Food Hunt Level 413 Walkthrough

Published: 2026-11-13

For Food Hunt level 413, start blue, follow with white, and reserve orange for the end after its surrounding colors disappear. The eight-color picture shows a gull wearing a red cape on a rock beside the sea, with a light blue sky, clouds and a spider hanging from a web. The key is clearing the large accessible areas before committing slots to enclosed colors.

Four colors have most of their pixels trapped: dark grey is 97 percent enclosed, red 96 percent, light blue 70 percent and grey 69 percent. Orange is even more restrictive because every orange pixel begins surrounded. Filling the slots with those colors too soon leaves little capacity for the blue and white work that opens their paths. The starting blue area alone covers 28.6 percent of the board, with white covering another 23.2 percent.

The Gull's Answer Key from Blue to Orange

Blue, white, then the sky's light blue and newly exposed dark grey, grey, red and the other light blue shade. Orange goes last, after its enclosing colors have cleared.

Treat blue and white as the opening pair, with the middle colors chosen as their paths become available in the bottom queue. The sky's light blue and the other light blue shade have separate roles in the route, so follow the matching box at the front of the queue. The strongly enclosed light blue shade belongs with the later grey and red work. Orange has no early access at all, so moving it forward cannot help remove the colors that surround it.

Walkthrough for the Sea, Cape and Enclosed Details

1. Start the largest blue area. Select blue when it reaches the front of the queue because its 28.6 percent share is the largest in this level. It needs longer to empty than the other colors, so an early start keeps that big job from becoming an unnecessary late wait. The ants can eat only blue cells they can reach, leaving any covered patches for later. Use the ongoing blue clear as your opening work while watching which color the queue makes available next.

Video walkthrough of level 413

The level 413 walkthrough shows the large blue and white opening before the enclosed details of the caped gull can clear. Watch how the route to orange depends on removing the surrounding colors first.

2. Run white beside blue. Choose white immediately after blue so the two largest areas can shrink together. White makes up 23.2 percent of the field and forms part of the enclosure around orange. Eating white therefore does more than reduce a large patch: it also helps open a route toward that final color. Do not delay this second major area in favor of a mostly trapped detail from the gull or its cape.
3. Hold the deeply trapped group. Dark grey, grey, red and the enclosed light blue shade cannot all complete while their neighbors remain. Red is blocked across 96 percent of its area, while dark grey has 97 percent inaccessible. Accept these boxes as the surrounding colors are eaten, instead of making every trapped color active at once. The size of a visible red patch on the cape does not tell you whether its ants have an open route to it.
4. Use the newly exposed middle. After blue and white clear substantial areas, look for the grey and light blue choices offered by the queue. Grey starts 69 percent enclosed and the later light blue shade 70 percent enclosed, so both have some accessible pixels before every neighbor disappears. Let their ants remove those open portions while the remaining surrounding colors are eaten. Their last covered cells can wait for access without requiring you to force a different color into the same occupied space.
5. Separate red from dark grey. Prepare space before adding the almost entirely enclosed red and dark grey boxes. When there is a choice, avoid selecting both at the same moment because each can hold its slot for a long stretch. Once their neighboring pixels disappear, the ants can finish the remaining count and release the slot. A partial reduction alone does not make a slot free; the entire box has to reach zero before you can replace it.
6. Finish with orange. Orange is enclosed by white, dark grey and two additional colors, with no matching pixel available at the beginning. Wait until those barriers have disappeared and the board is nearly empty before selecting its box. An early orange selection would simply occupy space while the other colors perform the necessary opening work. After its paths are exposed, orange clears quickly and completes the picture of the gull beside the sea.

Why Orange Cannot Clear with the Cape Still Enclosed

Check orange's enclosure before diagnosing a stalled orange box. White and dark grey, together with two other colors, surround every orange cell. Its counter cannot complete just because the gull is already recognizable or some of the sea has disappeared. Leave orange until those specific barriers are eaten, and use the earlier queue choices to do the opening work. This fully enclosed color is different from grey, which has some food accessible from the start.

The broader jam happens when dark grey, red, grey and the trapped light blue shade occupy four of the five slots together. That leaves only one place for colors that could free them. Limit waiting boxes to two, keep two slots available for large accessible colors and incoming choices, and avoid pairing red with dark grey when you can choose otherwise. The board shows the targets, but the bottom queue determines which box you can actually select.

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