Welcome to the Candy Crush Saga Community
Do you have a question or need help with your game? Ask the Community.
I don't believe this is a bug as much as an intentional move by King to keep players "stuck" until you have time to develop more levels and to entice players to start spending actual money to play. Your tactics won't work since only the dumb pay money at lower levels; once you arrive at this level, we're not as easily duped.