colors in this level:
Brown, Yellow, Cyan, Green, Blue, Pink, Purple, Gray, Orange, Red
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Popping the corks in left-to-right order instead of cascade order, which burns the only buffer the next cork needs as a trigger.
- Leaving the top pink on B1 untouched, so pink never collapses into a single bottle and the pink lane has to be built from a single released segment.
- Pouring a color other than yellow onto the T2 cork, which keeps the cork sealed and strands the mismatched color on top of it.
Quick Tips for Magic Sort Level 418 (spoiler-free)
- Drain the top pink off B1 into B3 first so pink collapses into one bottle and frees B1 for the purple anchor.
- Pop the yellow cork at T2 second, because yellow is the only cork trigger that is already loose on the board inside B2.
- Pop the cyan, green and blue corks in a cascade order where each released color becomes the trigger for the next cork.
Board notes 5 details
- Layout
- Two tiers, ten bottles, no locks, wraps, boxes or magic. The top row is five corked wooden tubes in a tight line with caps reading brown, yellow, cyan, green and blue left to right — these caps are the five trigger colors hidden behind the corks. The bottom row is five standard bottles. B1 holds a pink-pink-purple three-segment stack, B2 holds a gray-yellow-orange-red four-segment stack, and B3, B4, B5 are three starting empties. The 17-move target is the only move counter on screen.
- Goal
- Pop all five corks in the right order and finish with ten single-color lanes. The real chokepoint is sequencing the pops. B1 and B2 only expose pink, purple, gray, yellow, orange and red, so yellow is the only cork trigger already loose on the board. Every other cork (brown, cyan, green, blue) has to be triggered by a color released from a previous cork pop, so the first three pop orders decide whether the cascade lands cleanly on matching lanes or strands hidden colors on already-mixed bottles.
- Opening
- Pour the top pink off B1 into B3, then pour the second pink off B1 onto the pink lane in B3 so pink collapses into one bottle and B1 is left with a single purple segment. Pour the top gray off B2 into B4, then pour the now-exposed yellow off B2 onto the yellow cork at T2 to pop it. Use the color released by the T2 pop to trigger the T3 cyan cork, then chain through T4 green and T5 blue in that order so each pop hands the next cork its trigger.
- Danger Zone
- Around the third cork pop the board runs out of pre-sorted trigger colors. Popping T4 green or T5 blue before the previous pop has released a matching-color top strands the freed slot on a mismatched color and burns the only buffer the rest of the cascade needs. The other trap is leaving the top pink on B1 untouched — B1 is the only source of pink on the board, and if pink never collapses into a single bottle before the last cork pops, the pink lane has to be built from a single released segment with no second pink to back it up.
- Mechanics
- A pure five-cork cascade on a tidy two-tier board with no other gimmicks. The skill is draining B1 and B2 in the right order to bank pink, purple, gray, yellow, orange and red as the six pre-sorted colors, then popping the five corks in a chain where each released color becomes the trigger for the next pop. Every cork pop costs the buffer used to open it, so the 17-move target is tight and tracks the order of the cascade rather than the number of bottles.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you open the five corks on Magic Sort Level 418?
Pop them in a cascade order where each released color becomes the trigger for the next cork. Start with the yellow cork at T2 because yellow is already loose inside B2, then chain the released colors through the cyan, green and blue corks in that order. Every cork pop costs the buffer used to open it, so the cascade has to hand each freed slot a matching top to keep the 17-move target alive.
Why is the pink-pink-purple mixer at B1 the real anchor in Level 418?
It is the only source of pink on the board. If the top pink never collapses into a single bottle before the last cork pops, the pink lane has to be built from a single released segment with no second pink to back it up, and the cascade stalls on the pink merge.