Car Sort: Color Puzzle Level 317 Solution Walkthrough

Flatten the four center shelves

Begin with green from the upper-left shelf. Clear the full group, then take red from the right-facing shelf. Pale cyan follows across the lower middle. These three batches create the first empty horizontal channel through the center.

Use:

green center → red center → pale cyan → blue support → purple tower → orange tower → yellow → pink lower reserve → final green/red

Blue is the short bridge between the center and the upper road. Finish it before opening purple. Purple then drains from the left tower, followed by orange from the middle tower. Each tower should own the entire top edge during its phase.

Yellow appears from the newly opened upper or lower garage and uses the right side of the square. Pink follows from the bottom after yellow has parked. Green and red reappear as final full columns once the shutter garage has opened.

Use the shutter only as a late supply

The upper-right shutter is not extra road space. It releases another tower only when the center shelves and earlier tower counts are complete. If it stays closed, finish the active color inside the square.

If traffic jams at the top, complete purple, orange, yellow, or the visible shutter color. If it jams below, finish cyan, blue, or pink. When the center remains layered, return to the highest exposed shelf instead of tapping another tower face.

Level 317 opens from its middle: green, red, cyan, and blue flatten the shelves, purple and orange empty the upper towers, and yellow, pink, green, and red finish after the corner shutter releases.

Read the four horizontal shelves

The center is arranged as four short rows pointing toward the right edge. Green and red occupy the upper bands, while blue, cyan, and darker covered cells sit below. Each shelf has just enough frontage for one complete color. If two shelves feed at once, their cars meet at the lower-right corner and neither group gains room.

Clear the exposed green row first. Its empty bay opens the upper half of the center. Red follows from the facing row, then pale cyan from the lower middle. Wait for each group to disappear from all four sides of the square before changing color.

Blue acts as the bridge between the shelves and the outside towers. It should move after cyan, when the center has a continuous dark channel. A blue marker still visible on the right edge is a signal to keep the upper towers closed.

Give the top towers complete laps

Purple is the first tall upper column to become fully usable. Drain it without interruption. Orange follows from the neighboring tower only after purple has left both top corners. Yellow then appears as another long upper face and needs the same road space.

The towers grow into clean purple, orange, yellow, green, and blue columns as their covers disappear. Treat every newly exposed color as a separate batch, even if the same color was used in the center. The upper purple tower is not an extension of a small middle purple face, and a late green column has a different counter from the opening green shelf.

At the first major checkpoint, the center should show broad cyan or green bands with dark rows around them, while the three top towers stand as uniform colors. Do not chase every fresh tower immediately. Finish the complete center row touching the right exit, reset the perimeter, and then drain one upper column.

Time the shutter release

The pale shutter bay at the upper-right contains a ticket marker and does not function as road space. It opens only after the earlier shelf and tower counts are satisfied. Tapping nearby colors cannot force it. If it remains closed, look for a complete row still visible inside the square.

Once the shutter releases, its color gets the top and right edges to itself. Clear the whole face before returning to the bottom reserves. This release often reveals cyan, blue, yellow, or another cool-color column in the neighboring tower.

The safest visual check is the upper-right corner. It should be empty when the shutter changes state. If a road marker is still crossing that bend, wait even though the new face is visible.

Bottom reserves and the returning rows

Pink is the first important lower reserve. Drain its full column through the bottom edge. A red or green reserve may become exposed beside it, but it should wait until pink has parked.

Pale violet and red later form tall lower columns. Choose the complete column connected to the emptier bottom corner. Finish it, then use the opposite side. The lower route has less recovery space than the top, so alternating columns is especially risky.

Inside the center, green and red return as longer rows. Clear the row nearest the right exit first. Green often creates a dark middle band that allows the final red group to enter without meeting the last lower marker.

The replay's late board shows a clean cyan row across the center, green arranged below it, and solid purple, orange, yellow, or blue columns above. At that point the puzzle has stopped being a mixed shelf problem. Complete one full row, then one full tower, using an empty square as the checkpoint between them.

Recovery by corner

A blockage along the top edge belongs to purple, orange, yellow, green, blue, or the shutter garage. Finish the active upper source. A jam at the lower-left or lower-right corner belongs to cyan, pink, violet, red, or the current bottom reserve.

If the center remains layered, return to the highest complete shelf. Clearing a lower partial row cannot open the locked cells above it. If a tower counter does not change, find the final car from the same tower; it may be traveling behind the center block and temporarily hidden.

When two colors share the road, stop tapping. Complete the group whose source has fewer visible cars remaining, wait for it to park, and then clear the second source. Do not add yellow or green as a rescue group simply because its garage is open.

Before the final column, verify that the four center rows are dark, the shutter bay is open, and no road marker is rounding the lower edge. Release the last red, green, or blue face as one continuous batch. Level 317 becomes reliable when the center shelves are flattened first, the towers receive complete laps, and the shutter is treated as a late checkpoint rather than an early shortcut.