🌴🌞 Summer Nostalgia Season - Summer Games ⚽

Right, I'm done with trying to gain boosters now to stock up for Friday. My little experiment - to see if you can compete in these events without cheating - is definitely failing here. I've completed Season Pass, I've completed the halftime challenge and won every episode race, but hey, am I making a profit? No! There is no passing without boosters and not enough free boosters so I have to spend my gold to buy them and I AM making a loss at the moment.

I must be a really bad player, because I'm down to a paltry 133 gold bars after reaching level 546. King have won. There are some great and easy episodes I can win just on a win streak, but then along comes this rubbish:

So no chance in a million years, you need a starting board that lets you get the first key at the very least, and they won't let you play any starting boosters? Why??? I get the message this level doesn't affect my win streak, but actually it did because I was put back to win streak 1 at the end of it. Not that I care. The next level was just as bad, also no starting boosters allowed and fixed to make you lose on your first try. I don't have the patience for this rubbish. I just don't. I couldn't wait for the free pass on this one and I played a switch and lollipop hammer after about 20 tries when I saw it could be done with those. I guess the lucky board and free pass would eventually have come... Ah yes, and then you reach legendary level 540, think "I'd better play starting boosters," and then it's easy and I wasted those boosters! This game is one big hoax, even at these very modest levels. I wonder if Val gets better boards... I'll spend my time doing something else for a while now, thank you.

Sorry about the angry rant....

@cookiemae are you ready for the finals? I feel no dude to get top 3 and the 200 GB if they put me to compete in a group of 80-100 players.

Now if I have to compete against the entire “team” Misty to get the 200 GB…I’ll sit it out and root for my friends from here to get the prize.

When I used to play those levels first time round years ago, yes, there were even the sweet jars, those candies with a horizontal stripe in the middle to collect which spawned when there was a nice cascade. That was great and there were so many boosters to be collected with those just replaying your favourite old level. It used to be such fun. That is one reason why there are still players out there in the 14,000s who have gold and boosters saved up.

I do have the chocolate box, but it's one I cannot choose and it asks me to play a lollipop hammer to get the timed reward. I will probably play one eventually, but at the moment I don't have one left. King got to me yesterday and the game made me use my last and only hammer with their continuous blockage at a hard level. I could kick myself for not remembering an old trick I used before to speed up the appearance of lucky boards. It can't be a cheat, because after all, the game is random and not in any way fixed or predetermined 😉, so in theory it shouldn't even have worked. Well it did, I wonder why 🤔. I'm only getting my boosters the regular way, but I have to somehow keep my sanity if the game is getting too boring and frustrating to play.

To answer your question, at the beginning of Candy Crush I get three of each booster as a gift, except the Party Popper, here you get one. Then you get given 50 gold and after that it's the same events everyone else gets. And that means timed boosters, nothing to keep til later mostly. I think the only way to succeed in the game now is to win all the episode races and then use the gold to buy boosters, be remarkably patient and spend a ridiculous amount of time playing it, or cheat. Or spend lots of money, I forgot that one. Anyone reading this who has a better strategy, please post it here.

This game is really testing your patience if you play according to the game rules. It will drive player away to be sure.

Sorry we are using this thread for a private chat, but it's Halftime after all, and it does regard preparing for the final!

Well done for getting those party poppers, use them wisely. There definitely are levels where those will come in handy. But remember that 10 party poppers cost 219 gold to buy. So if you use 10 to win the prize of 200 gold you'll be making a net loss. But then it's about having fun playing, isn't it?

Yes we really miss those funny memes. I dont see that thread anymore. A lot are now inactive in the community. We surely miss a lot of them.