Ant Flow

Ant Flow seems to be a delightful game focused on colour matching. The aim is to steer ant colonies to coloured blocks and refine the image.

The puzzles get more interesting as you go. Ant boxes can only fit in five slots; therefore, you cannot randomly deploy ants. If all five slots are filled with unusable boxes, ants will stall, possibly failing the level.

How does Ant Flow work?

Each level begins with a colored-block pixel-art image. Each ant box in a waiting area holds a certain number of ants.

You make strategic decisions like which box to use first, which to keep, and when to unlock a new slot, not individual ant control.

Check the board before moving.

• Tapping an ant box after viewing the entire image for a few seconds is a good habit.
• Find colour blocks that need immediate clearing. A successful move may open up new possibilities for later steps rather than clearing the most blocks.

Pick the right colour

• Each ant colony can only collect blocks of its colour. Therefore, colour recognition underpins all games.
• If a colour is covered or inaccessible, adding another box may not help.

Five waiting slots, the crucial key

The five waiting spaces make Ant Flow a logic puzzle from a color-matching game.

Only so many boxes can fit. Filling all five slots with useless boxes will obstruct ant passage. To retain flexibility when the board state changes, the game recommends maintaining at least one slot vacant.

Maintaining ant box order

Knowing which box fits and how to use it is often essential to a successful round.

Once the ants finish their job, a box disappears from the queue, making room for the next.

Think beyond the next step.

Ask yourself before choosing a box:

• Can this box grab a block now?
• Its removal frees up which slot?
• Get a new colour with this move?
• Is there enough queue space for upcoming boxes?

Just a few questions like these change "picking a random colour" to purposeful planning.