Welcome to the Candy Crush Saga Community
Do you have a question or need help with your game? Ask the Community.
Hello, welcome to the community, and also good-bye and farewell, @benladd1 . ?
I guess as you just answered your own question you will be leaving this community. If not, feel welcome to hang around and read some of our posts. I regularly post plenty of information on how the game is rigged, and also on how it can be beaten. It can be played without spending money, but you would need to start from scratch as a new player. Old players at the top of the map with no gold left certainly struggle to keep going and won't get any ads to help them the moment they spend any real money.