Magic Sort! Level 827 Walkthrough: Color Routing and Clearing Strategy

To beat Level 827 in Magic Sort!, pour matching exposed surface colors into one another immediately and use your empty starting tubes strictly as temporary transfer buffers. Completely stripping all four color segments from a single mixed bottle is your top early milestone, as it grants a permanent, reusable sorting lane that prevents board deadlocks.

Opening Transfers: Uncovering Buried Layers

Level 827 features four-segment mixed bottles alongside limited empty buffer tubes. The primary challenge is layer dependency: essential base colors remain trapped beneath two or three foreign color layers across adjacent tubes.

Execute your opening moves with this priority order:

Scan the top segments: Identify identical colors sitting on the surfaces of partially filled tubes.
Combine surface matches: Pour matching top colors together across mixed bottles whenever space allows. This exposes the deeper layers beneath without using up an empty buffer slot.
Check the uncovered segment: If the revealed layer immediately matches another exposed surface color, transfer it next to sustain momentum.
Reserve buffer tubes for high-count colors: If you must use an empty tube to uncover a buried segment, only deposit a color that has at least two accessible units elsewhere on the board. Avoid placing an isolated single unit with no available matches into an empty tube.

Mid-Game Sorting and Transfer Priorities

After emptying your first full bottle, focus on consolidating fragmented colors rather than spreading segments across multiple tubes. Splitting a single color across several bottles in one- or two-unit stacks exhausts your board capacity and restricts legal transfers.

Use the following transfer priorities to guide each move:

Transfer Type	Board Condition	Purpose	Priority
Surface-to-Surface Match	Identical top colors on two mixed tubes	Reveals underlying layers without consuming buffer capacity	High
Clear-Out Transfer	Pouring the last remaining color out of a mixed bottle	Opens a fully empty bottle to maintain board flexibility	Very High
Buffer Parking	Moving an obstructing top color into an empty tube	Digs out a crucial matching layer sitting directly below	Situational
Split-Color Stacking	Pouring two different colors into an empty buffer tube	Stores mismatched segments in a clean lane	Avoid

Always favor chain reactions. If revealing a secondary color enables you to drain an entire stack from another mixed bottle, execute that sequence immediately to keep at least one tube completely empty.

Preventing Deadlocks

A deadlock occurs when every tube surface shows a different color and your buffer tubes contain mixed, non-matching liquids.

To avoid running out of moves:

Apply two-move projection: Never transfer a segment into an empty tube unless you have already confirmed the next move that transfer unlocks.
Delay unlinked parking: If moving a color into a buffer does not immediately clear a layer or create a direct match, leave it in place and search for an alternate top-layer transfer.
Consolidate partial stacks: When space runs low, merge small matching stacks together to free up capacity across your active bottles.

Executing the Final Clear

The end phase begins once three or four colors are fully assembled into completed four-unit bottles. Completed tubes lock out of the active puzzle, reducing your board size while removing color complexity.

To close out the level:

Designate one recipient bottle for each remaining unfinished color.
Pour the outermost layers off the final mixed bottles directly into their matching target tubes.
Transfer the final separated color segments into their respective bottles to complete Level 827.