Colony Flow Level 85 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 85

Colony Flow Level 85 presents a charming pixel art image of a sleepy cat hugging a large object while resting on a comfortable cushion. You face a board packed with heavy colors and a tray that requires careful queue management to succeed. I found this level tests your patience because the background and the cushion demand massive blocks early on in your sequence. You must balance the large background blocks with smaller detail blocks to keep your ants moving and avoid filling your slots with trapped colors.

Colony Flow Level 85 Overview

What You Are Working With

The picture shows a sleeping cat in white and orange with a bold black outline. The cat rests on a large red and dark red cushion at the bottom of the screen. The background consists of a massive light yellow field that covers the upper half of the board. Your tray at the bottom holds several large number blocks for the background and cushion. You will see light yellow, red, dark red, and black blocks right at the top of the queue. Further down the tray you have multiple white blocks for the cat body and several orange and brown blocks for the details. Some blocks sit securely behind bright locks. The game features the Lock and Key mechanic here. You need to clear enough of the colored tiles on the board to collect the hidden keys and free those locked blocks in your tray.

What It Takes to Clear Level 85 Board

Clearing this board requires you to dismantle the outer layers first to expose the delicate inner details. You win the level when the colony eats every single pixel of the cat and its cushion and all blocks hit zero. The key to victory involves feeding the light yellow background and the red cushion to the ants right out of the gate. This strategy keeps your five waiting slots flowing freely. If you pull inner colors like white or pink too early the ants have no way to reach them. The slots will jam immediately and you will fail the level. You must pull colors only when a clear path exists from the nest hole to those specific colored tiles.

Colony Flow Level 85 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Clear the large background and the bottom cushion to open the board.

Your first goal is to clear the massive light yellow background and the red cushion at the bottom of the picture. Tap the large light yellow block and send it to your first waiting slot. Tap the large red block and the dark red block to tackle the cushion. Add the black block to start working on the cat outline. Finally pull an orange block to grab the exposed orange patches on the outer edges. The ants will stream out of the nest hole and immediately attack the light yellow background and the bottom cushion. Because these areas sit directly on the outer edges the ants have completely unobstructed paths to the food. The numbers on these large blocks will count down quickly as the colony swarms the tiles. Watching the massive light yellow section disappear is incredibly satisfying and opens up the entire top half of the board. Keeping the ants busy on these large outer areas ensures your waiting slots do not jam early in the level.

Step 2: Introduce the white blocks to begin clearing the main cat body.

Once the light yellow block empties and vanishes from your waiting queue you will have an open slot. This is your chance to move inward toward the center details. Tap a white block from the tray to begin clearing the main body of the cat. The ants will weave past the partially eaten cushion to reach the white tiles safely. The black outline block will also continue to count down as the ants chip away at the exterior lines defining the cat shape. When the first red block finishes you pull another orange block from the tray. The orange tiles make up the bright spots on the cat and the large object it hugs in its sleep. Moving between white and orange keeps the middle area of the board active and prevents any single color from blocking the flow of the colony. You must watch the paths carefully and only pull a white block when the outer black outline has enough gaps for the ants to pass through without getting stuck.

Step 3: Manage the connected blocks and start the deep shading elements.

As you progress deeper into the tray you will encounter connected boxes. You will see a red block and an orange block linked tightly together by a thick visual bar. Tap this connected pair into your waiting slots. The game forces you to pull them together so you use up two slots at once. The ants will divide their attention between the remaining red cushion pieces and the orange details on the hugged object. Connected blocks take up valuable real estate in your slots so you must make sure both colors have perfectly open paths on the board before you tap them. While the connected blocks count down you tap a brown block from the tray to fill your remaining empty slot. The brown tiles provide the deep shading on the hugged object and the dark corners of the picture. The ants will clear these deeper patches easily now that the outer light yellow and red areas are mostly gone.

Step 4: Collect the keys to unlock the tray blocks for the inner details.

Clearing the outer layers and the middle sections will eventually uncover the hidden keys deep inside the puzzle. These keys automatically fly down from the board to the tray and open the locked blocks. You gain access to the pink block and the peach block that were previously trapped behind locks. Tap the newly freed pink block into an open slot. The ants will rush in to eat the bright pink tiles that form the inner ears and tiny paws of the sleeping cat. Tap the peach block next to clear the soft background shading elements around the edges. At this point the main cat body is highly exposed and ready to be cleared completely. You pull another large white block to feed the hungry ants. The white sections of the cat require a huge amount of food so you need to cycle through several white blocks before the body vanishes entirely. Always leave a clear path for the white ants to reach the center to prevent dead ending the board.

Step 5: Clean up the fine outlines and the isolated shadowed areas.

The final phase of the level focuses on cleaning up the remaining scattered tiles that make up the fine details. You will see a few black tiles left from the intricate outline and some dark red tiles from the deep shadows under the cushion. Tap the remaining black and dark red blocks from your tray to send them to the waiting area. Add the last brown block to finish the intricate shading around the hugging paws. The ants will hunt down these final isolated pieces one by one. You must be very careful not to pull these small blocks too early in the game. If you had pulled a small black block while the large white sections were blocking the path your slots would have jammed permanently. Now that the picture is mostly empty the ants reach any remaining tile without trouble. Let the colony finish the black and brown tiles to open the very last isolated patches of the puzzle.

Step 6: Clear the final white and peach tiles to finish the level.

Your board is nearly empty now and the finish line is right in front of you. You only have a few scattered white tiles and a handful of peach tiles remaining in the exact center of the picture. Tap the final white block and the final peach block into your last open waiting slots. The ants will swarm the last few pixels of the cat body and the remaining background wisps. You do not need to worry about complex pathing anymore because the entire outer area of the board is completely clear. The ants run straight from the nest hole to the center of the board and consume the last bits of colored food. The numbers on your final blocks hit zero and the blocks vanish from the tray. The screen clears completely and you win the level. Managing your limited slot space strictly by working from the outer edges inward is what secures the victory every single time.

Final Thought

Colony Flow Level 85 demands strict attention to layer management. You succeed by breaking down the heavy light yellow background and the red cushion before touching the inner white parts of the cat. If you struggle to visualize the order of the blocks or how the connected blocks fit into the queue I highly recommend watching the video above this article. Seeing the ants clear the paths in real time makes the strategy completely obvious. Keep your slots flowing smoothly and you will conquer this puzzle easily.