What should you do first in Magic Sort Level 9?

Open the top bottle that feeds the lower helper lane instead of chasing the easiest-looking outside stack.

What usually goes wrong in Magic Sort Level 9?

If the lower helper lane is still holding a temporary layer by move three, the top row has nowhere clean to recover.

Magic Sort level guide

easy Target: 9 moves 5 colors

Magic Sort Level 9 is the first dense two-row board where the lower row only works if one helper lane stays open through the opening.

Layout: Four crowded bottles sit on top, and the lower row mixes one active helper bottle with two empty flasks and one unfinished side bottle.
Goal: Expose the first lower-row match and turn it into space before the top row starts a second transfer.
Opening: Open the top bottle that feeds the lower helper lane instead of chasing the easiest-looking outside stack.
Danger Zone: If the lower helper lane is still holding a temporary layer by move three, the top row has nowhere clean to recover.
Mechanics: The important mechanic in this layout: Four crowded bottles sit on top, and the lower row mixes one active helper bottle with two empty flasks and one unfinished side bottle. Expose the first lower-row match and turn it into space before the top row starts a second transfer.

Main target: Expose the first lower-row match and turn it into space before the top row starts a second transfer.
First pour reminder: Open the top bottle that feeds the lower helper lane instead of chasing the easiest-looking outside stack.
Avoid this: Spending the lower recovery lane before it has produced a finished bottle.

Open the top bottle that feeds the lower helper lane instead of chasing the easiest-looking outside stack.
Finish that exposed lower-row match immediately, then use the recovered lane to move the next top blocker across the board.
Stay on the main route here: Expose the first lower-row match and turn it into space before the top row starts a second transfer.
For the final cleanup, keep this trap dead: Spending the lower recovery lane before it has produced a finished bottle.

Colors in this level:

Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink

What should you do first in Magic Sort Level 9?
Open the top bottle that feeds the lower helper lane instead of chasing the easiest-looking outside stack.
What usually goes wrong in Magic Sort Level 9?
If the lower helper lane is still holding a temporary layer by move three, the top row has nowhere clean to recover.