Sand Loop Level 343 Solution Walkthrough

Sand Loop Level 343 Guide: The Ice Skate Puzzle

This isn't a speed level, so put down the energy drink. Sand Loop Level 343 is a logic puzzle hidden inside a layering problem. You are painting a pixel art Ice Skate set against a two-tone background. The challenge here isn't twitch reflexes; it's digging through a very messy, roped-up supply tray to find the colors you need for the bottom of the image before you accidentally overfill the top.

Sand Loop Level 343 Solution: The Ice Skate

Look at the target image. It's distinct from the usual abstract patterns.

The Art: A classic winter ice skate.
Color Palette:
- Pastel Pink: The main body of the boot.
- Dark Red: The heavy trim, heel, and toe cap.
- Purple: The skate blade (bottom).
- Cyan: The ice (bottom background).
- Green: The wall or sky (top background).
- White: Small details for laces and scratches on the ice.

The Danger Zones: The Purple Blade is your biggest risk. It's a thin strip of pixels at the very bottom of the boot. If you flood the board with Cyan (ice) before you secure the Purple blade, you might bury the blade's outline, making it impossible to get a "Perfect" fill. Also, watch out for the White Laces. They are tiny pixel clusters in the middle of the Red/Pink boot. Don't let the Pink spill over them.

Fill Order Prediction: Mechanically, the tray forces you to grab Green (Top) early. Visually, you want to build from the bottom up: Purple Blade -> Pink/Red Boot -> Cyan Ice -> Green Sky. You will have to fight the tray's layout to make this happen.

Tackling the Vertical Rope in Sand Loop Level 343

The most annoying obstacle in Level 343 is the Vertical Rope located dead center in the tray.

Look at the middle column. There is a standard Green cup in the third row connected by a rope to a Cyan loop cup way down in the fifth row. This is a dependency nightmare. You cannot move the top Green cup without dragging the bottom Cyan cup with it.

Why is this hard? Because of the Slot Economy. You only have 5 slots on your conveyor belt. If you have 4 cups already moving and you try to tap this roped pair, nothing happens. You need two empty slots simultaneously to pull this rope. If you don't plan for that gap, you'll be stuck tapping a frozen cup while your timer ticks down.

Sand Loop Level 343 Step-by-Step Walkthrough

The tray is stacked high. You can't reach the "correct" colors (Purple/Cyan) until you clear the "wrong" colors (Green) sitting on top. Here is how to dismantle the stack without ruining the art.

1. Clearing the Green "Overburden"

The top row is almost entirely Green Loop cups. It feels wrong to pour the sky color first, but you have no choice.

Tap the Green Loop cups on the top left and right. Let them fill the green section at the top of the canvas.
Tap the single Dark Red cup in the top center. This will start the trim on the boot.
Mystery Cup Alert: The second and third rows are littered with Grey Mystery cups marked with ?. Clear the cups directly above them immediately. You need to know what colors they are hiding (usually Pink or Red) to plan your next move.

2. Managing the Vertical Rope

Once the top two rows are thinned out, you will expose the Vertical Rope in the center column.

Wait until your conveyor belt is almost empty. Do not queue up other cups.
Tap the Green/Cyan tied pair. Both cups will jump to the belt.
This is a good move because it gives you a burst of Green for the top and starts the Cyan layer for the ice at the bottom.
Warning: Do not let this Cyan cup pour if the Purple blade hasn't been started yet. Ideally, try to sneak a Purple cup (from the second row, far right) onto the belt before the Cyan cup reaches the nozzle.

3. The Horizontal Rope Trap

Now look at the bottom of the tray. You have two horizontal ropes connecting Red and Purple cups.

These are your "Boot Builders." The Red is for the toe/heel, and the Purple is for the blade.
These ropes are heavy. Like the vertical one, they require two slots.
Timing is key here. You want the Purple to pour cleanly. Try to clear any stray White or Cyan cups from the belt before launching a Red/Purple rope pair. You want the Purple sand to hit the canvas when nothing else is interfering with the blade outline.

4. Filling the Cyan Background

By the time you reach the bottom of the tray, you'll be left with mostly Cyan Loop cups.

The Cyan background (the ice) is forgiving. It covers a large area at the bottom.
Save these for last. If you pour them too early, they mix with the Red/Pink of the boot and look messy.
Once the boot (Pink/Red) and blade (Purple) are solid, you can spam the remaining Cyan cups to fill in the ice and finish the level. The White scratches on the ice usually fill automatically if you have a steady stream of Cyan pushing the white sand into place.

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