I've just played episode 156-170 as a new player and feel I just need to share this experience!
It's been an entire episode of lucky boards. It shows beautifully what we have been saying all along:
You will pass when the game wants you to pass: In this episode it was every single level on a new players' first attempt without boosters. The game knows we have win streak boosters, so it takes this into account. The unmarked levels I passed with 10 or more spare moves. The levels marked as hard/super hard/nightmarishly hard I passed with 2 or 3 moves left.
I used my usual strategy:
- Make the first move the game suggests
- Make ANY match that will create a colour bomb, striped or wrapped candy
- Create and strike any visible combo of special candies (don't bother to plan more than one move ahead for this)
- If there is no such chance make the best move to remove as many blockers as possible
- With 5-8 moves remaining be more careful and plan ahead of how you might be able to pass
This strategy worked beautifully in this episode and it was clear early on I had lucky boards.
I think it also demonstrates beautifully how the same boards and levels are changed from week to week, one episode at a time and each episode is an entity. I remember many of these levels have held me up in the past, so it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt how King adjust level difficulty by the way they introduce and withdraw Lucky Boards.
