Here is my new test:
I just started another new game. (Can't help myself, I'm getting bored with the game again). I would like to test out the theory that you can play the game completely for free if you:
- Play from the beginning and spend no gold until after level 205
- Spend gold and boosters wisely after that
- Play at least one episode per day to win every champions race
- Play no more than one new episode per day if there are several legendary levels per episode*
- Use older levels to help earn boosters and gold where events allow to win best available rewards
- Follow these rules:
- Make the first move the game suggests **
- Make any move visible that will allow me to match 4 or 5 candies to create a colour bomb, wrap or stripe
- Make any possible combo of special candies visible on the board
- If neither of the above is possible choose the move that will remove the most blockers
- If no move achieving the above is possible, make the move the game suggests
- When I get to about 5-10 remaining moves, depending on level, I start to make judgements on further moves depending on experience: By this time I usually can see if I will pass or fail and if I will have to use boosters to pass. I then stop following the above rules and make my own judgements. I will never use more than 10 gold bars for extra moves
*Level/episode difficulty gets adjusted frequently, so the one episode per day limit may not apply if the game is being made particularly easy, which depends on the day of the week and if there is a leaderboard competition coming up - I might play more episodes if I find I continue to make a good gold profit
**Unless there is an obvious better move, which is only really the case if there is a 2 colour bomb combo
