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Download the app from wherever you get apps: App store for Apple, Google Playstore etc. Press Play. That is all you need to do. The game saves automatically and you will always get back to where you were after closing and reopening the app.

The first 50 levels are tutorials. On each level pay attention to the moves the game suggests to you: They are the best moves to make and will show you how to create special candies and combos of special candies and how the jelly fish often come to finish off the level for you. From level 51 onwards the game gets harder, meaning the jelly fish don't always help finish every level and some levels won't be possible to pass on a first attempt. Read my tips linked below in the post by Mountain Mom.

I got another new version this week with 17 moves. I mostly got 15 move versions in the weeks before.

It turned out the two extra moves didn't make the level easier, as the algorithms for the first few attempts were new and still designed to fail. This new game has the new whooshy jelly fish and a lot of the algorithms are unfamiliar to me: Far fewer wrap+ stripe or any combos. I find myself pushing candies around aimlessly until a shoal of fish appear to do their job. I think they are (still/again) using new starters as guinea pigs. It's quite unsettling. @PyroFunk

The biggest change to me has been changing the Express so that you can't win 20 minutes of lives anymore. That use to be the centerpiece of my strategy and it worked well for me as I accumulated over 2k gold bars once I got the hang of it. Now that's gone and it doesn't look like it's coming back.

As a result, I decided to stop being so competitive and just play the game win or lose, without spending money. To my surprise, have enjoyed it just as much although I don't progress as I used to and I have a lot more money in the bank. If King's intent by removing this feature was to encourage more spending, well it did quite the opposite for me.

My only other thought, and it seems to be in contradiction with some of the other comments, is that overall the games seem easier. Finding about half the games in a race just not that hard, and the others more difficult but winnable even without using gold bars to buy extra moves. And again to my surprise miss the earlier days when some of the games were so weird and hard to win.

Hello @stephanie2024, If you are no longer enjoying the game stop playing. Find another game that you can enjoy. We all know by now King is in the money making business they do not care about people enjoying the game they only want people spending money on the game especially if people have become addicted to it.