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Oh my goodness, it had to be you to get it right @MannyFae ! 😁 Sorry @Alienscar : I had to stick with my garden flowers and as this one is called hollyhock……

The account that made it to stage six is Allium. But the mysterious imposter used Christine's photo from one of last year's competitions.

I'm the Hollyhock on this board. I gave up two hours from the end. Even if the leader doesn't pass vetting, two others are also just too fast for my six tokens. Well, that's it then. There is no longer any need to stay anonymous because I won't be going to London, I'm now officially one of the losers who got "scammed" (by King and their wonderful multiplier tokens, not the other players I hasten to add.)

My guess is that she is Holly Hock on my board. Everything matches.

I was doing an all nighter @teenybee but I shouldn't have done. I was on 7th and 8th place throughout, at one point @Big_Dave overtook me and then I overtook him a bit later. If you're reading this @Big_Dave what time did you move up ahead of hollyhock? It was around midnight here. I deliberately didn't look at the leaders at all, because I wanted to keep crushing to the end of the round and was worried I'd give up if I saw they were further ahead than I could catch up with my tokens. I kept half my tokens after playing three of them up front. But this morning my eyes are so bad I can hardly focus after too much crushing and staying up all night. I gave up two hours from the end as those scores are not what I thought was humanly possible, but I guess I must have done my calculations wrong. I stopped at a nice round 400K and after I'd used up all my gold and boosters in the account. These guys must score more than 100K per token. Well, I. can't do that, not today, not ever.

I chose to come out in the garden instead. It's lovely weather. I'll post the final leaderboard later if no one else does. So my six tokens were good for nothing. I did better last year, when there were no tokens and instead of concentrating I watched TV while crushing. Damn those tokens!

I'm playing on that leaderboard @Fantasio1 . Well, I was playing I should say. I've used all my six tokens and gave up when I reached just over a nice round 400,000 points two hours from finishing. No way to catch up. I hate those tokens. This will be my last All Stars, and no more leaderboards with multiplier tokens for me. In fact, probably no more Candy Crush for me. I'm just not as fast as those guys. I had kind of calculated that 510,000 would be the highest score humanly possible. I guess I was wrong.

Aww. Thanks for replying anyway and hope to see you in next year’s, when hopefully the tokens will have been consigned to the scrapheap