Colony Flow Level 1240 presents a beautiful nighttime mushroom village that will test your patience if you move blocks carelessly. The board features a sturdy Hungry Door protecting the lower houses and several connected boxes in the lower tray that can easily clog your queue. You must balance clearing the open upper canopy while steadily feeding the Hungry Door so your ants never run out of active targets.
Colony Flow Level 1240 Overview
What You Are Working With
The picture on this board depicts a tranquil woodland scene featuring cozy mushroom cottages nestled under a starlit evening sky. A grand central mushroom towers above smaller rounded homes that glow with warm yellow windows. Dark forest silhouettes and winding tree branches frame the edges, backed by patches of vivid cyan and deep blue night sky alongside mystical purple clouds. The nest hole sits directly underneath the display, sending steady streams of worker ants marching outward along whatever paths you unlock.
Between the nest hole and the block supply rests your five slot holding zone. These five waiting slots represent your entire margin for error. If all five slots fill with blocks that have no reachable matching food tiles, your colony stalls and you instantly lose the stage. Below this holding zone sits a dense tray packed with color coded resource blocks. You will work with dark grey blocks for the silhouetted forest trees, blue and cyan blocks for the atmospheric sky, warm brown blocks for the mushroom caps, peach blocks for structural stems, purple blocks for the magical night mist, and yellow blocks for the glowing windows.
Two special mechanics govern how this board behaves. The first is a group of connected boxes located within the lower rows of the tray. These linked blocks share physical bars, which means pulling one half drags its partner along or requires you to resolve both sides before the tray settles. The second major mechanic is the Hungry Door. A solid purple barrier surrounds the lower village, displaying a counter set to eight at the top right corner. The door stays completely shut, denying your ants access to the lower mushroom structures until your purple ants consume eight required purple food tiles elsewhere on the board.
What It Takes to Clear Level 1240 Board
Clearing this level requires strict route management and spatial discipline. Because the Hungry Door seals off the entire bottom half of the illustration, any block you draw that only targets the lower houses will sit completely inert in your waiting slots. That means drawing brown or peach blocks too early risks a fatal jam. You must focus your initial efforts entirely on the upper tree branches, the perimeter sky, and the high purple mist.
Your primary objective during the opening phase is lowering the Hungry Door counter from eight down to zero. You achieve this by assigning purple blocks to eat the accessible purple mist along the outer borders. Once those eight purple units vanish, the purple barrier drops away. That opens broad highways directly into the bottom mushroom village. From there, you must guide your ants through the dense brown caps, navigate the tricky connected boxes in your tray without overcrowding your five waiting spaces, and finally deploy yellow workers to collect the glowing windows. When the final food tile disappears, your colony completes the puzzle.
Colony Flow Level 1240 Step by Step Solution
Step 1: Open the upper canopy with dark grey and blue blocks
Begin by pulling the exposed dark grey blocks and vibrant blue blocks from the top layer of your tray. The dark grey ants will immediately scramble up the left and right outer borders to chew through the silhouetted tree branches, while the blue ants head toward the upper night sky. Watch the numbers on these blocks rapidly tick down as your workers consume the midnight backdrop. By targeting only the fully exposed upper borders, you ensure that every single ant maintains a clean path to its food source. This keeps your five waiting slots completely open and circulating, preventing any early congestion while revealing the secondary rows in your tray.
Step 2: Route purple ants to work on the Hungry Door requirements
Now that the outer pathways have expanded, immediately select the purple blocks uncovered near the upper center of the tray. These purple blocks send workers directly toward the purple clouds floating beside the central mushroom. Look closely at the purple Hungry Door indicator at the top right of the village border, which starts at eight. As your purple ants devour the accessible cloud segments along the upper flanks, this counter ticks down toward two. Keep sending blue and dark grey reinforcements whenever a holding slot empties, but keep purple at the center of your strategy so you can bring down that barrier as quickly as possible.
Step 3: Chew through the central mushroom cap using brown blocks
With the sky nearly stripped away, the broad dome of the central mushroom stands open and vulnerable. Pull a brown block holding thirty points to send a large contingent of brown ants directly into the upper mushroom roof. The ants will march up the central trunk and spread out across the brown cap tiles, carving away the dense cluster of food. Because the upper cap sits entirely outside the Hungry Door, these brown workers have unobstructed access and will not get stuck. Monitor your waiting slots carefully during this push, ensuring you always keep at least two empty spaces ready to absorb upcoming transitions.
Step 4: Manage the connected boxes while keeping holding slots free
As your tray empties deeper into the lower ranks, the linked connected boxes come into play. These joined units require extra caution because moving them interacts with neighboring columns and takes up critical board real estate. Clear surrounding single blocks first, including lingering blue and dark grey units, so you have ample room in your waiting row. When you finally engage the connected boxes, verify that the corresponding colors have active paths on the picture. The linked yellow and peach components must find immediate destinations so they do not sit idle in your queue. Letting connected pieces stall your holding bays will cause a fast defeat, so only draw them when their matching paths are open.
Step 5: Collapse the Hungry Door to unlock the lower mushroom settlement
Deliver your final purple blocks to consume the last remaining purple requirement tiles along the midsection of the board. The Hungry Door counter drops from two to zero, causing the purple barrier around the village to dissolve completely. The entire lower half of the picture now becomes accessible terrain. Paths instantly open toward the smaller mushroom roofs, the supporting stems, and the surrounding foundation. Do not rush to fill all your slots at once. Instead, draw a fresh dark grey block and a brown block to establish your initial worker lanes into the newly opened territory.
Step 6: Flood the interior village with dark grey and brown workers
Direct your ants straight into the heart of the lower village. Brown ants will begin tearing into the smaller mushroom caps, while dark grey ants systematically devour the framing outlines and ground shadows. As these blocks count down and vanish from your waiting slots, pull the thirty six brown and forty dark grey reserves waiting in the bottom rows. The picture clears at an impressive rate as your ants swarm through the opened corridors. Because the barrier is gone, your workers move smoothly between the upper stalk and the lower buildings without meeting a single dead end.
Step 7: Clear the illuminated windows and wipe the remaining board clean
Finish the puzzle by pulling the yellow block and the remaining peach accents to dismantle the final details. Yellow ants march straight into the cottage windows, picking up the bright food tiles that gave the village its warm glow. Simultaneously, peach ants polish off the remaining mushroom stems while tiny residual dark grey and blue squads clean up any stray boundary pixels. Each waiting slot empties out one after another until zero blocks remain in your tray and zero food tiles linger on the board.
Final Thought
Colony Flow Level 1240 demands respect for its Hungry Door, but once you unlock that purple gate, the rest of the board falls into place naturally. Always prioritize the colors that feed active barriers before you commit to interior structural tiles. If any part of this route felt tricky or you want to see the timing of the connected boxes in motion, be sure to watch the video above this article to follow along move for move.
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