Colony Flow Level 248 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 248

Colony Flow Level 248 presents a massive concentric rainbow heart pixel art picture. You need to hollow out this giant shape by peeling away its colorful layers one by one. I found that opening the bottom tip first gives your ants the access they need to sweep around the entire outer edge. This specific level requires careful slot management to avoid a complete jam while working through the thick bands of bright colors.

Colony Flow Level 248 Overview

What You Are Working With

The main attraction on the board is a huge pixel art heart built from concentric colored bands. The outermost edge forms a thick red border around the whole shape. Moving inward from that red border you will find thick rings of orange, yellow, light green, cyan, dark blue, and finally a solid pink center. The nest hole sits directly under the bottom point of the giant heart. The tray at the bottom of the screen gives you a deep queue of numbered blocks in matching colors. The board gives you five waiting slots to manage your pulls.

What It Takes to Clear Level 248 Board

Clearing this board requires you to hollow out the heart starting from the bottom point and working your way up. The ants pour out of the nest hole and attack the lowest point of the picture first. You must feed them the right sequence of colors to break through the outer red and orange rings. Once the bottom tip fully opens up, the ants gain the ability to travel along the outer edge to consume the entire massive red border. You then work your way upward through the middle layers. The heart eventually splits into two separate upper lobes as you hollow out the core. You win the level when you clear the final remaining pixels at the very top of these two separated lobes and the board is completely empty.

Colony Flow Level 248 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Open the bottom tip of the heart to create paths into the inner rings

The very first thing you need to do is break the solid seal at the bottom of the shape. The nest hole sits directly below the sharp point of the heart shape. You pull a red block into your waiting slots to let your ants eat the lowest red tiles. Breaking this tip exposes the orange tiles just inside the red ring. You then pull an orange block to clear those newly exposed orange tiles. This logical progression continues as you pull a yellow block and a light green block. Each color you clear at the bottom tip grants your ants direct access to the next layer inward. You must pull the colors in the exact order they appear from the outside toward the inside. Do not pull a cyan block or a pink block early because your ants cannot reach them yet. Those specific blocks will sit uselessly in your slots and push you closer to a fatal jam.

Step 2: Clear the massive red outer border to free up board space

Once the bottom tip opens completely, the rest of the red outer border becomes fully accessible from underneath. Your ants can now march left and right from the bottom point to travel up the outside edge of the entire heart. You pull your large red 32 block into the waiting area to start this phase. A massive swarm of red ants streams out of the nest hole and wraps around the whole shape. They consume the outer perimeter in one long continuous line. Clearing this thick red border is visually satisfying and removes a huge chunk of the picture very quickly. More importantly, it creates a wide open highway around the entire main board. Your ants now enjoy completely unrestricted access to the orange layer from the outside edges.

Step 3: Hollow out the bottom central layers to reach the pink core

With the outer rim completely gone, you focus your attention back on the hollowing out process at the bottom center. You pull cyan and light green blocks into your waiting slots. The ants rush into the open gap you created during the first step and start eating their way upward into the thickest part of the shape. You will see light blue ants working hard on the cyan layer and green ants tackling the green layer. You must keep pulling blocks that match the currently exposed innermost layers. The ultimate goal here is to reach the dark blue and pink tiles that make up the absolute center of the heart. Always check the lowest exposed point before pulling a completely new block. If you pull a pink block before the cyan and dark blue layers disappear, that pink block will sit trapped in your slot.

Step 4: Push into the center to split the picture into two separate halves

The ants continue pushing upward through the thick middle section of the picture. You pull your pink and dark blue blocks to clear the innermost core right above the nest hole. Because the heart shape dips in the middle at the top edge, clearing the bottom center eventually connects with the empty space at the very top. This continuous hollowing action cuts the whole picture directly in half. The single large heart shape breaks into two distinct upper floating lobes. The ants now possess two completely separate work zones on the left and the right sides of the board. You pull orange and yellow blocks to feed the ants attacking the outer layers of these newly separated lobes. Splitting the main shape is a major milestone because it opens up multiple fresh attack angles for your ant colony.

Step 5: Peel the outer bands off the two remaining top lobes

Now you have two separate floating shapes to dismantle at the top of the screen. Each lobe still retains the original concentric band structure. You pull orange blocks to clear the remaining orange edges on both the left and right sides. Once the orange strips disappear, you pull yellow and light green blocks from the tray. The ants divide their forces perfectly without any extra input from you. Half the swarm marches to the left lobe and the other half marches directly to the right lobe. You can safely pull two different colors at once as long as both colors are clearly exposed on the outer edges of the two lobes. Just watch your five waiting slots carefully during this split phase. Keep at least two slots completely empty so you always have room to react if an inner color unexpectedly blocks your path.

Step 6: Clear the inner cyan and dark blue bands inside the separate lobes

The two lobes are shrinking rapidly as their outer rings disappear entirely. You pull your cyan blocks and dark blue blocks to clear the thick inner arches. The ants swarm over the top curves of the shapes and devour the remaining cool colored pixels. You will notice that small isolated clusters of pink tiles remain trapped inside each lobe. You cannot touch these deep pink tiles until the cyan and dark blue layers surrounding them are completely gone. Hold off on pulling any pink blocks from the tray until you clearly see a path fully open to the pink clusters. Pulling a pink block too early here is a common trap that fills a slot unnecessarily. The dark blue ants need ample time to finish their demanding work before the pink ants can step in and help.

Step 7: Consume the final pink clusters and finish the remaining top edges

The board is nearly entirely clean at this stage. The only things left are the small pink clusters and a few scattered colored tiles along the very top rim of the screen. You pull your pink blocks into the queue to clear out the remaining core sections of the lobes. The pink ants finish the job very quickly because the tile count is low. Finally you pull any remaining red or orange blocks to clean up the very last pixels lingering at the top edge of the board. The ants make one last long trip to the top corners to eat the few remaining stragglers. The entire giant heart picture is completely gone from the screen. The ants finish their routes and the level is successfully complete. You successfully managed your waiting slots and maintained open paths throughout the entire complex hollowing process.

Final Thought

Level 248 takes a lot of patience as you hollow out the giant heart from the bottom point upward. You clear this board by paying close attention to which colored rings are currently exposed to your ants. Keep your waiting slots clear by only pulling blocks that have a direct open path to their matching tiles. I highly encourage you to watch the video above this article if any step is hard to follow in text.