# Ants Haul: Color Puzzle — Tap to match, clear the plate

> Tap to match, clear the plate (iPhone/iPad app by MSP AI, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ants-haul-color-puzzle/id6804378463 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MSP AI, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783069493)
- Category: Games, Casual, Puzzle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-31
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ants-haul-color-puzzle/id6804378463/reviews.md

## What is Ants Haul?

Ants Haul runs on one rule: nothing can be reached until it is open from outside the plate. Everything else in this game follows from that.

Each level is a picture built out of food - a mushroom, a cookie, a slice of watermelon - laid out on a plate in the sun. Tap a card and every block of that color goes to work. In Poke & Burst, the mode new colonies start in, a crew races out and lights a fuse on each matching crate. Switch to Ants Haul from the porch and the same colony instead sends ants to carry the blocks home one at a time. Clear the plate and the food goes on your pantry shelf.

The difficulty is reach. A block walled in on every side cannot be touched, so the rim has to be peeled first, and each color you clear opens the road to the next. Choose the wrong color early and the middle stays sealed.

ONE THUMB, NO DEXTERITY
Tapping a card is the entire control. No swiping, no dragging, no reflex test. Portrait, one-handed, and the colony does the work.

WHERE THE THINKING IS
- Three, four or five slots depending on the level, and a colony keeps its slot until it has cleared every block it can reach.
- Three cards in hand with nine more showing behind them, so you can plan several moves ahead.
- A card wearing a sleep mark has nothing it can reach yet. Open a way in and it wakes up on its own.
- Fill every slot with colonies that can no longer reach anything and you are stuck. Spend a wake to send one home and take the slot back, or restart the level. Clearing levels earns more wakes.
- Five minutes on the clock per level - it is a floor, not a difficulty; even the hardest levels leave real time to spare.

THREE WAYS TO PLAY
Two doors on the porch switch between Poke & Burst and Ants Haul any time you like - same boards, same difficulty, only the finish changes. A third look, Light Up, keeps the Ants Haul rules but leaves every cleared tile glowing instead of turning back to sand. Progress in each is kept separately.

140 LEVELS, 108 PICTURES
Levels run from three colors up to six, and the later ones bury the easy openings. Nineteen pictures come back at a second or third difficulty, so clearing the easy cut of one is not the last you see of it. Every food you carry home takes its place on the pantry shelf with your best time and your clear count under it. Fill the shelf far enough and upgrades open: quicker workers, colonies that push out faster, and a colony mound that turns its autumn colors. Claiming an upgrade costs nothing - the number on the row is a threshold, never a price.

LEADERBOARD
Ranked by how many levels you have cleared, with a daily, a weekly and an all-time board. No sign-in - open it once and a name is picked for you, change it whenever you like.

A FEW ONE-TIME HELPS
Coins are earned only by clearing levels, never bought with real money, and they buy three one-time helps: see every card left in the deck, pull a reachable card to the front of your hand, or open one extra slot for the rest of the level. One use per help, per level.

WHAT IS NOT IN IT
- No ads.
- No in-app purchases.
- No account and no sign-in.
- No energy meter and no lives.
- Plays offline.

SETTINGS THAT MATTER
Colour-blind marks. Separate switches for sound effects, music and vibration. English, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese, picked up from your phone on first launch and changeable any time. One optional note a day, silent until you say yes.

The ants are waiting at the edge of the plate.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-09

Two new ways to play - Poke & Burst and Light Up - each with its own progress alongside the original Ants Haul. Levels grow from 40 to 140 across 108 pictures. A leaderboard ranks how many levels you have cleared. Plus a soundtrack, a five-minute level clock, and coin-bought one-time helps: peek the deck, pull a card forward, or add a slot.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-01

No release notes.

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