Colony Flow Level 552 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 552

Colony Flow Level 552 drops you into a massive aquatic scene featuring a bright orange clownfish swimming in a pool of blue water. You will immediately notice two giant brown chocolate blocks sitting heavily in the bottom left corner. Your job is to guide your ants to eat the picture without letting your five tray slots fill up completely. I played through this level and found the exact right sequence to keep the board moving smoothly. The key to winning is managing the massive block numbers while slowly chipping away at the chocolate barriers.

Colony Flow Level 552 Overview

What You Are Working With

The board is dominated by a large orange and white clownfish with black stripes. The background is a solid field of cyan blue water speckled with small white and yellow flowers. These little flowers also have tiny green stems. At the bottom left corner sit two huge chocolate blocks. Each piece of chocolate has a giant 400 stamped on it. You will see regular single color blocks and connected boxes in your tray at the bottom of the screen. Connected boxes are linked together and move into your slots as a single unit. You must clear the chocolate to reach the food tiles trapped underneath it.

What It Takes to Clear Level 552 Board

You must unleash a steady stream of cyan and orange ants right from the very start. The massive chocolate blocks take a lot of time and effort to break down. Every time your ants clear adjacent food tiles the chocolate numbers drop. You need to pull blocks carefully to avoid filling your five waiting slots while those high chocolate numbers slowly tick down. Once the chocolate is completely gone you can finally access the remaining left side of the clownfish. You win by keeping the right side of the board active and open while the left side slowly dissolves.

Colony Flow Level 552 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Start with cyan and orange blocks to open the lower water area

You begin the level with a tray full of cyan and orange blocks holding large numbers like 45 and 50. Pull the first cyan block and the first orange block up into your five waiting slots. The cyan ants stream out of the nest hole and immediately begin eating the bottom edge of the blue water. The orange ants rush upward toward the bottom belly of the clownfish. As the ants clear these lower tiles they also begin to hit the huge chocolate blocks. The chocolate counter starts at 400 but will start dropping as the ants do their adjacent clearing work. Always leave at least one or two slots empty so you can bring up a new color if the current path temporarily jams. Pulling large numbers means the ants will flow for a long time and tie up those slots.

Step 2: Feed the orange blocks to clear the lower fish body

With the bottom edge opening up you will see the chocolate numbers fall into the two hundreds. Keep pulling new orange blocks into the waiting slots as the previous ones empty out. The orange ants will carve out the entire lower half of the clownfish. You also need to pull another cyan block to keep the blue water receding on the right side of the board. The right side of the play area is completely open and totally free of any chocolate obstacles. Pushing cyan ants up the right wall ensures you never hit a dead end. Managing this open right side gives you a perfectly safe place to dump large cyan numbers while the heavily blocked left side slowly clears out.

Step 3: Manage the connected orange and green block

Your tray will soon reveal a connected box joining an orange block and a green block. Connected boxes take up space in your slots until both colors are completely used by the ants. You should only pull this connected pair into your slots when you see a totally clear path to the green flower stems. The orange ants will easily continue eating the fish body while the green ants march up to the tiny green bits on the flowers. Bringing this connected block out too early is a huge mistake because the green half will sit trapped in your slots. Wait until the cyan ants have eaten enough blue water to fully expose the green tiles before you commit to this move.

Step 4: Break the chocolate down to double digits

Keep focusing your cyan ants on the left side of the blue water pool. The constant clearing activity from the ants drops the chocolate numbers down to 85. The massive brown obstacle is finally close to breaking. Pull another orange block to feed the ants working on the top half of the clownfish head. You will notice a black block waiting in the tray below. Leave the black block alone for a moment. The black stripes on the fish are not fully exposed and accessible just yet. You must completely break the chocolate to open the correct paths to the black tiles. Sending black ants out now would simply waste a slot.

Step 5: Destroy the chocolate completely and deploy the black block

Bring up one more cyan block to clear the remaining water touching the chocolate. The two chocolate blocks will finally shatter and disappear from the board entirely. This action reveals the normal food tiles hidden underneath and perfectly frees up the entire left side of the board. Now you can safely pull the black block into your waiting slots. Black ants will surge out of the nest and consume the vertical black stripes on the clownfish. With the left side completely open your ants can freely navigate the entire board without any frustrating bottlenecks.

Step 6: Play the connected yellow and cyan block

As the black ants finish eating the stripes a new connected box appears in your tray. This one links a yellow block to a cyan block. The yellow ants are required for the centers of the small flowers scattered around the top half of the water. Pull this connected box up into your active area. The cyan ants will continue eating the large remaining pool of water while the yellow ants specifically target the flower centers. You still have plenty of open space across the board so your slots are in absolutely no danger of filling up. The clownfish body is now almost entirely gone leaving only a few orange tiles behind.

Step 7: Finish the clownfish and target the upper water

Pull the final small orange blocks to clear the last few pieces of the fish tail and face. Once all the orange tiles are completely gone your only remaining targets are the blue water and the white flower petals. Bring up a large cyan block to send a massive swarm of ants toward the top of the board. The ants will spread out along the upper boundary and eat the blue background moving from left to right. Make sure you keep pulling cyan blocks as they appear in the tray to maintain your clearing momentum.

Step 8: Clear the white flower petals to win the level

The board is now mostly empty sand. Only a thin scattered layer of cyan water and a few white flower petals remain at the very top edge. Pull the white block into your active slots. The white ants will run all the way up the empty board to eat the petals. Follow this move with your final cyan blocks. The ants will easily consume the last remaining blue tiles along the top boundary. The picture completely disappears and the level ends in victory.

Final Thought

Level 552 tests your patience heavily with those massive chocolate blocks. Taking your time to chip away at the chocolate while keeping the right side open is the absolute safest path to victory. If you find yourself getting stuck or filling your waiting slots too quickly I highly recommend watching the video above this article. Seeing the exact timing in action will clear up any confusion.