What are your strategies for creating Color Bombs and Coloring Candies?

Uncle_Bob

Color Bombs and Coloring Candies are useful to solve some levels of CCFS and necessary for completing some of the Daily Quests, so how do you do that?

I used two strategies to create CBs and CCs. The first strategy is to make moves that “add a candy” at the end of a striped candy pattern to make a Color Bomb, or at the end of a wrapped candy pattern to make a Coloring Candy. In the first example below I could make use the vertical pattern of cyan candies at the far right to make a striped candy, BUT I saw that if I could just drop that cyan candy in the upper right corner down 1 space, I could make a Color Bomb! Thinking how to do that, I saw that if I moved the orange fish left to match the other 2 orange candies, it would disappear and then the 2 yellow candies would drop down and match the yellow candy that had been swapped with the fish, and all 3 yellow candies would also disappear, and that cyan candy would drop down one space!

Ok, so after that move I had created the candy pattern for making a Color Bomb from the cyan candies.

To make a Coloring Candy, you need to “add a candy” to the shorter end of a pattern that would normally make a wrapped candy. In the second example below , I had a pattern of orange candies in the center that would make a wrapped candy, so I had to find a way to “add an orange candy” to the top of that pattern. I saw that if I moved that yellow candy 1 space to the RIGHT, where if would match the other 2 yellow candies in that row, I would be also moving the orange candy next to it 1 space to the LEFT, where it would be directly on top of pattern of orange candies.

And from the resulting pattern, just moving the center orange candy to the right created an orange coloring candy!

This “add a candy” strategy can also be used when the initial pattern is oriented horizontally—in that case you need to look at how you can match candies below the shorter side of the striped/wrapped candy pattern in order to drop down a candy of the correct color in exactly the correct position. It does take time to carefully inspect the candies to see how you can match and drop things into the correct position, but if you need Color Bombs or Coloring Candies the extra effort of the “add a candy” strategy may create what you need.

How is everyone else creating the necessary Color Bombs and Coloring Candies??

DGenevieve

Thanks for the detailed info @Uncle_Bob .👍

For me, I don’t spend too much time strategizing how to make certain candies. If something is obvious, I’ll spend a few seconds and make it happen. If not, I’ll just replay.😄

actress

I just think about playing the level don't about what 🍬 to make. The idea is to have fun!

Diamond_Lim

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actipton80

I just play the levels and take opportunities to make these candies when I see them. Sometimes I miss an opportunity and that annoys me.

CassD

If I spent time thinking about strategies etc, it would take the fun out of playing for me. I'm not a very good player and I know I miss opportunities, but I play for relaxation and enjoyment. I'm used to getting stuck on a level, but just keep replaying until I eventually pass it - and then I have a great sense of satisfaction.

Iffu2

Thanks for the detailed info @Uncle_Bob .👍

Uncle_Bob

I totally understand that for many folks (including my partner!) the goal is to play for fun and not worry about strategy, but for some of us each level is a GREAT NEW PUZZLE to be solved and we like having useful strategies. Like @actipton80 , I really get annoyed when I make a move and see too late that there was a better move I could have made. For those who like strategies, my second strategy for making Color Bombs and Coloring Candies is to “fill the middle” when you have a pattern of two pairs of candies with the same color, separated by 1 candy of a different color. In the example below there are two pairs of orange candies separated by a green candy. But if you match the 3 greens by moving the center one to the right, that will bring down 3 new candies in that column.

You are taking a chance, but you HOPE an orange candy will come down that can be moved into the middle. In this case an orange candy did drop down, but ended up right above the middle, so you need to take 1 more turn to “fill the middle” and make a Color Bomb!

The “Fill the middle” strategy can also be used to make Coloring Candies, but that is of course harder. In the example below, however, the pattern to make a Color Bomb was already there, so the problem was just to bring down another cyan candy on top of it to be able to “fill the middle” with 2 cyan candies and make a cyan Coloring Candy.

So after matching the 3 orange candies, the center cyan candy drops down 1 space and is now in a position to be moved down to “fill the middle “ and make the cyan Coloring Candy!

Since I have encountered levels that are EXTREMELY difficult to solve unless you create CBs or CCs and then combine them with fish, striped, or wrapped candies to get their maximum destructive effects, I hope these strategies will be useful for some other players.

And I’d really like to know if anyone else has effective strategies for creating CBs and CCs that I might not have thought of!

fabke

@Uncle_Bob thanks I can use this tips

Thanks for the tag @Diamond Lim

Nikolaos_Prodromidis

Hi!

I have no strategy! If a colorbomb or coloring candy is ready to be created, I do it!

Sometimes I force the creation of a colorbomb, when there are two pairs of same color candies horizontally, with a different one in the middle! Then I try to match 3 candies in the column where the different color candy is, to "force" a fifth candy stay in the middle! Sometimes it works!!

I mostly do this in CCJS Royal Championship!! 😎

Uncle_Bob

@NikolaosProdromidis Yes! That sounds similar to the “fill the middle” strategy I mentioned just above, and it has worked for me also! It reminds me of how an American “slot machine” works, because it all depends on what falls down in that middle row, but sometimes it can even create a Coloring Candy.

What is a CCJS Royal Championship? (I’m new here.)