Plan your approach to Level 1522
Configuration 1 · Targets, tray management, and time-saving decisions
Your collection plan
Level 1522, Configuration 1 has a 2:45 time limit. Your targets are Minicar Yellow × 6; Lipstick Orange × 6. There are 177 objects on the board: 12 targets and 165 non-targets. Targets account for 7% of the starting objects.
Which items to distinguish
The item names also share color labels in these pairs: Lipstick Orange and Perfume Orange; Lipstick Orange and Toucan Orange; Lipstick Orange and Parasol Orange. Use the icon's outline as well as its color. These are recognition checks based on item names, rather than a claim that every pair looks equally similar on the board.
Where to focus your opening
You have 2 target types to track. Start with a complete exposed triple, then rescan the surface. Choose the type whose third match you can already identify, instead of opening unfinished sets across Minicar Yellow, Lipstick Orange at the same time.
Non-targets make up 93% of this configuration (165 objects). When targets are obscured, look for finishable non-target triples that reveal them. Keep each removal purposeful: a single non-target occupies tray space without completing a set. The counts indicate a large distraction pool, but do not establish where any object is hidden.
How to use the time limit
The 12 target objects require 4 target triples. Dividing the 165-second limit by those triples gives 41.3 seconds per target triple if all time were spent on targets. This is a planning allowance, not a measured completion time; searching and clearing non-targets also use that same clock.
Use the available planning allowance for deliberate identification. A hurried wrong variant can consume tray space unnecessarily. Complete existing pairs first, then rescan for another full set; the arithmetic alone does not guarantee that the layout is easy.
