Colony Flow Level 270 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 270

Colony Flow Level 270 presents a beautiful pixel art picture of a pink lotus flower resting on a large green lily pad. You have to carefully carve out the outer edges of this picture before you can safely send your ants into the dense center of the flower. This board requires strict block management because the large solid color sections can easily trap your ants if you pull the wrong colors too early. You will need a patient approach to keep your waiting slots open from start to finish.

Colony Flow Level 270 Overview

What You Are Working With

The picture at the top of your screen features a bright pink and red lotus flower sitting on top of a massive green lily pad. The flower and the leaf are surrounded by dark blue water outlines and light blue water ripples at the bottom. The top section of the board contains purple and white sky elements forming a border around the flower.

Your tray at the bottom of the screen holds all the colored numbered blocks you need to feed your colony. You start with visible red, dark blue, pink, and light blue blocks in the front row. Right behind these visible blocks you will see several grey hidden boxes marked with question marks. These hidden boxes conceal their true colors until you clear the blocks sitting directly in front of them. The nest hole is located at the bottom center of the screen right above your five empty waiting slots.

Your ants will emerge from the nest hole and seek out a path to the food tiles that match their color. They can only travel through empty space. Because the picture takes up almost the entire board at the start your ants must travel around the extreme outer edges to reach the top. You have to plan your moves based on what tiles the ants can physically walk to without hitting a dead end.

What It Takes to Clear Level 270 Board

To win this level you must clear every single colored tile from the picture while keeping your five waiting slots from jamming. You pull a colored block from the tray into an empty slot and the ants start eating. Each block has a number that counts down as the ants consume the matching tiles. The block disappears from your slot only when the number hits zero.

If you fill all five waiting slots with colors that have no open path to their matching tiles the ants will stop moving. When no ants can clean the board and your slots are full you lose the level instantly. You have to match the right blocks to the right exposed tiles so the ants always have a continuous path to travel. Success on this board means slowly dismantling the outer sky and water borders before moving your ants into the heavy green leaf and pink petals in the center.

Colony Flow Level 270 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Open the top left sky border with purple blocks

Begin by pulling a purple block into your waiting slots to target the sky tiles on the upper left side of the board. The purple ants will crawl out of the nest hole and march all the way up the left edge of the picture. They will form a long continuous line as they travel to the top corner. This is a very long travel distance so you will have to wait a moment for the ants to reach their destination. Keep your remaining waiting slots empty while the purple block number counts down. Opening this left side is your first major priority because it creates a clear travel route for the next wave of ants.

Step 2: Send pink ants to the top lotus petals

Once the left side path is established you can pull a pink block into your tray. You will notice the pink blocks carry very high numbers like forty or forty nine. The pink ants will follow the exact same route up the left side that the purple ants just used. They will bypass the green lily pad completely and target the top edge of the pink lotus flower. Because the block number is so high this process takes a significant amount of time. You must exercise patience here. Do not pull any other colors into your tray yet. You want the pink ants and purple ants to steadily eat away the top of the picture without risking a slot jam.

Step 3: Reveal the hidden boxes in the tray

As you use the blocks from the front row of your tray you will expose the grey question mark boxes behind them. Whenever a hidden box gains empty space in front of it the box flips over to reveal a new colored block. You must watch these reveals closely. Sometimes a newly revealed block will be a color you cannot use yet. Do not pull a block just because it appeared. Always check the board to ensure the ants have a completely clear path to those specific colored tiles. Managing these revealed blocks properly keeps your waiting slots safe.

Step 4: Clear the dark outlines at the bottom

You need to widen the main entrance around the nest hole to improve the flow of your colony. When you have a free waiting slot pull a dark blue or black block to target the dark water outlines at the bottom of the picture. The dark ants will come out and immediately start eating the border tiles right above the hole. This is a highly efficient move because the travel distance is incredibly short. The dark block will count down rapidly and free up its waiting slot. Clearing this bottom barrier exposes the light blue water ripples and the bottom edge of the green lily pad for your future moves.

Step 5: Attack the left side of the green lily pad

With the left edge and bottom edge now partially clear you can safely start working on the massive green leaf. Pull a green block into your tray. The green ants will follow the left path and start biting into the thick green section of the lily pad. The green area is huge and will require multiple blocks to completely clear. You can pull two green blocks at the same time if you have enough empty waiting slots. The green ants will steadily carve a large chunk out of the left side of the leaf. This opens up even more space for other ants to navigate the board.

Step 6: Clear the right side sky and water border

You must mirror your earlier strategy to open up the right side of the board. Pull another purple block and a dark blue block into your tray. The ants will now path around the right edge of the board to eat away the remaining sky tiles and dark border outlines. Having both the left and right sides of the board wide open gives your ants multiple angles of attack for the center of the picture. Watch the numbers on your blocks drop as the dark blue and purple ants find their targets. Keep an eye on your waiting slots and always leave at least one slot completely empty just in case.

Step 7: Flood the light blue water ripples

By this stage the dark bottom border is mostly gone and the light blue water tiles are fully exposed near the nest hole. Pull a light blue block into your tray. A huge swarm of light blue ants will flood the bottom middle of the board and rapidly consume the water ripples underneath the lily pad. Because these tiles are positioned right next to the nest hole the light blue block will drain extremely fast. You can pull a second light blue block right after the first one finishes. This clears out a huge portion of the bottom board and sets you up for the final push.

Step 8: Consume the red lotus center

The pink ants have cleared most of the outer flower petals which finally exposes the dark red tiles in the center of the lotus. Pull a red block into your empty waiting slot. The red ants will march straight up the middle of the board through the space you cleared earlier. They will eat the dark red core of the flower. Make sure the red block counts all the way down to zero. The entire top half of your board should now be completely empty and free of any tiles.

Step 9: Finish the green leaf and final tiles

Your board is now mostly empty except for the right side of the green leaf and a few scattered dark outline pieces. Pull your remaining green blocks to send a final massive wave of green ants to the right side of the lily pad. They will swarm the rest of the leaf and clear it out quickly. Pull your final black block to clean up the last isolated border pieces. Watch the ants clear the very last tiles from the screen. Your waiting slots will remain completely safe and the ants will successfully finish the level.

Final Thought

Colony Flow Level 270 requires a lot of patience early on while you wait for your ants to walk all the way to the top corners of the board. If you manage your tray slots carefully and focus on opening the outer edges first you will easily carve your way into the dense flower center. If you find any of these moves difficult to picture in text I highly recommend watching the video above this article to see exactly how the paths open up.