Level 3178 mechanics: Don't play boosters! (and other stats)

christinewupp

I had the pleasure to start level 3178 in my latest account today. This level is rated "hard". I was on my top win streak and saw I had two side by side colour bombs on my starting board and they self destructed in front of my eyes! I have not experienced this before. Since then I have extensively played and replayed this level as it has the easiest mechanics of any level I have ever come across. It is a perfect level for testing out certain theories…

This is the level. 10 moves only. The candies drop down onto the starting board, which is weird and unusual. There is a colour bomb and a wrapped green candy, also weird and unusual.

There are only two outcomes to this level: If the colour bomb sits next to the wrap you will definitely pass. If they do not sit next to one another you will definitely fail.

So simple, such a beauty. @Pyrolight Have you come across this one yet in any of your games? This is definitely one to test out certain theories on!

MannyFae

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3126270#Comment_3126270

Wow, thanks. 100 attempts is a large enough number to draw conclusions. I've always noticed that if a color bomb is created not directly by making a match, but by a candy falling into place (i.e. cascades), a color bomb can be created in any of the five spaces. I don't know if the probability is supposed to be 20% for either space on other levels. For this particular level it's clearly not. It's not necessarily intentional manipulation, it's possible that the spawning probabilities are just set to specific numbers (hypothesis: it is 20/15/30/15/20 for spaces 1-5).

I believe that the probability of wrapped candy placement is also skewed. I'm not sure if the wrapped candy can be formed in 1st and 2nd row (I didn't notice this happening), but even if yes, for random placement, the probability of it forming in the middle column would be 60%. A color bomb and a wrapped candy start forming at the same time, but it hardly matters.

It would be interesting to work out if the color bomb placement algorithm is the same for all levels, or different. There are more levels like this one, but unfortunately they are more complex than this one so not good for testing.

The pass-rate was 50%.

'Flip a coin' level, literally 😄

MannyFae

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3126270#Comment_3126270

Wow, thanks. 100 attempts is a large enough number to draw conclusions. I've always noticed that if a color bomb is created not directly by making a match, but by a candy falling into place (i.e. cascades), a color bomb can be created in any of the five spaces. I don't know if the probability is supposed to be 20% for either space on other levels. For this particular level it's clearly not. It's not necessarily intentional manipulation, it's possible that the spawning probabilities are just set to specific numbers (hypothesis: it is 20/15/30/15/20 for spaces 1-5).

I believe that the probability of wrapped candy placement is also skewed. I'm not sure if the wrapped candy can be formed in 1st and 2nd row (I didn't notice this happening), but even if yes, for random placement, the probability of it forming in the middle column would be 60%. A color bomb and a wrapped candy start forming at the same time, but it hardly matters.

It would be interesting to work out if the color bomb placement algorithm is the same for all levels, or different. There are more levels like this one, but unfortunately they are more complex than this one so not good for testing.

The pass-rate was 50%.

'Flip a coin' level, literally 😄