Colony Flow Level 162 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 162

Welcome to Colony Flow Level 162 where we tackle a beautiful pixel art picture of blue flowers sitting in a woven basket. I always enjoy levels that feature bright botanical designs because the massive color sections make it easy to track your progress visually. This board looks simple at first glance but the giant areas of light blue and dark purple can easily jam your waiting slots if you tap blocks too fast. I played through this level multiple times to map out the perfect path and I found the safest route to keep the ants moving and the board entirely open. Let me walk you through the exact moves you need to clear the board without hitting a frustrating dead end. My strategy focuses entirely on controlled pacing so you never risk failing the level right at the end.

Colony Flow Level 162 Overview

What You Are Working With

The board presents a very dense picture made of several distinct color zones that you must carefully pull apart. You have a thick orange border wrapping around the entire main design acting like a rigid frame. Inside that orange border you will find a dark purple background supporting a large woven basket made of brown tiles. The main attractions are the large bright flowers requiring hundreds of light blue ants to fully clear. You also have a few bright green leaves scattered around the base and sides of the flowers. The tray at the bottom of the screen gives you a huge supply of light blue blocks along with green, dark purple, brown, and orange blocks. There are no hidden boxes, connected boxes, or special lock tiles to worry about on this specific board. The main obstacle you face is simply the sheer volume of tiles and the incredibly tight spacing around the outer edges.

What It Takes to Clear Level 162 Board

Clearing this level means systematically dismantling the outer protective layers before you can safely attack the dense floral center. You win the game when every single tile of the flower basket picture is gone and the ants return to their nest. The core rule of the game dictates that you lose immediately if you fill all five waiting slots with blocks that have no open paths to their matching tiles. You must always sequence your block pulls so that at least one color is actively feeding ants onto the board at all times. Success here requires balancing the long tedious tasks like the giant light blue flowers with the shorter border tasks like the orange frame. If you manage your tray well the ants will constantly flow and you will never see a dead end.

Colony Flow Level 162 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Open the bottom edges to create crucial breathing room

You want to start your game by pulling a light blue block, a dark purple block, and a green block from your tray. The ants will immediately stream out of the nest and target the lowest exposed tiles of the picture. The light blue ants head for the bottom right base area while the dark purple ants start chewing directly into the lower left background section. The green ants find a quick path straight to the large leaf sitting at the bottom of the basket. Getting three distinct colors working at the exact same time is the best way to keep your waiting slots from jamming early in the level. These initial blocks have very high numbers so they will take a solid minute to count all the way down. Sit back and watch the ants carve out the bottom corners to expose the inner basket and more of the dark background.

Step 2: Bring in the orange block to tackle the thick outer frame

Once the bottom corners open up, you will finally see a clear open path to the thick orange border that surrounds the entire picture. Pull an orange block into your waiting slots right now. The orange ants will quickly split up and march up both the left and right sides of the frame. This is a very important move because clearing the outer border exposes all the secondary colored tiles trapped behind it. During this busy phase, you should also pull another light blue block to keep the steady pressure on the massive flower petals in the center. Your slots will get very full right about here so you must wait patiently until that first orange block completely finishes before grabbing anything else. Do not panic if you see four or five slots filled as long as the numbers are actively dropping and the ants are flowing outward.

Step 3: Attack the brown woven basket tiles in the lower half

With the orange border heavily reduced and your first dark purple block completely finished, you finally free up enough space to start working on the basket itself. Tap the large brown block in your tray to send a massive wave of brown ants into the lower half of the design. They will systematically dismantle the woven basket pattern moving neatly from the bottom up. At the same time, you need to keep a green block active to clear the middle leaf and the smaller leaves tucked near the right edge of the basket. Your light blue blocks will still be grinding away at the giant blooming flowers. The absolute key here is extreme patience. Let the brown ants do their job and clear out the entire lower middle section before you try to pull the deeper background colors.

Step 4: Sweep the massive dark purple background from the sides

The flowers are now floating mostly on their own but they are surrounded by a massive dark purple background taking up both the left and right flanks. Pull the huge dark purple block into your active tray slot. You will see a giant swarm of dark purple ants flood the board and sweep across the remaining background tiles. This action completely opens up every single remaining edge of the light blue flowers. You might also have a few stray brown tiles left at the top edge of the basket so let the remaining brown ants finish those off quietly. Always verify that your active colors have a clear target before pulling them up from the bottom. The dark purple swarm will take a very long time to finish so rely entirely on this block to keep a path open and completely prevent a sudden dead end.

Step 5: Flood the entire board with light blue for the main flowers

Now that the basket and background are mostly gone, the board consists almost entirely of the giant light blue flower petals. This is the exact moment where you can safely pull multiple light blue blocks from the tray without any fear. You have plenty of open edges all around the flowers so the ants will never get stuck or block each other. Fill your empty tray slots with the remaining light blue blocks and let them aggressively swarm the center area. They will eat away the petals from all sides shrinking the beautiful flowers down to their core center pixels. If you spot any tiny green leaves remaining on the very top edge pull your last small green block to handle them immediately. The massive light blue drain will rapidly empty your waiting slots and give you total effortless control over the end of the match.

Step 6: Clean up the final isolated pixels to successfully finish the board

In the final moments of the level, you will be left with just a handful of scattered individual tiles. You might see a tiny cluster of light blue for the last flower center, a couple of dark purple background pixels, and maybe one single orange piece at the very top right corner. Look closely at the board and pull the exact matching blocks to clear these stubborn stragglers. The ants will take perfectly straight lines to these isolated tiles. Since the board is completely wide open, you do not have to worry about blocked paths anymore. Just feed the required colors to the hungry ants and watch them clear the last pieces of the picture. The screen will suddenly clear and you will successfully beat the level.

Final Thought

This particular board really tests your patience with those high count light blue and dark purple blocks. I know it gets incredibly tempting to just tap everything in the tray the moment you see it, but holding back is the only way to survive the flow. Keep your attention locked on the steady flow of ants and never let those five tray slots fill up without a clearly working color. I highly encourage you to watch the video above this article if you find any step hard to follow in text. Good luck and keep those ants moving beautifully across the board.