Yarn Loop level guide
Yarn Loop Level 851 Walkthrough
Peel the cyan background off a pixel tiger, then unstitch its orange and black stripes, white face and chest, metal collar beads and pink cheeks while a linked orange-cyan-black chain waits in storage.
Verified Board Notes
- Initial Layout Geometry
- Seated tiger on a cyan field: orange body with black stripes, white face and chest bib, pink cheeks and nose, and silver metal beads across the collar and paws. Three supply columns show cyan 50, cyan 40 and orange 30 on covered stands marked 3; five storage slots start open and the track is empty.
- Goal / Target Area
- Remove the full cyan background first, then the orange and black body, the white face and bib, the silver collar and paw beads, the pink cheek pixels and the last cyan specks hidden inside the left side.
- Opening Moves
- Cyan 50 (left), cyan 40 (middle), orange 30 plus the cyan under it (right); orange 30 parks in storage until the cyan beside the flank thins, then white 40 from the right column.
- Danger Zone
- Late in the level the orange 0 / cyan 2 / black 0 chain sits in storage taking three slots; when a linked white-and-orange pair parks beside it, all five slots fill and storage glows red until a pair is re-sent.
- Unique Mechanics
- Covered stands hide each column's next bobbins (the number shows how many remain). Link bars join bobbins across columns; the orange 20-cyan 40-black 30 chain travels and parks as one unit. Silver bobbins handle the metal beads.
Storage: the five slots where returning bobbins park until their color is reachable again. Linked: bobbins joined by a bar leave together and take one track place each.
Quick Tips for Level 851
- Park white 30/36/38 when they come back partly used; they only become efficient once the cyan field and black stripes around the face are gone.
- Before sending the orange-cyan-black chain, make sure three track places are free, because the linked bobbins enter together.
- Cyan 2 on the chain is reserved for the cyan specks inside the tiger's left side, so keep storage space for it and re-send it only when those specks are exposed.
How to Solve Yarn Loop Level 851 — Full Solution
- Send cyan 50 from the left column, then cyan 40 from the middle column. Both run dry on the cyan background around the tiger, and each covered stand lifts its next bobbin: orange 40 on the left, white 40 in the middle.
- Send orange 30 from the right column and then the cyan bobbin that surfaces under it. The cyan keeps peeling the border, but orange 30 finds no reachable orange on its first lap and parks in storage at 30.
- Send white 40 from the right column while orange 30 is still circling. Its stand lifts a black 20; send that too. Orange 30 then parks at 30, and the right column shows white 30 over cyan 40. Re-send the stored orange 30 once the cyan beside the tiger's right flank has thinned; it starts stripping the outer body stripes.
- Expect white 30, white 36 and white 38 to come back to storage only partly used while the cyan field and black outline still wall off the white face. Leave them parked and keep at least two storage slots open for the black and cyan traffic.
- Work the rest of the cyan field and the outline with the cyan 50 and black 30 bobbins as they surface, plus orange 40/20 for the lower body and paws. Send the silver 20 when it reaches the top of the left column.
- Once the left cyan strip and the black stripes around the face are thin, re-send the parked white 30, 36 and 38 together with the white 30/40 supplies. They now consume steadily and remove most of the face, ears and chest bib.
- When orange 20, cyan 40 and black 30 sit on top of three columns joined by link bars, send the chain. It takes three track places at once, so free the track first; orange drains fast, black works the stripes and cyan stalls at 2.
- Use the linked silver 10 pair and the other silver 10s on the metal beads along the collar and paws, and send pink 10 for the cheeks and nose. Orange 20 and white 30 mop up the lower body.
- The chain returns to storage as orange 0, cyan 2 and black 0 and holds three of the five slots, because the last cyan specks sit inside the tiger's left side. Keep feeding black 20/30 and white 30 through the two remaining slots.
- If a linked white-and-orange pair also parks, all five slots are taken and storage glows red. Re-send that pair first: its orange still has targets in the lower left, and the white 0 simply rides along as its link partner until the pair clears out.
- With the left-side cyan specks now on the edge, re-send the chain from storage. Cyan 2 finishes the last cyan stitches and the zero-count orange and black leave with it, emptying storage.
- Finish with white 30 and silver 10 on the last white specks and metal beads; the final stitch empties the board.
Colors in this level:
Cyan, Orange, White, Black, Silver, Pink
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Re-sending the parked white bobbins while the cyan border still surrounds the face just cycles them back into storage.
- Parking a second linked pair next to the stored chain fills all five slots and turns storage red.
- Writing off the chain because two of its bobbins read 0: the cyan 2 still has a job at the end.
Frequently Asked Questions
What should I send first in Yarn Loop Level 851?
Cyan 50 from the left column and cyan 40 from the middle column. They eat the cyan background and lift orange 40 and white 40 out of the covered stands.
Why does the orange-cyan-black group never leave storage?
It is a linked chain. Orange and black hit 0 early, but cyan stays at 2 until the hidden cyan specks inside the tiger's left side reach the edge; re-send the chain then.
What do the numbers under the first bobbins mean?
They are covered stands: the number counts the bobbins still hidden in that column. Each send lifts the next one into view until the stand is used up.