Do you have recorded data for strategies in CCFS?

A more fun way to demonstrate the effects of a strategy in CCFS is to post a screen shot of it! So my strategy for making Color Bombs is to backtrack to a level that has only 4 candy colors and as large as possible of an open, unobstructed working space in the playing grid so that you can manipulate the candies and make the Color Bombs. One such level is Level 4410, which is a 3-screen , 4-candy-color level where the first screen is relatively large and open. Using Yeti, I was able to create 3 Color Bombs on the screen at the same time:

Another Color Bomb was created in the remaining moves of the game, for a total of 4 for that life. I may be able to create more Color Bombs using Rachel because she duplicates 4 of each thing, but I have not tried that yet.

if anyone has a screenshot of 4 or more Color Bombs on the playing grid, I’d love to see it!

To use Rachel to create Color Bombs or Coloring Candies in CCFS, you should trigger Rachel to make her Rainbow Candy, and then look up, down, left, and right from that Rainbow Candy to see if you can make a row of 6 candies of the same color. For example, on Level 4210, I triggered Rachel and she threw her Rainbow Candy in the middle of the first screen of that level:

Since there was also a Green Candy on the side of that row of 6 Green Candies, this produced a Green Coloring Candy instead of a Color Bomb:

Carefully matching more green candies without setting off the Coloring Candy or destroying the remaining octopuses on this screen, I triggered Rachel into throwing another Rainbow Candy, and she obligingly threw it beside the original Green Coloring Candy:

Now by simply moving the Green Coloring Candy over onto the Rainbow Candy, the Green Coloring Candy was duplicated 4 times! I took a screenshot just as those 4 Green Coloring Candies where starting to explode!

So a total of 5 Coloring Candies were created by carefully using Rachel in a 4-color level of CCFS that had a reasonably open working space on the first screen to manipulate the candy patterns and use Rachel efficiently. Anyone have a screenshot of more than 4 Coloring Candies on the same screen?

Cheers!

@Grumpy_Old_Man This is an example of using lives at certain levels of CCFS to create special things like Coloring Candies that could be useful in completing some Team Tasks in Dachs Delivery Service. It is the type of thing I would try to do for Uncle Bob’s DDS team.

@ElenaVorona Playing straight forward and never backtracking is certainly one strategy for completing Daily Quests, but I am presenting the “backtracking” option for people who may be blocked at a certain level and cannot satisfy their Daily Quests to get the Friendly Fish, Friendly Charge, and Friendly Coloring Candy boosters to help them solve that level. I have been blocked at the same CCFS level in that way for several days (maybe as long as a week), and found that backtracking to solve Daily Quests efficiently to get the boosters and then re-trying the level I was blocked at, was an efficiency way to once again make progress. So I present that “backtracking “ strategy for other players who may be blocked and wish to try it.

However, I disagree that “Any task can be completed by moving forward in the game.”, because some of us are at the very LAST Candy Crush Friends Saga level or the “end of the road” (Level 4440 in IOS as of June 30). We CANNOT move forward to satisfy either Daily Quests or DDS Team Tasks. For example, Last week the “end of the road” was Level 4420 and I was stuck there from last Saturday June 26th to yesterday June 29th. I could complete 3 of my team’s DDS tasks by repeating Level 4420, but not satisfy the other 3 Team Tasks. I also could not satisfy any of my Daily quests that required either a specific helper or a specific candy color that was not available at level 4420, and thus had to backtrack to complete those. So some of us are in very different situations in the game and must use different strategies to cope with our different situations. Good luck to you using your strategy to progress in the game!

One key part of CCFS strategy is exactly how to use Color Bombs and Coloring Candies.

I think the weakest use of a CB or CC is to simply combine it with a plain “target” candy beside it. CBs will simply destroy all candies of that color, while CCs will simply change all candies of that color with the color of the CC.

A stronger use of a CB or CC is to combine with a Fish, Striped, or Wrapped candy. The CB converts all candies of that color into being a Fish, Striped, or Wrapped candy and then sets them off. The CC converts all candies of the target candy color AND all candies of the CC color into being a Fish, Striped, or Wrapped candy and sets all of them off. (That is fun to watch and can be very destructive, which is what you want.)

But how about combining Color Bombs and Coloring Candies with each other? According to data we have gathered so far, the effects we see are:

Color Bomb + Color Bomb = 1 level of destruction.

Color Bomb + Coloring Candy = 2-3 levels of destruction

Coloring Candy + Coloring Candy = 4 levels of destruction centered on the free areas of the grid where the changes in candy colors occur. The destruction will typically spread out from those areas.

This example was combining a Blue with a Purple Coloring Candy on Level 4416:

The blast was spectacular:

At the end of the blast, the Level 4416 looked like:

The caramel cup directly exposed to the free areas of the grid where the candy color changes occurred has had 4 levels of destruction, which completely eliminated it. BUT, the caramel cup at the very bottom of the group of caramel cups was protected from the effects of all that destruction by all the caramel cups around it, and did not suffer even 1 level of destruction!

The conclusion is that while combining Color Bombs and Coloring Candies does create a very widespread destruction, the destruction is centered around the unblocked candies that will be changing color, and blockers that are protected from that destruction by other blockers may remain in place and still have to be dealt with later.