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My latest test on the best strategy to play Candy Crush

Finally I have come to a good place to run what might be the ultimate "controlled" experiment!

I just happen to have reached level 650 in both my latest unsaved "test only" games and as they so far have played exactly the same strategy they are almost equally rich in gold bars and in a great position to carry on playing without paying or growing insane. Let me introduce my two games in the next post.

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Giving up on this test now as the Tiffy game has the most boring newly rewritten levels imaginable. Can't be bothered to play any more. Every level is the same at this range. It's more fun playing level 17,900. (At least we have the frog pop up there once in a while. ) The fun factor has long been lost now. Boring, boring, boring.

Here is an update on my progress.

Just a reminder of the strategies, now that I have played my two characters:

ChristineTiffy plays as many episodes as she likes, so long as the fun factor is not lost (I am only human after all), buys boosters when needed. So far these have been timed starting boosters, because the game does not give us enough of these for free if we play more than one episode per day. Tiffy play 10 gold bars + boosters as required to pass levels on the first try. So far this has been effective and fun, but then it's been Monday and Tuesday, which by general consensus appear to often be easier days to play. Tiffy is on tier 20 (50 gold bar prize) on Top That.

Progress so far:

As the players have diverged, so have their levels of course, but I will update on Cow when she reaches level 800, to compare.

ChristineCow plays a similar strategy except:

Plays only one or two episodes per day.

Does not buy boosters but only uses those that the game will give her. If she has no starting boosters will have to hope to pass legendary levels with 10 gold or replay until the game will allow this.

Both players have only similar events. Candy Royale for example both are on the tier of the 700 gold bar version showing up every few days. In fact both players won 78 gold bars, only offset by 24 hours!

Cow is at tier 16 of Top That.

Colleen Companion Welsh

@christinewupp I should have also included the Gold Box for the Gold Bar inventory that I have collected to date. I play on two devices and as I mentioned before the Gold Bars on Windows is set at 45 with 30 on my Android device. If I don't pass a level on my Android I can usually pass on the Windows 11. My goal was to reach my previous level of 16400 when I created my new account with some gold to continue playing those difficult levels. Have a great day 😊

November 19, 2024 - 07:45 AM NST

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3200138#Comment_3200138

Hopefully the sun appears before winter sets in but this is when I start baking to pass the time. My neighbors love being my official taste testers.

At least we don't need to shovel rain.

Have a great day 🙂

November 18, 2024 - 07:35 PM NST

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199975#Comment_3199975

It's raining here in England too, @Colleen Companion Welsh. I guess that's why I'm playing this much right now. The garden is ready for winter and there is nothing much else to do.

By the way, I'm quite glad King seem to have stopped pitting us against players on our friends lists in the Weekly Race this week. Last week I was racing against you….not a chance! 😅

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199895#Comment_3199895

You are right. It's definitely not worth spending more than 10 gold bars ever to keep a win streak or the super colour bomb. Win streak boosters can be quite powerful, but if you lose your win streak you can earn it back soon enough. The super colour bomb is not as helpful as it seems. It helps us pass levels more quickly, but what is the point passing a level with 20 spare moves instead of 3?

So this little experiment was short lived!

ChristineTiffy was on a roll having a fun time passing levels easily and hanging onto her win streak and the super colour bomb. And then just now came the ……..

Shock, Horror ……..OOPS!

🤬😵😩🙀

Well, we'll have to take this as it is, quite possibly as intended by King: Powerful boosters taking up the place of other candies on the opening board quite possibly a glitch left deliberately in the game to stop players from getting too far too quickly. Lesson learned. Never trust the game.

Not the end to my test of course, we'll carry on playing. Alas, without the super colour bomb.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199849#Comment_3199849

I can totally relate to all the strategies you identified with ChristineTiffy. These Gold Bars have been received from winning Episode Races and occasionally when I get lucky on the Top That Event. It's been raining here in NL since September so my daily episodes may be slightly increased 😊

November 18, 2024 - 01:00 PM NST

Thanks for tour tests. My expérience with the super bomb is that it's made for spent a lot of golf bar. One time, i failed a level with the super bomb and juste after i looser it i success the level easily with no boosters and no gold bar. Now, i stopped to spent more than 10 gold bars to keep this bomb.

And here is ChristineTiffy, the brazen and bold one who will try to keep hold of her win streak and play more than two episodes, trying to get as high as possible in the events like Top That and the leaderboard competition starting at the weekend

This will be her strategy:

buy boosters with gold, as required to use strategically and sensibly
use gold and boosters to pass every level to keep win streak and associated benefits
play starting boosters for all levels marked "super hard" , "nightmarishly hard" or "legendary" and play whatever boosters + gold required to pass on first attempt

ChristineTiffy is starting the new episode with the super colour bomb enabled, so I wonder if this will give her an advantage…?

I will keep posting my updates as and when.

Hope to have fun!

ChristineCow will be the cautious player who will continue to play just one or two episodes per day using the following strategy:

buy no boosters and play only the boosters available from events
unmarked and "hard" levels: will not spend gold or boosters but replay if failed until a lucky board comes up
levels marked "super hard" "nightmarishly hard" or "legendary" will use starting boosters as available from events
"legendary" and "nightmarishly hard" levels will use in level boosters sparingly as available and/or pay 10 gold bars to pass level either on first attempt or after failing and replaying several times

Standing in latest events at the start of the episode:

ChristineCow had the super colour bomb but failed a level, so has lost it. She is currently on win streak 6 at the start of the next episode.

Meet the two players:

Both started the games the last week of October and played between one to two episodes per day. No tricks used, just playing entirely as intended by the game.

Both playing iPads.

Both have enough friends now to play the extra 20 lives per day from friends. Both have Top That this week and the Warcraft Warm-up, and earn 40 gold bars per champions race. Both have just over 1500 gold bars to their accounts.

