Ants Clear All : Color Block Puzzle

In Ants Clear All : Color Block Puzzle the board is a pixel-art picture made of coloured blocks, and your workforce is a supply of ants. Each box in the front row holds an ant team of one colour. Send a team out and the ants go and fetch every block of their colour they can reach, carrying it away by themselves.

The limit is space. Only a few deployment slots exist, so you cannot release every team at once, and a team waiting for blocks it cannot get to is taking up a slot. Clearing the blocks on the outside opens routes to colours further in, which in turn frees teams and slots. A board is won when the final block has gone. It is a single-player game, built for a portrait screen, with mouse, keyboard and touch all supported.

Pick a box in the front row by clicking or tapping it, or press a number key from 1 to 5 to choose its column. Its ant team goes out and collects the matching blocks it can reach. Keep sending teams in a sensible order until the whole picture is cleared. If the slots jam and you are stuck, retry the board. Escape pauses or goes back.

Ants only take blocks they can reach, so start with colours that sit on the outer edge of the picture. A team whose colour is buried will sit in a slot doing little. Work out which colour blocks the next layer, send that team first, and keep one slot free when you can.

A colour-matching clearing puzzle with pixel-art boards. Portrait frame (540 by 960). The developer lists mouse, keyboard (1 to 5 and Escape) and touch controls. Single player. Deployment slots are limited, and a stuck board can be retried.

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