Sand Loop Level 43 Solution Walkthrough

Sand Loop Level 43 Guide: The Beach Sunset Puzzle

This is where the game stops holding your hand and starts hiding the pieces you need. Sand Loop Level 43 features a pixel art "Beach Sunset"—a scenic mix of palm trees, ocean, and a setting sun.

It looks peaceful, but the layout is aggressive. You’re dealing with a Logic Level, specifically a "Locked Cache" puzzle. You have a massive stack of specific colors locked behind a gate, and the key is sitting tantalizingly out of reach at the bottom of the tray. If you try to speed-run this like an Ice Breaking level, you will deadlock your conveyor belt in seconds.

The hook here is the color separation. The background (sky/water) is available immediately, but the foreground (palm trees) is totally locked down. You have to paint the picture backwards: background first, details last.

Sand Loop Level 43 Solution: The Pixel Art Breakdown

Before you tap a single bucket, look at the target image on the top screen. You need to understand the layers to know which cups to prioritize.

The Palette: The level uses five distinct colors. Yellow and Orange for the sky/sun. Cyan and Royal Blue for the water. Dark Red (Maroon) for the palm trees.
The Danger Zone: The water. It isn't just one shade of blue. It’s a striped pattern of Cyan and Royal Blue. If you aren't paying attention, you'll waste your limited Royal Blue buckets on the Cyan sections, leaving you with nothing to finish the deep water later.
Fill Order Prediction: The physics of Sand Loop usually favor bottom-up filling, but here, the "foreground" palm trees are actually the last thing you should worry about. Your fill order is Sky -> Water -> Trees. Why? Because the Dark Red buckets required for the trees are the ones behind the lock. You literally cannot paint the trees until you finish the rest of the painting.

Tackling the "Ghost Key" in Sand Loop Level 43

The biggest obstacle in Sand Loop Level 43 is the Golden Key sitting at the bottom of the third column.

Here is the trap: The key is sitting in an empty slot (a gap between the stacks). Most players see the key and try to figure out how to "tap" it or drop a bucket onto it immediately. You can't.

This key is a Clearance Reward. It is physically blocked by the columns next to it. You cannot access it until you have cleared a significant portion of the middle stacks (Columns 2 and 4).

The specific mechanic blocking you here is Tray Geometry. The game won't let the key slide out or be collected until the "pressure" from the neighboring stacks is relieved. This forces you to play the level in a very specific sequence: you must burn through the Yellow, Orange, and Cyan buckets first. If you stare at the key and try to snipe it, you’ll just sit there confused. Ignore the key. Focus on the available colors. The key is a byproduct of doing your job right, not the starting line.

Sand Loop Level 43 Step-by-Step Walkthrough

This level has a strict dependency chain. You cannot get the Red Sand until you get the Key. You cannot get the Key until you clear the Sky/Water sand.

1. Clearing the "Sky Stack" (Yellow & Orange)

Your first move is to identify the buckets that are free to grab. Looking at your supply, you have stacks in the middle dominated by Orange and Yellow.

Tap the top Orange and Yellow buckets to start the belt.
Crucial Timing: Do not mix colors yet. Your conveyor capacity is small (5 slots). If you put an Orange, a Cyan, and a Yellow on the belt at the same time, the dispenser nozzle has to switch colors rapidly. This creates "waste sand" or gaps.
Send a batch of Yellows first to fill the sun. Then send a batch of Oranges for the sky surrounding it. Keeping the colors grouped keeps the flow fast and prevents the nozzle from jamming.

2. The Cyan Transition

Once the top layer of Yellow/Orange is gone, you’ll expose the Cyan and Royal Blue buckets underneath in the middle columns.

The water takes up the bottom half of the canvas, but be careful.
Watch the progress bar on the canvas. When the Cyan bar is nearly full, stop tapping Cyan buckets. You don't want to overflow.
Slot Management: At this point, you might see the Golden Key start to wiggle or become highlighted. Don't panic and grab it yet if your belt is full. Wait until you have at least 2 empty slots on the conveyor. Keys take up space just like buckets.

3. Collecting the Key & Unlocking the Reds

As you finish the blue tones of the water, the stacks in the middle will deplete.

Once the blocking buckets are gone, the key will either automatically collect or slide into a tap-able position.
Tap it immediately.
The Unlock: The lock on the far-left column will shatter. This reveals a massive cache of 4-5 Dark Red buckets.

4. The Palm Tree Finale

Now you are in the endgame. The background (Sky/Water) should be 90-100% done.

The only thing left is the Palm Trees.
The Left column is now open. These Red buckets are exclusively for the trees.
Rapid Fire: Since there is no other color left to paint, you can tap all the Red buckets in rapid succession. Fill the conveyor belt.
The dispenser will draw from them continuously, painting the dark silhouette of the trees over your nice sunset background.

Pro Tip for Level 43: There is a solitary Red bucket at the bottom of the right-most column. It often gets buried under Blues. Do not let it sit there until the very end if you can help it. If you see it pop up while you are doing the water, and you have a free slot, put it on the belt. It won't hurt the painting (since trees are the top layer), and it clears a slot for more useful colors.

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