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This is me checking statistics, so anyone who doesn't like statistics look away now!
I have three games all playing the first round. Now every single player should get this event in their games as soon as they play one level, any level, old or new, and pass, right? Well, so long as they are connected to the internet, which is surely the only sensible way to play Candy Crush.
So with the player cards now visible I have noted down who I share a leaderboard with. Details to follow.
Thanks for the tip, @christinewupp! I'll be prepared for that level.
But re. screenshot "img-1892," did you lose that attempt? 😲 Barring any surprises from above (i.e. 3 purples drop, canceling themselves out), that's a "Super Sugar Crush" in the bag. The necessary purple candy is 3 rows above the color bomb. All that was needed was to make the vertical 3-match blue to get it to drop down.
It's funny. When I first started playing Candy, I too mainly looked to the right and left. Eventually I got the habit of looking up and down too. 😆
Next episode I decided to play just the colour bomb starting booster on both games. As it turned out that playing just the colour bomb without stripe/wrap really doesn't help at all, so the super CB/win streak booster game did fare better on this one. ( I failed 4 levels in the normal game and only one in the super but that was probably due to the win streak.)
The next episode I tried to even it out as much as I could: Play CB plus wrap/stripe for the normal CB game, so that would mean both games started with exactly one colour bomb on the board. This left the super CB game with one win streak wrap/stripe more than the other game. (The SuperCB/win streak game also had 3 added moves so I will count any game passed on those last three extra win streak moves as a "fail", even though I am not sure if the algorithm takes account of this or not)
Episode Levels 666 to 680
Again I passed all levels unmarked on both devices except level 673 which saw me just a few moves short on both games. (Maybe I was tired and missed something as I usually find that level easy to pass)
Level 672 (hard) both failed
Level 674 (super hard) both failed
Level 675 (legendary) both failed
Level 677 (hard) both failed
Level 679(hard) both failed. The super colour bomb game failed this one because one of the dragons got trapped in an impossible place: (a switch would have saved it of course)
This was probably due to the extra explosions of the previous colour bomb, so a direct effect of it being "super".
So the verdict from this episode would be that no, the super colour bombs do not on their own help to pass a level.
Here some screenshots that might explain why, especially on legendary levels, they don't have much effect.
These are the two boards after one move taken, in both cases the recommended first move:
Now you might say that one board looks better than the other, but look closely and you will see that the top one is the board with the three extra moves, so the Top here is after a Super colour bomb explosion and the bottom screenshot is the one where I had a normal colour bomb!
Also on levels like these you can see that a super colour bomb will just not have much effect, so for many legendary levels they are just useless.
A normal colour bomb has pretty much the same effect as the super one here. And on these boards there won't be much difference either, after the first moves.
What must be noted is that as the game states the first three colour bombs will be "super" it is significant that I found many legendary levels did not provide me with a chance to create any more colour bombs.
So the verdict may look like the super colour bombs are fairly useless, but note that I only tested if they helped passing a level without boosters.
If you do play boosters such as lollipop or UFO or switch, then with the super colour bombs you will need fewer. They also help to pass easier levels a lot more quickly, which may be good if you are in a rush for some reason. And of course, they are fun with those mega explosions. There may also be more benefit in different level ranges.