Colony Flow Level 170 brings a vibrant desert scene onto your screen, challenging you to dismantle a prickly green cactus sporting a festive yellow sombrero. The picture features thick swaths of sunny background tiles wrapped around emerald cactus pads, deep purple outlines, and a brightly decorated hat crown. You must manage your five waiting slots with absolute precision to keep the hungry ant stream marching without backing up your tray.
Colony Flow Level 170 Overview
What You Are Working With
Your target on this stage is a large pixel art portrait centered on a desert cactus dressed in a wide Mexican style sombrero. The artwork sits directly above the ant nest and consists of five distinct tile colors. Bright yellow dominates the wide open background and the broad brim of the sombrero. Forest green forms the thick upright trunk and reaching arms of the cactus. Deep purple outlines define the borders between the plant and the hat, while crisp white and rich red tiles make up the decorative band and top ornament of the sombrero.
Below the playfield sits the nest hole, flanked by paths that guide your worker ants straight into the picture. Under the nest area, you have a queue line containing five empty waiting slots. Beneath these slots rests a deep supply tray stacked with numbered colored blocks. Blocks in the top row are ready for immediate selection, while lower blocks remain pinned beneath them until you clear the upper layers.
This stage introduces Connected Boxes in the lower portion of your reserve tray. Connected Boxes feature two individual blocks bound together by a sturdy metallic bracket. When you pull these linked units into your queue, they occupy adjacent waiting slots simultaneously and must be cleared as a group. You also have standard single blocks in various values, ranging from small counts like one and two up to heavy hitters carrying numbers well over thirty.
What It Takes to Clear Level 170 Board
Winning Colony Flow Level 170 requires your colony of ants to eat every single food tile on the board until the backdrop and the central cactus figure vanish completely. Every ant that leaves the nest carries an insatiable appetite for one specific color matching the active block in your waiting slots. As an ant reaches an exposed tile of that color, it consumes the square and decrements the number displayed on the matching block.
The primary danger on this level is slot congestion. You have only five waiting slots. If you fill all five slots with blocks whose colors do not have immediate, open access to matching food tiles on the board, your ants will stop marching. When the ant stream halts and no active block can find its food, your board dead ends and you lose the puzzle instantly. Success depends entirely on peeling the picture from the outside inward, clearing edge tiles to expose underlying layers, and sequencing your tray picks so that your waiting queue stays flowing at all times.
Colony Flow Level 170 Step by Step Solution
Step 1: Open the lower perimeter with initial yellow and green picks
Begin by selecting the exposed yellow blocks and green blocks from your active tray to start breaking through the bottom edge of the board. Tapping the yellow blocks sends a swift wave of golden ants directly into the bottom rows of the background, eating away the lower corners and opening clean lanes toward the cactus base. Follow this immediately by activating an available green block carrying thirty eight points. Green worker ants will rush through the newly made gaps and latch onto the bottom base of the cactus trunk. As the yellow background tiles drop away, lower sections of the cactus outline become reachable. This initial clearance consumes the lower numbers rapidly, keeping your waiting slots completely unclogged while freeing up the next row of blocks in your tray.
Step 2: Carve away the cactus base and expose the dark purple outlines
With the bottom margin opened, select the dark purple block numbered eighteen along with a mid sized green thirty one block from your tray. The purple ants swarm along the paths to eat the lower boundary tiles that frame the foot of the cactus, while your green ants continue chewing through the bottom body of the stem. Watch your queue numbers tick downward as the green count reduces from thirty one down to single digits and your purple block exhausts its supply. As these lower tiles disappear, white tiles nestled near the bottom of the cactus emerge, along with the lower edges of the extended cactus arms. By alternating between the green trunk tiles and the purple boundary tiles, you ensure that every block resting in your five waiting slots has active food to target.
Step 3: Strip the reaching cactus arms and thin the background
Now focus on dismantling the wide arms that jut out from the left and right sides of the cactus. Pull the green thirty eight block and support it with a yellow forty block from the middle shelf of your tray. Yellow ants immediately travel up the outer edges of the play area, clearing away large patches of background sky to create wide channels around both arms. The green ants surge through these expanded corridors and eat both the left and right cactus limbs, reducing the green block from thirty eight down to zero. At the same time, drop a dark purple block into the queue to wipe out the thick outlines surrounding each arm. Clearing these limbs strips away more than half of the green mass on the board and leaves your five waiting slots wide open for the delicate hat section above.
Step 4: Dismantle the sombrero brim and expose the central crown
With the cactus arms eliminated, shift your ant army toward the wide sombrero that spans across the upper middle portion of the board. Tap the yellow thirty five block and the dark purple block from your tray to send fresh waves toward the underside of the hat. The purple ants quickly strip away the dark band that separates the top of the cactus from the bottom edge of the sombrero brim. Meanwhile, your yellow ants eat away the underside wings of the hat, reducing the yellow block count steadily down to single digits. This reveals the bright red and clean white tiles that form the decorative top crown of the sombrero. Keep at least two waiting slots empty during this sequence so incoming blocks from your lower tray have plenty of space to land without causing a bottleneck.
Step 5: Target the decorative red crown and white accents
Your next priority is removing the tight cluster of red and white tiles situated directly at the center peak of the sombrero. Select the red eight block along with the small white eight block that has surfaced in your tray. Red ants charge straight up the center channel, biting into the rounded dome of the hat and whittling the red counter down toward zero. The white ants follow right behind them, eating the small cluster of white accent tiles resting inside the red dome. Because these center tiles cover a small footprint, pair this push with a green ten block to eat the remaining stub of the main cactus stem. Clearing the red and white sections cleans out the entire interior core of the artwork, leaving only the upper yellow brim tips and scattered boundary squares on the board.
Step 6: Deploy the connected boxes to wipe out the hat brim
Look to your tray and activate the Connected Boxes, which feature a yellow block securely linked to a white one unit. Pulling this linked pair places both boxes directly into your queue together, taking up two adjacent waiting slots. The single white ant instantly sprints up and collects the final stray white tile, clearing that half of the connected unit immediately. The linked yellow block then feeds into the thick yellow wings of the upper sombrero brim, accompanied by a loose yellow thirty two block. As the yellow ants strip away the final broad sections of the hat, your waiting queue stays entirely safe because the yellow tiles provide an abundant food source. The connected unit fully dissolves, freeing up critical slots for the final cleanup.
Step 7: Clear the remaining purple trim to complete the board
Only a few isolated dark purple outline tiles and stray background dots remain hanging at the top of the play area. Pull the final dark purple twelve block alongside a small yellow four block from the bottom of your tray. The purple ants march up the cleared center lanes and consume the remaining border tiles around the hat crown, dropping the purple counter from twelve down to zero. The yellow ants clean up the last few flecks of background color in the upper corners. Once the final purple tile is eaten, the entire picture clears from the board, leaving an open field and earning you an undisputed victory on the stage.
Final Thought
Colony Flow Level 170 tests your ability to handle wide color spreads and bulky linked pieces without choking your queue. If any part of the block order or queue management feels difficult to visualize on your screen, take a moment to watch the video walkthrough above this article to see the exact clearing path in motion.
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