Magic Sort! Level 890 Walkthrough and Clearing Strategy

To clear Level 890 in Magic Sort!, you must consolidate exposed matching colors while keeping at least one empty buffer bottle open at all times. Standard bottles hold four liquid segments, and liquid can only be poured onto an identical color or into an empty bottle. Filling both starting empty bottles with mismatched colors will freeze your board, so you must cycle transfers to keep buffer space accessible until each color is completed.

Starting Board Overview and Priorities

Level 890 starts with mixed four-segment bottles and two empty transfer bottles. Multiple colors sit fragmented across the board, with primary and secondary hues buried beneath single-segment caps.

Board Component	Transfer Strategy	Failure Risk
Exposed Matching Caps	Merge across existing partially filled tubes	Depositing single units into empty buffers
Two Open Buffer Bottles	Keep one vacant while using the other for moves	Stalling movement by filling both buffers
Buried Base Segments	Uncover by transferring top layers onto matches	Trapping matching colors beneath two-layer blocks
Four-Unit Stacks	Complete fully to remove the tube from play	Overfilling target tubes with incomplete colors

Managing Empty Buffer Bottles

The two open bottles provided at the start represent your entire margin for maneuvering. Avoid placing single, unmatchable segments into both open bottles during the early moves.

Designate one working buffer. Use the first empty bottle to temporarily hold blocking segments that conceal high-priority colors.
Protect the reserve buffer. Leave the second empty bottle untouched until a sequence allows you to clear a third bottle completely.
Establish a continuous buffer loop. Never transfer liquid into an empty tube unless that move directly empties another bottle or finishes a four-unit stack.
Reassign empty slots. As soon as any bottle is fully cleared, it becomes your new active working buffer.

Layer Extraction and Mid-Game Routing

After clearing the initial exposed pairs, identify bottles with minimal color variety. The easiest breakthrough occurs when a bottle contains three units of a single color sitting beneath a foreign single-unit cap.

Pour that single cap into your active working buffer to expose the three matching units beneath it. Locate the fourth matching segment elsewhere on the board and combine them to create a completed four-segment bottle. Completing a color locks that bottle out of play, which permanently reduces board congestion.

Continue targeting the color that appears most frequently across exposed layers. Consolidate those pieces onto existing stacks rather than spreading them across multiple tubes.

Avoiding Board Deadlocks

A deadlock occurs when identical colors are scattered across partial bottles with no remaining empty tubes to reorganize them. Because you can only pour matching liquid onto matching liquid or into a completely vacant tube, leaving three tubes each containing three different colors will freeze your board.

Before initiating a transfer, confirm that the receiving tube has adequate capacity. If a tube has two units of a color and two empty slots, moving two matching units into it cleanly completes the bottle. Moving only one unit into that space leaves an awkward single slot that risks trapping your sequence. If an upcoming sequence leaves your final empty buffer occupied by two different colors, cancel the move and route secondary colors elsewhere first.

Endgame Tube Consolidation

Once three or four colors are completely assembled, board space increases substantially. You will typically have two or more fully cleared bottles to work with.

Use one vacant bottle to hold odd segments while shifting base layers into their permanent four-segment tubes. Build each remaining color to its four-unit maximum one at a time. Once the final two mixed tubes are separated and consolidated, the level completes.