Colony Flow Level 864 Walkthrough Solution & Guides | How to solve Colony Flow 864

Welcome back to another puzzle guide. Today you tackle Colony Flow Level 864. This board presents a colorful pixel art design featuring a giant purple cat head surrounded by a bright cyan background. The picture also includes bright red details and hidden food blocks that require careful timing to unlock. You must manage a tray full of connected boxes and keep your ants moving smoothly to win.

Colony Flow Level 864 Overview

What You Are Working With

The picture at the top of your screen shows a large purple and pink cat face. A solid cyan background wraps entirely around the cat. Inside the cat face you find white teeth, white eyes, and a bright red tongue. On the right side of the board a red starburst shape looks like a small firework. On the upper left side you see three red question marks. These question marks act as hidden food tiles. They remain completely inactive until you clear the tiles touching them.

Your tray at the bottom holds a large mix of numbered blocks. You will see light blue blocks for the cyan background, purple blocks for the main cat face, pink blocks for the ears, white blocks for the face details, and red blocks for the tongue and fireworks. Several of these blocks are connected boxes. Connected boxes link two numbers together. You pull one block from the tray and you automatically drag the attached block into your waiting slots. Your nest hole sits directly below the picture. The ants pour out of this hole and walk up to the lowest exposed tiles. You have five empty waiting slots above the tray.

What It Takes to Clear Level 864 Board

You clear this board by eating the picture from the bottom to the top. You must open paths through the cyan border to reach the purple cat. Then you eat through the cat to reach the top background and the hidden red food. Your primary goal is to never fill all five waiting slots with blocks that cannot find an open path. If you pull a block and the ants cannot reach its matching color on the board the block sits trapped in a waiting slot. If all five slots fill up and no ants can move you lose the level immediately. You avoid this failure by pulling colors only when their matching tiles are completely exposed and accessible.

Colony Flow Level 864 Step by Step Solution

Step 1: Open the bottom cyan boundary to expose the lower cat face.

Your first move targets the bottom edge of the picture. A solid row of cyan tiles blocks access to the rest of the board. You pull the initial light blue blocks from your tray to send cyan ants upward. The ants stream out of the nest hole and eat away the bottom border. You watch the numbers on your light blue blocks count down as each ant grabs a single tile. As the bottom cyan tiles vanish the purple tiles making up the bottom of the cat face become exposed. This opens your first path into the center of the board. You must keep pulling light blue blocks until the bottom edge is completely gone. Doing this ensures you do not accidentally trap a block in your waiting slots with no open path to follow.

Step 2: Send purple ants to clear the lower half of the cat.

With the bottom boundary gone you now have a direct path to the purple cat face. You pull a large purple block from the tray to spawn a massive wave of purple ants. These ants march straight up from the hole and begin eating the cat chin and lower cheeks. The purple cat is the largest single color object on the board. You will watch the numbers on the purple block count down rapidly as the ants consume the tiles. This step hollows out the bottom of the picture and creates a wider open space in the middle of the board. A wider space means your ants have less distance to travel and can reach their targets faster. You keep the center path clear so future colors do not get stuck behind a wall of purple tiles.

Step 3: Deploy cyan ants to climb the outer left and right borders.

The cyan background still covers the entire left and right flanks of the board. You need to remove these sides to expose the upper ears and the top background. You pull another light blue block from the tray. The cyan ants split into two distinct streams. One stream wraps around the left side of the cat while the other stream wraps around the right side. They climb up the edges and eat the cyan tiles along the outer boundary. This flanking maneuver reveals the hidden food on the top left. You must let these cyan ants work their way up the sides before you pull any upper colors. If you pull colors for the top of the head too early they will sit dead in your slots.

Step 4: Clear the white teeth and eyes using connected boxes.

As the purple ants hollow out the face they expose the white teeth and the white eyes. You now face your first major connected box challenge. You pull a white seven block from the tray which automatically pulls its connected white fifty block into the waiting slots. The white ants rush in to eat the teeth and the eyes. Because the connected block takes up two waiting slots you must ensure the white tiles are fully accessible before making this move. The white ants will finish the teeth and move directly to the eyes. You watch the numbers drain away until the white blocks disappear from your slots and free up valuable space. This careful timing prevents the board from dead ending.

Step 5: Clear the pink inner ears and upper cat head.

The flanking cyan ants and the central purple ants have now exposed the pink ears at the top of the cat head. You pull the pink blocks and the remaining purple blocks to send a mixed wave of ants upward. The pink ants target the triangular ear shapes while the purple ants finish off the forehead. You see the ants snake around the empty spaces left behind by the eyes and teeth. This step clears the entire center of the board. Only the bright red elements and the top cyan border remain. Keeping your waiting slots mostly empty during this step gives you maximum flexibility for the final push. You always verify the pink tiles are open before pulling the pink numbers.

Step 6: Unlock the hidden red food question marks.

The three red question marks sit in the upper left corner of the board. These are hidden food tiles. They stay completely grayed out and inactive until your ants eat the tiles directly touching them. The cyan ants marching up the left side finally eat the cyan tiles surrounding the question marks. The moment the adjacent tiles vanish the question marks turn bright red and become active targets. You can now safely pull red blocks from your tray without fear of jamming your waiting slots. Waiting for the cyan ants to do their job is the only way to avoid a fatal logjam in your tray.

Step 7: Clear the red fireworks tongue and hidden food.

The board now features three distinct red zones. You have the tongue inside the mouth area the starburst fireworks on the right and the newly unlocked question marks on the left. You pull the connected red blocks from your tray. The red ants pour out of the nest hole and split into three groups to attack all three areas at once. They consume the tongue first since it sits closest to the nest hole. Then they swarm the upper left and upper right to finish the fireworks and the question marks. The red numbers hit zero and the blocks vanish from your tray. The board is now almost entirely clean.

Step 8: Finish the remaining top cyan border.

Only a single row of cyan tiles remains across the very top edge of the board. You pull your final light blue blocks into the waiting slots. The last wave of cyan ants marches all the way up the empty board to reach the top. They fan out across the final row and eat the remaining tiles. You watch the final light blue number hit zero. The picture completely disappears and the level ends in a win. You successfully managed your connected boxes and kept your paths open from start to finish.

Final Thought

Level 864 demands your attention to connected boxes and a steady clearing of the outer borders. You keep your slots open by always verifying a clear path before you pull a new color. Watch the video above this article if you find any step hard to follow in text. The visual guide will help you nail the exact timing for the hidden food tiles.