Colony Flow Level 224 Solution & Walkthrough Guide

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Colony Flow Level 224 Solution & Walkthrough Guide

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Colony Flow Level 224 gives you a colorful dessert puzzle that can easily trap your board if you pull blocks without a plan. You must feed your hungry ant colony by clearing a bright pixel picture of a frosted cupcake topped with a red cherry and decorative sprinkles. The real challenge comes from balancing your five waiting slots so that your workers always have an open path to the exposed food tiles. With the right order of moves, you will keep the colony marching smoothly until every crumb disappears.

The picture on this board depicts a decorated pastry complete with deep red and magenta ridges on the wrapper, multiple layers of swirling pink icing, and a bold red cherry with a green stem at the top. Surrounding the pastry is a sunny yellow backdrop accented with cyan corners and several small orange stars.

Below the board, you have a nest hole where lines of worker ants stream out to harvest matching food tiles. Beneath the nest sits a row of five empty waiting slots. Under those slots rests your block tray, organized in vertical columns filled with numbered, colored blocks. You have blocks in green, cyan, yellow, orange, pink, light pink, magenta, deep crimson, and dark red. Every block holds a counter that drops by one each time an ant carries a matching food tile back down into the nest.

Worker ants can only walk on cleared areas or perimeter paths around the image. They cannot chew into the middle of the cupcake until you strip away the outer tiles first. If a block enters one of your five waiting slots and cannot find any exposed tiles of its color, it sits there idle.

Winning this level requires you to completely clear all food tiles from the board without jamming your five waiting slots. If all five slots fill up with blocks that have no valid targets, your colony stops moving and you lose immediately.

To prevent this failure state, you must always look ahead at what colors are currently exposed on the outer edges of the picture. Early in the level, the pastry itself is completely blocked by the surrounding background tiles and outer wrapper borders. That means pulling an interior icing color like light pink or deep crimson before peeling off the exterior edges will strand that block in a waiting slot. You clear this board by peeling the image like an onion, working from the outside borders inward until the entire cupcake vanishes.

Your opening move must target the outer edges of the image because those are the only tiles your worker ants can reach right now. Begin by pulling the green block with a value of 6 from the top of the second column, which sends green workers straight up along the side to eat the exposed green cherry stem. Next, take the cyan block with a value of 24 and place it into your waiting slots to attack the bright cyan corners on the right and left sides. Follow up by drawing the yellow 51 block and the orange 27 block. As your cyan, yellow, and orange ants march along the open exterior paths, the numbers on those blocks begin counting down rapidly. The orange block quickly drops down toward 1 as the small decorative stars disappear from the outer frame. Because all four of these colors have immediate targets on the board, your waiting slots remain active and clear without causing a traffic jam.

Now that the outer lanes are open, you need to dig deeper into the upper background so your ants can reach the top layers of the cupcake. Pull another cyan block from your tray, dropping its count from 43 down into single digits as ants chew through the remaining blue sky tiles. Bring in an orange block showing 13 to clear out the remaining orange sparkle tiles near the upper corners. Keep the yellow block active as your yellow ants clear the top left background section. As these background tiles vanish, you expose the outer contours of the frosting and the edges of the pastry wrapper. Watch your waiting slots carefully during this phase. Always make sure a cyan or yellow block has clear line of sight to matching tiles before you drop it into a slot, ensuring that at least two slots remain open for upcoming color shifts.

With the bottom corners of the background cleared away, the lower portion of the cupcake wrapper is finally exposed to the ant trails. Pull the magenta 22 block and the deep red 15 block from your tray into your waiting slots. Worker ants will immediately stream around the bottom perimeter of the board, chewing directly into the vertical ridges of the base. The deep red block counts down steadily as the bottom base tiles crumble into dust. By targeting the base right now, you release columns of blocked tray pieces beneath them, opening up access to fresh pink and cyan blocks below. Keeping the base moving also prevents your slots from stalling, since these wrapper tiles are clustered in thick, accessible vertical columns.

Continue your assault on the base by pulling the dark red 10 block and the magenta 23 block from the newly uncovered rows in your tray. Your ants will swarm the dark ridges, chewing away the bottom teeth of the wrapper until the lower frame of the picture is wide open. The magenta block count drops from 20 down toward zero as the side ridges of the cup dissolve. As these dark tiles disappear, you unlock direct access to the lower frosting layers above. Always check that the dark red tiles on the board have fully cleared before pulling any second dark red block, which prevents dead blocks from taking up space in your five waiting slots.

Step 5: Peel away the main pink frosting layers and clear the decorative sprinkles.

Now that the wrapper is gone, the rich pink icing across the middle of the cupcake is completely vulnerable. Pull the pink 17 block and the bright magenta 11 block from your tray. Ants dressed in pink will stream upward through the empty space where the wrapper used to sit, eating broad horizontal sweeps of frosting. Among the pink icing, several cyan and yellow sprinkles will become uncovered. When these sprinkles become exposed, pull a small cyan block and a yellow block to let your workers snap them up. The pink block counts down from 17 to single digits as large chunks of the middle pastry disappear. Your board now has massive open pathways, making it much easier for ants to reach any tile without getting stuck behind obstacles.

With the middle icing stripped away, your ants can easily march to the very top of the board to consume the cherry. Pull the deep crimson block showing 14 along with the remaining green block showing 4. The red workers will swarm the rounded cherry, chewing away its glossy surface until only scattered frosting remains underneath. At the same time, green ants finish off the base of the stem. As the cherry dissolves, pull a light pink block from your tray to clear the highest curve of frosting just beneath where the fruit was sitting. Watch the counters drop as the entire upper structure of the dessert collapses.

Step 7: Clear out the remaining scattered frosting clusters across the center.

At this stage, the picture is broken into small, isolated clusters of pink, magenta, and light yellow tiles floating across the center and upper left. Pull the remaining pink 11 block and the magenta block into your waiting slots. Send your ants straight into the remaining chunks of icing. The numbers on these blocks will drop smoothly toward zero as the workers carry off the final crumbs of the pastry filling. Because you opened up wide pathways across the entire board earlier, your ants can reach these floating islands from any direction, guaranteeing that none of your active blocks get stalled in the waiting slots.

Only a few yellow tiles in the upper left corner and a couple of stray orange and pink crumbs remain on the board. Pull your final yellow block showing 14, followed by the orange 7 block and the pink 3 block to collect the last pieces. The yellow workers stream into the top corner, steadily devouring the final backdrop square by square. The counter on your yellow block reaches zero just as the last yellow tile vanishes from the board. With the entire picture completely cleared and every waiting slot emptied out, your ant colony finishes the board and you achieve complete victory.

Patience and perimeter awareness are the keys to mastering this level. Always peel away the surrounding background before you dive into the dense center layers of the pastry, and you will never have to worry about filling up your five waiting slots with useless blocks. If you find yourself getting stuck on any particular color transition, be sure to watch the video walkthrough above this article to see the exact block pulls in real time.