Colony Flow Level 586 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 586

Welcome to Colony Flow Level 586. You face a large pixel art picture of a man walking across the screen. The background is massive and requires constant attention so you do not run out of room in your tray. I will guide you through exactly how to clear this puzzle without filling your waiting slots and losing the level.

Colony Flow Level 586 Overview

What You Are Working With

The picture displays a man in mid stride. He wears a dark blue shirt, red pants, and dark blue shoes. His face and hands use a skin tone color. He has dark blue hair and white details for his eyes and teeth. The entire picture is surrounded by a massive light blue background that takes up the most space on the board. You will pull blocks matching these exact colors from the tray at the bottom of the screen.

The tray contains a few special elements you must manage. You will find connected boxes during this puzzle. These are two blocks joined together by a line. When you tap one of them to move it into your waiting slots, the attached block comes with it automatically. You also have hidden boxes at the bottom of the tray. These boxes show a question mark and hide their true color until you clear the blocks resting on top of them.

What It Takes to Clear Level 586 Board

You win the level when the ants completely eat every pixel of the picture and the board is blank. The ants emerge from a hole at the bottom and follow open paths to reach the colored food tiles. Your main threat is clogging your five waiting slots. You must always ensure the ants have a clear path to the color you pull from the tray. If you pull a block and the ants cannot reach that color on the board, that block sits in your tray and wastes a slot. If you fill all five slots with blocked colors, the ants stop moving and you fail the level. You must balance clearing the outer edges with feeding the inner details to keep the paths open.

Colony Flow Level 586 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Open the board by targeting the massive background and the pants

Start by pulling the first light blue blocks to feed the ants on the outer edges. The light blue background touches the outer perimeter of the board, which gives the ants immediate access to it. You will also see a red block connected to a light blue block in your tray. Pull this connected pair into your waiting slots. The red pants are located at the bottom of the character and are completely exposed to the ants. The ants will stream out of the hole, split up, and begin eating both the red pants and the light blue background at the same time. This keeps your waiting slots emptying out steadily.

Step 2: Feed the ants dark blue blocks to clear the shoes and shirt

As the ants finish the red pants, they expose the dark blue shoes and the bottom edge of the dark blue shirt. Pull the dark blue blocks from the tray into your open slots. The ants will march up through the empty space left by the pants and swarm the shoes. Make sure you keep at least one light blue block in your slots as well. The light blue background is so large that you must continuously feed it to prevent the ants from stalling. By clearing the shirt and the background simultaneously, you create multiple avenues for the ants to travel.

Step 3: Bring in the skin tone blocks to expose the arms and face

You need to clear the shirt completely to open a path to the inner edges of the arms and face. Once the dark blue shirt tiles disappear, tap the skin tone blocks in your tray. The ants will travel up the center of the board and begin eating the hands and the lower jaw of the man. Watch your five waiting slots closely here. Do not pull the skin tone blocks until you clearly see empty space next to the hands. If you pull them too early, they will sit in your tray and trap your other blocks.

Step 4: Manage the connected light blue blocks to maintain background progress

You will find more connected light blue blocks deep in the tray. Pulling these takes up multiple slots at once. You must verify that your other slots are empty enough to handle a sudden influx of blocks. Because the background is so vast, pulling two light blue blocks at the same time is highly effective. The ants will quickly drain the numbers on these blocks as they chew through the sky around the man. Keep the ants moving up the left and right sides of the screen to thin out the top corners of the background.

Step 5: Target the white sections to clear the eyes and teeth

As the ants eat away the skin tone face, they will expose the white pixels that make up the eyes and teeth. Look for the white blocks in your tray and pull them up. You must wait until the ants have a direct path to the face before doing this. The white sections are small and buried deep inside the picture. Pulling a white block too early will instantly dead end your board. Wait until the skin tone tiles drop away, then bring the white block up so the ants can rush in and clear those fine details.

Step 6: Reveal the hidden boxes to plan your final moves

The tray has hidden boxes near the very bottom row. You must use the blocks on top of them to see what colors they hold. Pull the remaining light blue and skin tone blocks above them to uncover the hidden items. You will usually find the exact colors you need to finish the final details of the character. Uncovering these hidden boxes early gives you time to plan your last few pulls without guessing. Always keep one slot open just in case a hidden box reveals a color that is not quite ready to be eaten.

Step 7: Clear the remaining dark blue hair and final skin tone pixels

The top of the head features dark blue hair and a few final skin tone pixels for the nose. Pull the remaining dark blue blocks from the bottom of the tray. The ants will travel all the way up the center path you carved out earlier and eat the hair. At this stage, the picture is mostly gone, and the ants have a very short travel distance. The numbers on your blocks will count down rapidly.

Step 8: Empty the board of all remaining light blue background colors

Only a few scattered pieces of the light blue background and white details will remain at the top of the screen. Pull the final light blue blocks to finish the sky. Watch the ants rush to the top corners and eat the last few tiles. Let the waiting slots empty out completely. Once the final pixel disappears, the ants will retreat and you will secure your victory for this stage.

Final Thought

Keeping your waiting slots clear is the only way to beat this puzzle. You must constantly balance the large background sections with the smaller detail sections to give the ants multiple targets. If any text direction is hard to visualize, I encourage you to watch the video above this article to see exactly how the ants move across the open paths.