Yarn Loop level guide
Yarn Loop Level 873 Walkthrough
Unpick a smiling sewing basket stitched on a gray canvas: a zipper, yellow sticks, a green panel, a pink button and two navy needles sit above a cyan-and-blue rimmed face, and linked bobbin pairs and chains must be sent together.
Verified Board Notes
- Initial Layout Geometry
- The basket fills a gray canvas with a thin tan border inside a rounded track; all five track places are free and the five storage slots are empty. Four supply columns show gray 50 over cyan 10, navy 20 over a hidden bobbin, blue 30 over a hidden bobbin, and pink 10 over cyan 30. Lines link navy 20 to cyan 10 and blue 30 to cyan 30.
- Goal / Target Area
- Clear the whole canvas, including the gray background and tan border. The picture peels from the right side inward; the lower-left blue and cyan rim, the zipper and yellow sticks at the top, and a few cyan dots in the center band go last.
- Opening Moves
- Send gray 50 (column 1) to strip the gray canvas border. Send pink 10 (column 4), then blue 30 (column 3), which pulls its linked cyan 30 along. Blue empties on the outer rim, and pink 10 plus the blue 0 / cyan 30 pair drop into storage. Next send tan 40 and the second gray 50 as they surface.
- Danger Zone
- In the middle of the level, the lime 2 / dark brown 3 / gray 0 chain sits in three storage slots while the blue 0 / pink 2 pair keeps lapping with no pink exposed and the track fills up. Relief comes only after coral, green, tan and navy open the right-side pink stripes and brown band.
- Unique Mechanics
- Linked bobbins: lines join two or three supply bobbins (navy 20 to cyan 10, blue 30 to cyan 30, lime 10 to dark brown 30 to gray 50, later cyan to navy pairs). Sending one sends the whole group, and a spent member stays attached as a 0 until its partners empty, so pairs return to storage together. Hidden question-mark bobbins reveal as the bobbin above leaves its column.
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 873
- Treat each linked group as one move: check how many track places and storage slots the whole chain needs before sending it.
- Expect the first blue 30 / cyan 30 pair to bounce back. Cyan has nothing to pull until the outer blue rim and gray border are gone.
- Peel the right side first. Pink, coral and brown pixels on the right open before the lower-left rim and the green panel.
How to Solve Yarn Loop Level 873 — Full Solution
- Open with column 1: send gray 50. It laps the board and strips the gray canvas border around the basket, dropping into the teens. Cyan 10 then rises to the top of column 1, still tethered to navy 20 in column 2.
- Send pink 10 from column 4, then send blue 30 from column 3. Blue 30 is linked to the cyan 30 under the pink, so both bobbins enter together. Blue empties on the outer blue rim, but cyan and pink find nothing exposed yet and return to storage as pink 10 plus the blue 0 / cyan 30 pair. That return is normal.
- Send tan 40 that surfaced in column 3 to peel the tan frame strip at the canvas edge, then send the second gray 50 when it reaches column 4. Hidden columns now reveal dark brown 30, green 10, navy 40 and coral and pink 10s.
- Send the cyan 10 / navy 20 pair from columns 1 and 2, then navy 50 when it tops column 1. Navy eats the dark outline on the right side of the basket.
- Once the right edge of the cyan rim is exposed, send the blue 0 / cyan 30 pair back out of storage; cyan drains into single digits. Send the buffered pink 10 when the gray around the pink button is gone.
- Work the right half of the face: coral 10s for the cheeks, tan for the face, and the blue 20 / pink 10 pair from column 2 for the rim and button stripes.
- Send the three-bobbin chain lime 10 / dark brown 30 / gray 50 together. It returns as lime 2, dark brown 3, gray 0 and holds three storage slots for a long stretch; the empty slots outline in red.
- The blue 0 / pink 2 pair now laps with nothing to pull while the track is nearly full. Feed coral 10, green 20, tan 40 and navy 40 into the right side until the last pink stripes and brown band open, then let the stuck pair and the buffered chain finish.
- Clear the lower-left diagonal blue and cyan rim and the green panel with the cyan 30 / navy 40 pair and the green and lime 40 bobbins. Send the cyan 0 / navy 5 / dark brown 0 chain back out whenever navy outline is reachable.
- With only navy 25 in storage and tan 40 and cyan 20 left in supply, strip the last of the zipper, the yellow sticks and the navy outline around them with gray, lime, dark brown and navy.
- Send cyan 20 for the last cyan dots in the center band; the final cyan pixel ends the level.
Colors in this level:
Gray, Tan, Dark brown, Navy, Blue, Cyan, Pink, Coral, Green, Lime
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Sending the lime / dark brown / gray chain while storage already holds two returns, leaving no room for the next pair.
- Re-sending the blue 0 / pink 2 pair before any pink stripe is exposed, which only adds another lap while the track is full.
- Forgetting the gray background and tan border are part of the board; gray and tan bobbins must strip them too.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my blue bobbin show 0 but stay on the track in Level 873?
It is linked to another bobbin. A spent member of a linked pair stays attached until its partner, such as the pink 2, also empties.
What should I send first in Level 873?
Gray 50 from column 1, then pink 10 and the blue 30 / cyan 30 pair. Gray clears the canvas border that blocks the other colors.
How do I keep storage from filling up in Level 873?
The lime 10 / dark brown 30 / gray 50 chain comes back as lime 2, dark brown 3 and gray 0 and holds three storage slots for a long stretch, so don't send it while storage already holds two returns. Hold the blue 0 / pink 2 pair until a pink stripe is exposed, and feed coral, green, tan and navy into the right side to open the pink stripes and brown band.