What should you do first in Magic Sort Level 44?

Take the top-row move that leads directly to a finished bottle and leave the shell wall untouched for one more cycle.

What usually goes wrong in Magic Sort Level 44?

The lower middle disappears as soon as the shell wall moves first, because the top row still needs the same route to finish.

Magic Sort level guide

expert Target: 21 moves 6 colors

Magic Sort Level 44 hides its route behind a shell wall in the lower half, but the first honest win still starts in the colored top row.

Layout: Colored bottles crowd the upper row, shell bottles line the lower-left side, and the remaining lower bottles barely leave one clean lane through the middle.
Goal: Finish a top-row anchor before the shell wall is allowed to spill into the lower middle.
Opening: Take the top-row move that leads directly to a finished bottle and leave the shell wall untouched for one more cycle.
Danger Zone: The lower middle disappears as soon as the shell wall moves first, because the top row still needs the same route to finish.
Mechanics: The important mechanic in this layout: Colored bottles crowd the upper row, shell bottles line the lower-left side, and the remaining lower bottles barely leave one clean lane through the middle. Finish a top-row anchor before the shell wall is allowed to spill into the lower middle.

Main target: Finish a top-row anchor before the shell wall is allowed to spill into the lower middle.
First pour reminder: Take the top-row move that leads directly to a finished bottle and leave the shell wall untouched for one more cycle.
Avoid this: Letting the shell wall move before the top row has paid for an anchor.

Take the top-row move that leads directly to a finished bottle and leave the shell wall untouched for one more cycle.
Once the top anchor is set, use it to catch the first shell-side release and reopen the lower middle before the next crossover.
Stay on the main route here: Finish a top-row anchor before the shell wall is allowed to spill into the lower middle.
For the final cleanup, keep this trap dead: Letting the shell wall move before the top row has paid for an anchor.

Colors in this level:

Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange, Pink

What should you do first in Magic Sort Level 44?
Take the top-row move that leads directly to a finished bottle and leave the shell wall untouched for one more cycle.
What usually goes wrong in Magic Sort Level 44?
The lower middle disappears as soon as the shell wall moves first, because the top row still needs the same route to finish.