Magic Sort! Level 59 Guide: Color Routing and Buffer Strategy

To beat Level 59 in Magic Sort!, merge matching top-layer colors immediately and preserve at least one completely empty tube as a cycling buffer. The level starts with five four-unit tubes containing mixed liquid segments and two empty tubes. You risk an immediate deadlock if you fill both empty tubes with mismatched colors before uncovering full sets.

Assign Clear Roles to the Two Empty Tubes

The board grants two empty utility tubes at the start of Level 59. Splitting random single units across both tubes consumes your movement freedom and stalls the board. Instead, assign a dedicated role to each empty slot:

• The Anchor Tube: Choose one empty tube to build a single target color. Pour matching segments into this tube only when committing to completing that four-unit color set.
• The Transit Tube: Keep the second empty bottle completely clear whenever possible. Use it only for temporary, single-move holding to uncover a matching layer underneath, then immediately route that liquid out so the tube empties again.

Maintaining an open transit tube ensures you always have a legal move to access buried colors.

Color Pour Priority on Level 59

Liquid can only be poured into a bottle if that bottle has open capacity and the top layer matches the incoming color, or if the receiving bottle is entirely empty. To prevent deadlocks, prioritize your pours based on board impact rather than random shifts:

Prioritizing top-layer merges uncovers deeper segments naturally, creating room to move larger liquid stacks without clogging your buffers.

Manage Block Movement and Prevent Stalls

Each color in the puzzle consists of four total units. As you consolidate matching segments, manage your moves around multi-unit blocks:

1. Check capacity before pouring blocks: Moving a two- or three-unit block requires equal open space in the destination tube. If the target bottle has only one open slot, the game will not allow an oversized block transfer.
2. Target severe bottlenecks early: Identify columns that contain three alternating colors beneath the surface. Unstacking these bottleneck tubes quickly is critical to generating replacement empty bottles.
3. Avoid splitting unified stacks: If you consolidate two units of a color, avoid burying them beneath a different color, which traps the entire set until the top is cleared again.

Deadlock Recovery

If every tube mouth displays a different color and neither empty tube remains open, the puzzle is deadlocked.

When your options narrow:

• Use Undo immediately: If a sequence leaves both buffer bottles filled with different, incomplete colors, tap the undo arrow two or three times to restore your open transit tube.
• Restart on early buffer loss: If both utility tubes become occupied within your first five moves without completely clearing out a replacement tube, restart Level 59. Rerouting from the initial board state with a designated transit buffer is faster than working out of an early stall.