A strategy for playing that works well but requires watching lots of ads

Hi, @cwgames99 ! I'm glad to see it mostly works for you too. Honestly the gold bars just pile up over time if you do it long enough. Back during the All-Stars competition last year, I was down to about 1000 gold bars, since I spent so many there (and yet came in second in the next-to-last knockout round, so I didn't even make it to the final online round), and I was around level 7000-8000 then, so I have earned all those gold bars in just the past 9-10,000 levels or so. I try to spend very few gold bars. Probably half of the gold bars I spend are spent on things like paintbrush, UFO, and very occasionally party poppers - the ones you can't get by watching ads. The only time I spend gold bars on free switches and lollipop hammers are when I'm in a rush - mainly during tournaments. I'm currently getting 30 gold bars per chocolate box, so that's a big difference from you. But my chocolate box requires doing an average of about 20 new levels - what's yours? I remember at one time I had 10 gold bars per chocolate box, but that was averaging about 7 new levels required for the last order, so it really added up to almost as many gold bars in actuality. It seems like there's a huge variety in what is offered in the chocolate box; I apparently have always had pretty lucky ones. For episode wins, I get 30 gold bars, but then I can watch ads for more at the end of each episode race, and although it says it gives 1 gold bar for the first ad and 4 gold bars for the second one, I've noticed it actually seems to be giving 5 gold bars (instead of 1) for the first ad, and 10 gold bars (instead of 4) for the second ad. Seems like a bug to me, but I'm happy to take it! And yes, the Candy Royale can be huge. The last two times I've gotten Candy Royale, I got over 300 gold bars the first time, and over 200 the second time. So it has really been adding up for me; it seems like you may not be in as generous of a situation; I'm sorry for that.

Anyway, if you add up things, you can see my current gold bar earning rate:
30 gold bars per 20 levels or so for chocolate box
45 gold bars for each 15 levels for episode race
figure on about 100 gold bars on average per Candy Royale, which probably happens once every 100 levels or so

For each 1000 levels, that adds up to:
30 x 50 = 1500 gold bars for chocolate box
45 x 66 = 2970 gold bars for episode race
100 x 10 = 1000 gold bars for Candy Royale

So that adds up to over 5000 gold bars per 1000 levels. Of course, it is necessary to spend quite a few gold bars over that time as well. If you figure I have earned 30,000 gold bars over the past 9000 levels, that implies I needed to keep 3333 of the 5000 gold bars per 1000 levels in order to be where I am. So that still leaves the ability to spend 1667 gold bars per 1000 levels, which is realistically probably what I have been spending.

I'm wanting to see how high my gold bar total can be when I first get to the rainbow at the end of the current levels. I'm hoping to keep it above 30,000. It is definitely true that up in the higher levels where you and I are, it is harder to make extra gold bars. I have been stuck at about 31,000 gold bars for the past thousand levels or so, so I'm not sure it's possible to keep earning that rapidly at the level we are now. But it was certainly possible at the earlier levels.

Regarding your question about party poppers, I did manage to do well in one of the smaller tournaments late last year that offered party poppers for the winners. I didn't win my group - I came in second - but that did earn me 12 party poppers. And for a little while, there were really nice ways to earn them, especially Don't Feed the Troll back when it allowed older levels, so that allowed me to get a party popper every week. And when Top That first came out, they were actually giving out 8 party poppers for getting close to the top, and I won those 3 times, I think, during the first 3 weeks it was available. Then they cut the number way back so now it's not worth the effort anymore. 😥 But all of that certainly helped; I haven't bought party poppers in many thousands of levels now because of all of those. I'm afraid I'm getting close to running out now, though, so I probably will need to buy them soon. I'm down to just 5 now. I remember when I had close to 40.

@cwgames99 , I think I would recommend in your situation that you try to watch lots of ads for quite a few days just to build up your boosters. Try to get over 50, maybe even over 100, free switches and lollipop hammers to help you through, before you start moving forward again. Then hopefully they will offer you the supercharger (super color bombs) - do you get offered superchargers? When that happens, try to go through a bunch of episode races in a row - earn the super color bombs, and then over the next 24 hours (while the super color bombs are active), get through as many episode races as you can, being careful not to lose a level. If you have lots of free switches and lollipop hammers, and you are aggressive at getting good plays at the beginning of each level, you should be able to get through quite a few episode races without spending many gold bars (hopefully not any). That would allow you to build your gold bars back up high enough to do more normal play going forward from there. 150 gold bars isn't much to work with, so I think that would be the best strategy - try to get that number a bit higher so you have more to work with.

One other thing - I forgot to comment about your statement regarding ad watching glitches on extra moves at the end. I totally agree with your assessment there, which is why I try to avoid using extra moves at the end of a level as much as possible. I think you have the right idea there. It's quite risky to go for extra moves because of the ad glitches, and it's really costly to lose a win streak with this strategy.