Levels after 10000 are paywalled?

Of course, yes.

I'm not sure it starts at exactly level 10,000, but yes, in the ranges above this level the boards get harder and harder, a lot of levels can no longer be passed without boosters at all and there are more and more boards just full of blockers and impossible. King stop giving out lucky boards to players you are stuck forever, so it's pay or quit. It all goes downhill from here on until level 15,000......

Yes, Lucky boards still exist and some are really, really obvious. But I think what King have done recently is to have some levels, the nightmarishly hard or legendary levels, where no matter how often you play the level you will never get a lucky board to help you pass, so you will have to at least pay 10 gold or use a lollipop hammer to pass the level. Until about a year ago whenever I played any level, even in the 14,000 range, if I played a level often enough, eventually the game would let me pass.

I just answered a query about level 1823, and that seems to be "pay-walled" at the moment, too! It's not just the levels above 10,000. It took me 47 tries to beat level 1823, and that was with starting boosters. I doubt it can be done without boosters this weekend. Anyone want to prove me wrong, I'd love to hear from you. Do we all get the same boards? I got very close on my second attempt and then nowhere near close after that.

I have been playing level 14707 for 5 days and without using gold bars it is proving impossible to pass. Soooo frustrated