Colony Flow Colony Flow! level guide
Colony Flow! Level 261 Walkthrough
Clear the pixel art of the word LOVE and a winged heart. Remove the outer white background and black borders first to expose the interior letters and heart. Avoid tapping the red heart boxes before the outer shell is cleared.
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How to beat Colony Flow! Level 261 — full solution
- Tap the White 30 box and White 35 box from the front row while Black 33 and Brown 14 work in the slots. This dispatches ants to strip the outer White border surrounding the letters and heart, opening up access to the underlying structure.
- Tap the White 25 box and Black 35 box from the front row, followed by the Red 25 box once the heart outline becomes reachable. The ants quickly consume the lower frame and begin chipping away at the heart's exterior border.
- Release revealed White 33 from the middle of the stack into an available slot. This keeps a steady stream of ants clearing the remaining white background around the winged heart and exposing the cyan wing blocks on the left.
- Tap the Cyan 21 box that surfaces from the stack into an open slot. The ants target and completely dismantle the cyan wing on the left side of the heart, uncovering the nested interior blocks.
- Tap the Black 24 box, Brown 14 box, and White 24 box into the free slots. Ants carve into the black outlines and the beige-brown core of the LOVE lettering, steadily depleting the upper half of the board.
- Send the Red 25 box and Black 10 box into the slots as previous boxes exhaust their counts. The ants eat through the remaining red heart core and the inner black lattice.
- Tap the Red 30 box, White 35 box, and White 7 box from the front row. Ants finish stripping the remaining red heart fragments and clear out the white infill across the top letters.
- Tap the Black 30 box and final Black 1 box into the remaining slots. The ants carry away the final black border blocks along the top edge to finish the level.
On this board:
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Moves that cost you the level
- Tapping the Red 25 box right at the start → the red heart blocks are completely trapped inside the black outline and white backdrop, causing the box to freeze in a slot.
Quick tips for Level 261
- Focus on stripping the high-count White boxes early since white blocks envelop the entire perimeter of the image.
- Keep at least one slot empty when uncovering mystery boxes to prevent getting locked out when multiple linked or unexpected colours arrive.
Board breakdown5 notes
- Layout
- The pixel canvas depicts the letters LOVE above a heart with a cyan wing on the left. Below the nest are five slots, and under the slots is a five-column stack of ant boxes, many obscured as mystery boxes.
- Goal
- Completely dismantle the LOVE text, winged heart, and background by deploying ant boxes until every block is carried into the nest.
- Opening
- Start by allowing Black 33 and Brown 14 to work on exposed outlines while deploying the front-row White boxes to clear away the large outer boundary.
- Trap
- Deploying Red boxes before the heart's outer black boundary is cleared stalls the red ants with no valid exposed targets.
- Mechanic
- Mystery boxes sit behind the visible front row and reveal their colours and values only after the boxes directly in front of them are deployed.
Level 261 questions
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Why are my red ants not moving on Level 261?
Red blocks form the heart's interior and cannot be collected until the surrounding white background and black framing blocks are peeled away.