Colony Flow Level 455 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 455

Welcome to this puzzle guide for Colony Flow Level 455. This puzzle features a colorful pixel art mask hidden under massive obstacles. You must manage your waiting slots perfectly to avoid a dead end while chipping away at the barriers blocking your paths. This level tests your ability to plan ahead and hold back when your instincts tell you to rush. I play every level myself to ensure you get a real working solution. Follow my strategy to conquer this board.

Colony Flow Level 455 Overview

What You Are Working With

The board begins mostly hidden under two giant chocolate blocks. Chocolate covers and blocks the food tiles underneath until cleared. The top chocolate block is enormous and starts with a massive one hundred twenty count. The right chocolate block is slightly smaller but still imposing with an eighty count. The visible pixel art surrounding these obstacles consists of a large pink background and scattered sections of a tribal mask. The visible colors include light blue, black, yellow, and red. At the bottom of the screen, you have your tray of colored numbered blocks waiting to be used.

You also have five waiting slots directly above the tray. These slots are the most critical part of the screen. You will also encounter Connected Boxes deep in the tray later in this level. These are two or more boxes linked together, cleared as a group. You have to accommodate them carefully to avoid locking up your game.

What It Takes to Clear Level 455 Board

Winning this level requires you to destroy the massive chocolate covers first and foremost. The chocolate completely blocks your ants from reaching the core food tiles of the mask design. You must send various colors of ants to attack the exposed food tiles bordering the chocolate. As the ants clear adjacent tiles or bump into the obstacle, they eat through the chocolate layer and reduce its count.

Once the chocolate disappears completely, you will reveal the full face of the mask underneath. From there, you must strategically pull blocks from your tray to clear the massive pink background and the intricate mask details. You win when every single pixel is cleared from the board and your ants finish their paths. The most important rule to remember is that if your five waiting slots fill up and no ants can move, you lose the level instantly. You must balance the active blocks in your waiting slots at all times so you never block the flow.

Colony Flow Level 455 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Send your first wave of ants to attack the chocolate covers.

You start the level facing those two massive chocolate blocks. You pull a light blue block and a black block into your waiting slots to initiate the attack. The top chocolate piece has a starting count of one hundred twenty, and the right piece has a count of eighty. Because chocolate covers and blocks the food tiles underneath until cleared, you have very few open paths for your ants to travel. The light blue and black ants will march up the board and begin eating the visible tiles adjacent to the chocolate. Every time they interact with the boundary of the chocolate, they reduce its count. You must keep a close eye on your five waiting slots during this opening phase. Do not pull too many blocks at once. Let the light blue and black ants do their work and carve out some functional space on the board.

Step 2: Introduce yellow and red ants to accelerate the breakthrough.

With the light blue and black ants engaged and actively reducing the chocolate numbers, you can now pull the large yellow block and a red block into your slots. The yellow block has a huge count of forty two. This block will sit in your slots for a long time, so you must rely on the red block to deplete quickly and keep a slot open. You also pull a dark red block with a count of two into the tray. This dark red block will stall completely. The dark red tiles are hidden deep inside the eyes of the mask, which remain totally trapped under the chocolate. Do not panic when this dark red block sits completely inactive in your slot. As long as your other four slots have active ants finding their paths, you avoid a fatal jam. The red and yellow ants swarm the outer edges of the chocolate and drastically reduce the remaining numbers.

Step 3: Destroy the right chocolate block to expose the right side of the mask.

Your persistent ant streams finally break through the right chocolate block entirely. The eighty count reaches zero, and the chocolate shatters into nothing. This action reveals a rich cluster of pink, yellow, and black food tiles that were previously inaccessible. This reveal is exactly what you need to keep your waiting slots flowing smoothly. You now pull a large pink block with a count of thirty five into your slots. The pink ants now have a wide open path to the newly revealed right side of the board. They rush in and start clearing the pink background tiles. Because the path is completely clear and unblocked, the pink block counts down rapidly. Your waiting slots remain safe from dead ends because the ants are moving at a very fast pace.

Step 4: Shatter the top chocolate block to reveal the complete pixel art.

The ants now redirect their entire focus to the remaining top chocolate block. The count steadily drops from twenty four down to zero. The top chocolate cover vanishes completely from the board. You now see the full pixel art picture in all its glory. It is a striking tribal mask design made of bright yellow, light blue, black, and red pixels. More importantly, the dark red pixels located inside the eyes of the mask are finally exposed to the open board. The dark red block in your waiting slots that has been stalling your game immediately activates. Two dark red ants march out of the nest hole and eat the eyes of the mask. That stalled block finally leaves your slots, giving you much more breathing room to pull new colors from the bottom tray.

Step 5: Clear the massive pink background surrounding the mask.

Now that the entire mask is fully visible, you notice a massive pink background completely enclosing the central design. You must clear this outer layer to isolate the mask details and finish the level. Pull multiple pink blocks from the tray into your waiting slots. The pink blocks have very large numbers, but the amount of pink on the board is equally massive. The pink ants form long perimeter lines and eat away the outer edges of the screen in a highly satisfying sequence. You can safely stack a couple of pink blocks in your slots because the flow is completely uninterrupted. The mask shape becomes much clearer and more defined as the pink boundary disappears into the nest.

Step 6: Target the black and red borders of the mask design.

With the pink background shrinking rapidly, you need to clear the thick black borders and the red decorative pieces on the mask itself. You pull a large black block and a red block into your empty waiting slots. The black ants target the heavy outline of the mask structure. The red ants focus on the top crest and side decorative sections of the mask. You must time these block pulls correctly. Ensure your yellow block is still actively counting down before you fill your remaining slots with black and red blocks. The board opens up significantly as the dark borders vanish, leaving only the inner core of the mask intact.

Step 7: Manage the connected yellow boxes to clear the center band.

As you reach the later stages of the tray and pull away the single blocks, you finally encounter Connected Boxes. You will see a yellow block linked directly to another yellow block with a solid line. Connected Boxes are two or more boxes linked together, cleared as a group. You must wait patiently until you have enough empty slots to accommodate both of them simultaneously. Once you have the necessary space, you pull the connected yellow blocks up. The yellow ants swarm the large horizontal yellow band across the forehead of the mask. Because the yellow pixels are fully exposed and easy to reach, these connected blocks deplete rapidly and free up your slots without causing a disastrous jam.

Step 8: Clean up the final light blue and black details to win.

The board is now mostly empty and the victory is very close. Only a few scattered light blue, black, and pink pixels remain at the top center of the mask structure. You pull a black block and a light blue block from the tray to handle the main remnants. You also encounter a final set of connected boxes featuring a pink block linked to a light blue block. You pull these linked blocks into your waiting slots. Because they are connected boxes, they clear as a group. The remaining ants rush to the exact locations of the final pixels. The light blue ants clear the final forehead pieces of the mask. The pink ants clear the absolute last bit of background color. The board becomes completely clean, the final block leaves your slots, and your ants disappear down the nest hole to secure your win.

Final Thought

Colony Flow Level 455 demands patience and strategic restraint in the early stages. You must trust your ants to chew through the massive chocolate blocks without overwhelming your waiting slots with too many active colors. Managing that dark red block while it sits inactive is the true test of this puzzle, as it requires you to run the rest of the board on only four slots. Keep your flow steady, prioritize the exposed colors, and always plan for the connected boxes. Watch the video above this article if any step is hard to follow in text.