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These events are pre-set to make you fail unless you play really quickly. Essentially, at the higher levels you have to play the entire episode in one or two sittings to win the episode race. The Episode race and also Candy Royale are events in which the King computers choose a selection of players who played the levels previously for you to compete against. Therefore it can easily be manipulated to make players fail. These are sort of fake events. The only events you really compete against others are the live events (Sam's Streak, Summer Cup etc).
You have got a head start there being a programmer. It takes me longer to figure it all out, but absolutely, this game is becoming more and more rigged and more obviously so. It's become predictable and obvious. As I have written elsewhere, I'm not sure you can really call it a game any more. It's just play the algorithm through that's been set. It's boring, it's frustrating, and I do hope someone at King reads this.
It definitely is playing algorithms, you can try keep a count of how many times you play a hard level and then harder levels and so forth..there's a certain number of times you'll lose then it let's you win but the more times you try,the more times the ads show up n suggestions to buy shows up..
All I can say is don't pay for anything, I sure won't..
There are even bots in the community chats as well and fake player bots too that give u free lives.