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Colour Pour GUIDE

How to Unblock Colour Pour

A legal pour can still bury the color needed to free another bottle and leave no useful empty space.

Play Colour Pour

Decision plan

Set up the position

Protect both empty bottles until they unlock a useful sequence.

Protect the next decision

Finish nearly complete bottles before opening new color chains.

Convert the opportunity

Do not cover a needed color with a different top segment.

A decision sequence in colour-pour

  1. Find the color closest to completion and identify every bottle containing it.
  2. Use one empty bottle as working space while protecting the other for recovery.
  3. Complete the selected color, then reuse its freed bottle to expose the next buried segment.

Mistakes to avoid

  • Pouring into both empty bottles without completing a color.
  • Covering a needed top segment because the destination pour is currently legal.

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