Is ANYTHING still random in Candy Crush???

Will follow this up later. Have lost the will to play the game now as the troll has been changed. Too many changes with this latest update for my tastes.

Having gone through the data from four games I definitely think that the distribution of players on the qualifier leaderboards is not random.

If anyone remembers, during the Music Tournament I was wondering where all the top range players were? We never found out, but they must have been somewhere…..

Well, this time, my relatively new test game is playing against four players on levels above 16,000, including one player who is at level 17,043 and passed a whopping 718 levels in the past seven days! I had passed 330 levels, so I gather the computers that assign us to groups must have maybe put me in a group with other "suspicious" players. The only low level player is someone at level 389 who had passed 329 levels in the past seven days. No way is this random. The average levels played in the last seven days is 229 for this group!

My oldest game is at the top of the map, where I had played no levels in the past seven days until today. The opposition here is much more "normal" with players from all level ranges with an average of 68 levels played during the last seven days.

The other two games are somewhere in between these two extremes. It looks to me that King are manipulating the qualifier groups in a similar way to how they group players in the weekly contest.

Verdict:

Nothing is random in Candy Crush Saga.

Hello @mohieezy and the warmest of welcomes to the community!!! I mean this as I honestly hope you will hang around and join us in some of the other threads. Everything you write here is what I have experienced in my games. I have been trying to analyse Candy Crush for almost two years now. King change the game so often, but I have recently found the algorithms more and more obvious as the game has evolved from what seems to be a levels based game to an event based game. By this I mean that King use events now to control our playing experience (and how much we spend) on an individual basis. They have in the past called this game a "bespoke" experience. In that way it has changed massively in the past two years. Do check out some of my other threads if you like, it would be great to see you around here again. To check my other posts click on my name to see my profile, which is as always public. Your insights are very valuable and some of them I did not know about, such as the super charger. Do you play just one game or several game like I do? What level are you at?

The new version of the Weekly Contest is definitely NOT random in any way. Not that it ever was, but it quite obviously now tracks very closely with what we achieved the previous week. This can be seen by checking the player cards: All other players are very closely matched to myself. These are my data as of the start of the Monday morning reset:

Game 1: Myself 452 levels passed last seven days

Opponents levels passed in the previous seven days: 350,344,381,294,525, 221,248

Game 2: Myself 90 levels passed last seven days

Opponents: 115,116,117,93,91,83,67 levels passed in last seven days

Game 3: Myself 45

Opponents: 58, 53, 51, 35, 42, 37, 41

The redesign is probably to match us with similar players but since these are real players and the event is live there will still be some reports of cheaters and unfairness as players do not necessarily play the same speed from week to week. But overall I would say this is an improvement.

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