Remember All Stars 2023 when some in the community were asking this very question: How many purple candies is it possible to make? The Pot of Gold event has given me the perfect opportunity to test this out for my game today.
So I decided to only play new levels to get my 13,000 purple candies. One game from level 561 to 710 on my latest login, the other at levels 5046-5162 on a different login. I set my stopwatch to see how long it would take me on each game to get to 13,000 purple. Here is the strangest finding:
It took me exactly 2 hours and 36 minutes on EACH of those two very different games. Exactly the same time....Now that might be a coincidence. Surely, it must be?
In the 500-700 range I played more levels, the yield per level was mostly 100-150 purple. In the 5000+ levels I played fewer levels, but some took longer to pass and I was able to make more than 200 on many levels, very few over 300, some had no purple at all though. But yes, regardless of the level range, level difficulty or if I was just rushing through the level or trying to play to draw the level out to make more purple, the result was pretty constant: 83 purple per minute on average.
As much as I tried, I was unable to make 400 or more purple on any single level at all! King must have put a stop to that: All the good cascade levels have changed to different colours, and for those that remain you invariably get such a lucky board that it self completes with 25 or even 35 moves left on the board! I did not find a single level that would not self destruct once it started cascading and I found no way to stop it from doing that. I can see why King have put a stop to the cascades, but it is sad none the less as it takes the fun out of the game for all of us.