I think now is a perfect time to diverge the two games by choosing differing playing strategies.

Comments

Giving up on this test now as the Tiffy game has the most boring newly rewritten levels imaginable. Can't be bothered to play any more. Every level is the same at this range. It's more fun playing level 17,900. (At least we have the frog pop up there once in a while. ) The fun factor has long been lost now. Boring, boring, boring.

Here is an update on my progress.

Just a reminder of the strategies, now that I have played my two characters:

ChristineTiffy plays as many episodes as she likes, so long as the fun factor is not lost (I am only human after all), buys boosters when needed. So far these have been timed starting boosters, because the game does not give us enough of these for free if we play more than one episode per day. Tiffy play 10 gold bars + boosters as required to pass levels on the first try. So far this has been effective and fun, but then it's been Monday and Tuesday, which by general consensus appear to often be easier days to play. Tiffy is on tier 20 (50 gold bar prize) on Top That.

Progress so far:

As the players have diverged, so have their levels of course, but I will update on Cow when she reaches level 800, to compare.

ChristineCow plays a similar strategy except:

Plays only one or two episodes per day.

Does not buy boosters but only uses those that the game will give her. If she has no starting boosters will have to hope to pass legendary levels with 10 gold or replay until the game will allow this.

Both players have only similar events. Candy Royale for example both are on the tier of the 700 gold bar version showing up every few days. In fact both players won 78 gold bars, only offset by 24 hours!

Cow is at tier 16 of Top That.

Colleen Companion Welsh

@christinewupp I should have also included the Gold Box for the Gold Bar inventory that I have collected to date. I play on two devices and as I mentioned before the Gold Bars on Windows is set at 45 with 30 on my Android device. If I don't pass a level on my Android I can usually pass on the Windows 11. My goal was to reach my previous level of 16400 when I created my new account with some gold to continue playing those difficult levels. Have a great day 😊

November 19, 2024 - 07:45 AM NST

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3200138#Comment_3200138

Hopefully the sun appears before winter sets in but this is when I start baking to pass the time. My neighbors love being my official taste testers.

At least we don't need to shovel rain.

Have a great day 🙂

November 18, 2024 - 07:35 PM NST

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199975#Comment_3199975

It's raining here in England too, @Colleen Companion Welsh. I guess that's why I'm playing this much right now. The garden is ready for winter and there is nothing much else to do.

By the way, I'm quite glad King seem to have stopped pitting us against players on our friends lists in the Weekly Race this week. Last week I was racing against you….not a chance! 😅

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199895#Comment_3199895

You are right. It's definitely not worth spending more than 10 gold bars ever to keep a win streak or the super colour bomb. Win streak boosters can be quite powerful, but if you lose your win streak you can earn it back soon enough. The super colour bomb is not as helpful as it seems. It helps us pass levels more quickly, but what is the point passing a level with 20 spare moves instead of 3?

So this little experiment was short lived!

ChristineTiffy was on a roll having a fun time passing levels easily and hanging onto her win streak and the super colour bomb. And then just now came the ……..

Shock, Horror ……..OOPS!

🤬😵😩🙀

Well, we'll have to take this as it is, quite possibly as intended by King: Powerful boosters taking up the place of other candies on the opening board quite possibly a glitch left deliberately in the game to stop players from getting too far too quickly. Lesson learned. Never trust the game.

Not the end to my test of course, we'll carry on playing. Alas, without the super colour bomb.

Colleen Companion Welsh

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3199849#Comment_3199849

I can totally relate to all the strategies you identified with ChristineTiffy. These Gold Bars have been received from winning Episode Races and occasionally when I get lucky on the Top That Event. It's been raining here in NL since September so my daily episodes may be slightly increased 😊

November 18, 2024 - 01:00 PM NST

Thanks for tour tests. My expérience with the super bomb is that it's made for spent a lot of golf bar. One time, i failed a level with the super bomb and juste after i looser it i success the level easily with no boosters and no gold bar. Now, i stopped to spent more than 10 gold bars to keep this bomb.

And here is ChristineTiffy, the brazen and bold one who will try to keep hold of her win streak and play more than two episodes, trying to get as high as possible in the events like Top That and the leaderboard competition starting at the weekend

This will be her strategy:

buy boosters with gold, as required to use strategically and sensibly
use gold and boosters to pass every level to keep win streak and associated benefits
play starting boosters for all levels marked "super hard" , "nightmarishly hard" or "legendary" and play whatever boosters + gold required to pass on first attempt

ChristineTiffy is starting the new episode with the super colour bomb enabled, so I wonder if this will give her an advantage…?

I will keep posting my updates as and when.

Hope to have fun!

ChristineCow will be the cautious player who will continue to play just one or two episodes per day using the following strategy:

buy no boosters and play only the boosters available from events
unmarked and "hard" levels: will not spend gold or boosters but replay if failed until a lucky board comes up
levels marked "super hard" "nightmarishly hard" or "legendary" will use starting boosters as available from events
"legendary" and "nightmarishly hard" levels will use in level boosters sparingly as available and/or pay 10 gold bars to pass level either on first attempt or after failing and replaying several times

Standing in latest events at the start of the episode:

ChristineCow had the super colour bomb but failed a level, so has lost it. She is currently on win streak 6 at the start of the next episode.

Meet the two players:

Both started the games the last week of October and played between one to two episodes per day. No tricks used, just playing entirely as intended by the game.

Both playing iPads.

Both have enough friends now to play the extra 20 lives per day from friends. Both have Top That this week and the Warcraft Warm-up, and earn 40 gold bars per champions race. Both have just over 1500 gold bars to their accounts.

I think now is a perfect time to diverge the two games by choosing differing playing strategies.

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