Colony Flow Colony Flow! level guide
Colony Flow! Level 181 Walkthrough
Clear a pixel-art meal featuring a bowl of green soup and dumplings on a patterned mat. Strip outer border tiles and dumpling highlights first to avoid trapping large background boxes in your slots. Watch out for deep yellow and green layers.
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How to beat Colony Flow! Level 181 — full solution
- Send the initial Cyan 25 and Orange 45 into slots. Tap the front-row Light Green 35 and Cyan 40 (far right) to begin clearing outer edge tiles and food highlights.
- Tap Brown 35 and Light Green 40 as they reach the front row. They clear outer rim blocks and lower mat details, exposing inner white and green dumpling shapes.
- Release the revealed Green 29, White 9, and Light Green 22 into slots in any order. Their ants remove the lower-right white dumpling and green dumpling clusters.
- Tap Orange 36 and Cyan 45 from the front row as slots open up. They harvest exposed table mat patterns and cyan border blocks, freeing up additional stack layers.
- Deploy Light Blue 20 and White 11 into slots to clear the remaining light tiles and white dumpling centers, while Orange 16 and Light Green 23 finish the lower details.
- Send Cyan 31, Grey 32, and Cyan 12 into slots. They work on the checkered background tiles behind the bowl, unblocking the inner soup surface.
- Tap Green 25, Light Green 25, and Green 22 as they reach the front row. They clear the bulk of the green soup broth and the outer bowl edge.
- Deploy White 40, Yellow 38, and Yellow 50 into the final open slots in order. Their ants clear the bowl rim and remaining background grid to finish the level.
On this board:
CyanOrangeLight GreenBrownGreenWhiteLight BlueGreyYellow
Moves that cost you the level
- Tapping Yellow 45 from row 2 too early → Yellow blocks form the inner bowl rim and deep background, so the box remains stuck in a slot for most of the solve.
- Filling all five slots with Cyan and Light Blue while the dumplings are still covered → Prevents accessing the white and green boxes needed to strip the foreground.
Quick tips for Level 181
- Always alternate between clearing the foreground dumplings and the background border so slots cycle quickly.
- Hold high-count Yellow and White boxes in the stack until their respective layers are fully exposed across the top half.
Board breakdown5 notes
- Layout
- A pixel-art depiction of a bowl of green soup with dumplings resting on a checkered and woven mat. Five ant slots sit below the image above a multi-row stack of boxes.
- Goal
- Clear all coloured blocks from the picture using matching ant boxes before running out of free slots.
- Opening
- Cyan 25 and Orange 45 start in the slots; activate the front-right Light Green 35 and Cyan 40 to uncover adjacent border and food tiles.
- Trap
- The high-value Yellow boxes buried in the middle of the stack stall in slots if tapped before the soup bowl rim is completely exposed.
- Mechanic
- Ants can only carry blocks that touch an exposed outer edge of the remaining picture.
Level 181 questions
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What should I clear first in Colony Flow! Level 181?
Focus on the lower dumplings and outer cyan border first to reveal inner green and brown layers safely.
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Why do my slots keep getting stuck on Level 181?
You are likely tapping large yellow or green boxes before the foreground food shapes are completely stripped away.