Food Hunt Level 401 Walkthrough

Published: 2026-11-13

Beat Food Hunt level 401 by opening with yellow 15, red 53, red 46 and dark 81, then maintaining a red lane through the finish. The picture is an angry red-and-yellow mushroom-shaped explosion cloud with eyes, a snarling mouth and the number 115 hidden over it. You clear 41 boxes in six colors, ending on a red pixel along the cloud's lower outline.

The middle stretch has several long pauses: white 4, grey 22, yellow 29 and grey 16 can all wait for covered pixels. Yellow is scattered throughout the cloud, so one yellow box may finish quickly while another stops for a long stretch. The colors are red, yellow, dark grey, grey, light red and white. Keep red working while the smaller waiting boxes regain access.

Explosion Cloud Answer Key by Box Number

Yellow 15, red 53, red 46, dark 81; then alternate yellow, grey, red and dark boxes. Finish with the smaller red and yellow boxes while keeping red ready for the lower outline.

The numbers distinguish boxes of the same color, especially through the changing yellow runs. Begin with the four listed opening boxes in the four starting slots. After that, use the numbered steps to track the refills rather than expecting every yellow box to finish at the same pace. Yellow 15 has accessible food and empties first, but yellow 29 encounters buried patches. The final target is a red outline pixel, so the ending depends on maintaining red even when the remaining picture looks sparse.

Six-Stage Solution for the Angry Cloud

1. Start all four working lanes. Put yellow 15, red 53, red 46 and dark 81 into the four slots at the opening. These are the starting queue's large working boxes, with red and dark covering the biggest connected areas. The ants can then attack the outside outline and substantial interior sections together. Dark 81 progresses quickly toward the middle of its count while the other opening colors eat in parallel.

Video walkthrough of level 401

Watch the 41-box clear to see yellow 15 finish first and the white, grey and yellow plateau develop later. The ending follows the remaining cells down to the red pixel on the lower contour.

2. Use yellow's first opening. Yellow 15 reaches zero before the other opening boxes because its matching pixels are scattered in accessible places. Put grey 10 into that newly available slot, then continue with red 38 and grey 22 as the queue advances. Dark 27 replenishes the dark parts of the outline. Do not assume that this fast first yellow clear means later yellow refills will find equally open routes through the cloud.
3. Add the white accents. When a red slot empties, send white 4 into that space for the cloud's small white highlights. Those scattered accents need their own matching ants even though the larger areas are already shrinking. Use an available slot for dark 62 as an additional dark lane rather than discarding a waiting box. This lets dark continue in two streams while white remains ready for its small, partly sheltered targets.
4. Work across the plateau. White 4, grey 16 and other boxes pause here while neighboring colors still cover their food. Keep those boxes in place and use openings for yellow 29, yellow 66, yellow 20, grey 22 and yellow 9 as they become available. The red and dark lanes continue eating through this part of the run. The stalled boxes restart when access opens, so this plateau does not call for removing them or replacing the whole approach.
5. Shift toward grey and white. As the large yellow sections disappear, more routes open for the grey and white ants. Give those colors the newly exposed work while yellow 28 and yellow 10 clear the last substantial yellow area. Add dark 79 to continue the outline lane. By this point the solid cloud has become a thin collection of separate cells, and the useful color can change as each neighboring patch disappears.
6. Sweep the lower outline. Finish the scattered red, yellow and dark cells around the bottom contour with the remaining refills. The late sequence includes red 10, red 8, yellow 27, yellow 10, dark 27, red 6, red 5, red 36, red 2, red 1, red 56, dark 29, yellow 35, yellow 18, red 4 and yellow 3. Keep the red lane supplied through that sequence instead of letting the small waits occupy every useful place. The final falling pixel is red on the lower edge of the explosion cloud.

Keeping Red Alive Across the Midlevel Plateau

Check the red lane first when the middle of this cloud seems to stop. The last target is red, and allowing every red box to finish without a refill can leave the ending dependent on a slot occupied by a waiting small box. Preserve at least one active red lane while grey and yellow refills rotate through the other available spaces. This keeps the final outline color involved throughout the run.

Then identify which counter is waiting: white 4 usually lingers longest because its accents are tiny and scattered, grey 22 needs neighboring colors removed, and yellow 29 has buried food. Grey 16 also pauses in the later plateau. Leave those boxes where they are and add the small yellow or grey boxes only as slots actually become free. Their pauses resolve through the neighboring colors already being eaten, without a reset of the stalled boxes.

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