How to Clear Magic Sort! Levels 339 and 340

To solve Magic Sort! Levels 339 and 340, keep at least one bottle completely empty as a staging area while stripping top liquids to free trapped bottom colors. These mid-game stages limit your storage space while stacking up to four distinct liquid layers in single bottles, making random transfers easy to block.

Staging with Empty Containers

Empty bottles serve as temporary space for maneuverability rather than final storage. Spending every open slot on partial color sets locks the board early.

• Maintain an Empty Buffer: Keep one or two containers completely clear to execute temporary transfers.
• Avoid Partial Spills: Do not transfer a top liquid into an empty bottle unless it unblocks a stack or creates an immediate path to consolidate another color.
• Use Triangulation: Move top layers out of the way into a free space, group matching middle colors into their designated bottle, then clear the initial staging container.

Clearing Bottleneck Stacks

The primary obstacle in Levels 339 and 340 is the bottleneck color—the liquid layer resting at the very bottom of a multi-colored column.

1. Identify which bottom-layer liquid is blocking matching transfers across the board.
2. Remove the top and middle layers blocking that base color, moving them into matching stacks or open staging containers.
3. Consolidate the base color into its dedicated container to clear a bottle completely and create a permanent free slot.

Validating Moves and Avoiding Traps

Pouring liquid onto a mismatched color seals the lower layer and restricts board movement. Before making any move, check that the destination container meets one of two criteria:

Prioritize moves that maximize empty space over completing single-color bottles prematurely. Leaving a stack partially sorted is preferable if it preserves the free bottle space required for deeper sequence maneuvers.