Sand Loop Level 260 Solution Walkthrough

Sand Loop Level 260 Guide: The Christmas Bear Puzzle

This isn't just a cute holiday picture; it's a resource management nightmare disguised as a festive bear. You are looking at the "Christmas Bear in Chimney" pixel art. It’s a logic-heavy level, specifically designed to test your patience with Roped Stacks and hidden information via Mystery Cups.

The hook here is the White paint. You need a massive amount of it for the chimney snow, the hat trim, and the background sparkles, but looking at your tray, you can barely see any. They are buried or hidden. Mismanaging your white cups here guarantees a restart.

Sand Loop Level 260 Solution: The Layer Cake

This image is strictly layered, and messing up the vertical order will ruin the pixel art.

Color Palette: You are juggling Forest Green (background), Bright Red (hat/chimney), Orange/Gold (the bear’s skin), and the critical White (snow/trim/sparkles). There are also dark outlines, likely hiding in the mystery cups.
The Danger Zones: The background isn't solid green. It has those little white "plus sign" sparkles. This means you can't just mindlessly dump green paint; you have to interrupt the flow with white bursts. If you miss a sparkle, the green overwrites it, and the level fails perfection.
Fill Order Prediction: The game typically prints bottom-to-top or layer-by-layer. You’ll be building the red brick chimney first, then the white snow "lid," then the bear's head, and finally the hat.

Tackling the Roped Corners in Sand Loop Level 260

The nastiest obstacle in Level 260 is the Roped Stack mechanic on the bottom left and right corners. Look at the bottom of your tray. You have an Orange cup tied directly to a White cup with a thick rope. Here is the trap: In Sand Loop, ropes usually bind items physically. When you tap that Orange cup, you aren't just getting one item; you might be pulling the attached White cup into your queue immediately, or locking that slot until the top is clear. If pulling the rope dumps two cups into your conveyor slots at once, and you are already at 4/5 capacity, you will jam the machine. Game over. The Fix: Never touch the Roped Stacks unless you have at least 2 empty slots in your belt capacity (0/5 or 1/5 is safe). Treat these ropes as "double-wide" loads.

Sand Loop Level 260 Step-by-Step Walkthrough

1. Clearing the Top "Trash" Layer

The level starts with a symmetric spread of Red and Orange cups on the top row, flanking some Greens.

Your first priority is the Red cups. The bottom of the image is the red brick chimney.
Get the Reds onto the belt immediately.
Do not release the top Green cups yet unless the scanner bar is actively painting the green background edges. If you release Green too early while the printer wants Red bricks, you’ll paint over the chimney.

2. The Mystery Cup Gamble

Once the top layer thins out, you are left with a wall of grey '?' Mystery Cups in the center and the third row.

This is where the "Sparkle" panic happens. You need White for the background stars, but you don't see any White cups.
Tap the Mystery Cups one by one. Do not spam tap them.
You are fishing for White paint or dark outline colors.
If you reveal a color you don't need yet (like a high-up Red for the hat), let it ride the loop. Don't let it clog your 5-slot limit. If the Mystery Cup reveals a color that matches the current print line, send it.

3. Cracking the Snow Line (The Ropes)

Now you reach the middle of the image: the white snow on top of the chimney.

This is the bottleneck. You need White paint now.
This is when you trigger the Roped Stacks on the sides.
Ensure your capacity is low (0/5 or 1/5). Tap the Orange/White roped bundle.
The Orange might be for the bear's hand (which sits on the snow), while the White is for the snow itself. Watch the order they hit the conveyor. You may need to let the Orange loop around once so the White can print the snow layer first.

4. The Final Face & Hat

Once the snow line is printed, the rest is standard Sand Loop rhythm.

The bear's face is a large block of Orange.
The final challenge is the Santa Hat. It requires Red, but make sure you save a final dollop of White for the pom-pom on the tip of the hat.
If you wasted your white cups on the background sparkles earlier without planning, you will fail right at the the very tip of the hat. Keep one White cup in reserve!

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