Stuck at level 260

jc901288

Stuck at level 260

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/511583/stuck-at-level-260

It so happens that this morning I have just approached this level as a new starter. I had the super charger enabled, plus starting boosters from the DailyTreat Machine, plus the first win chest boosters from the weekly contest.

This level is designed to cost gold bars, and probably lots of them, to anyone who wants to pass this on their first attempt. So beware if you approach this level with the super charger.

Here my opening board:

There are three good move choices here: wrap plus stripe, super charger plus green stripe, super charger plus blue stripe. I doubt it matters which one to go for as the board is set up to fail. I play the best available moves but there really are no chances to create special candies and certainly not to create any combos that would break through these blocker layers. I eventually get another wrap + stripe combo here, which often is a good sign:

This colour bomb + wrap also looks promising:

But the game is just set to "fail", it is too obvious. With so many blockers in so many layers you really would need a double colour bomb combo early on to beat this one I think. But look again at the opening board above: Those colour bombs were miles apart. And there are only two of them, because I was on the top win streak that gives me only one colour bomb.

Save the timed boosters for later, this one's a pay to pass level:

Pay:

And try to pass:

It looks really bad still, but I still have that timed striped brush that I did not waste earlier, so this is a good chance to play it to make a wrap+stripe combo:

I don't actually think that - even with all the starting boosters, super charger and whatnot- the game would have allowed me to pass with just the one set of extra moves here. This level is vicious! But the combo I created is enough:

I create a fish here which I did not screenshot, knowing that if it doesn't help I still have that lollipop, but the fish did pass immediately without needing the lolly or that final move.

Anyone without tons of boosters I would recommend to replay this level without boosters until the game offers you 25 or 35 extra moves for 10 gold bars.

Due to my timed boosters my super charger lives on to see another day.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/511583/stuck-at-level-260

My advice if you are out of gold by level 260 is to delete the app, reinstall the app and then follow my advice here (start at page 1):

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/510797/tips-for-new-starters-how-to-play-candy-crush-from-the-beginning