Yellow candies dropping prematurely?

I wouldn't worry too much about it @MannyFae . If it is something they've introduced deliberately it must be very rare, as apart from the one level 5682 I haven't been able to recreate it at all. On that particular level I saw it three times but struggle to recreate it now. That's why I was asking if anyone else has seen this. It's maybe just a glitch with this one level, which most players would never notice. Obviously if I see this again on any other level I'll take note.

If that is so then, as MannyFae mentioned, it would discourage players from spending gold bars to play on, wouldn't it? I don't understand the logic in that at all. Who would pay 10 gold for extra moves on a board that is full of yellow candies? Having said that, when it did happen to me on that third occasion, the game dropped yellow candies followed by a triple (!) colour bomb. Yes, it was three colour bombs, dropping one after the other down the same column. I wish I could have taken as screenshot, but if it's your last move the banner that dropped down hid it all.

Incidental finding while carrying out my purple candy collection experiment:

I caught the game's dirty dealing right in the act. This one was really foul.

Level 254 on my first attempt with Poppy, playing with starting boosters only (in real life I guess this would equate to a player with no super colour bomb and not playing starting boosters but approaching this level with their win streaks intact)

I failed and chose to play on with 10 gold bars. I had several striped candies ready for cascades and assumed that I would easily pass this level with this one off payment.

Then after two moves into the extra five I'd paid for the yellow candies started to drop!

Looking at that board now I wonder if there were just enough fishes here for me to pass on this final move and I may have made an error of judgement when I decided to play a party popper to pass this. But can we be sure at this point or would the game have left me one jelly short to force a second payment at the inflated price of 16 gold? It would surely depend on King's good will, if more fishes drop and if the first fish goes for the second fish and if it goes for the purple striped candy then maybe they might have let me pass here with the double stripe combo. I am sorry I played that party popper, as this way I'll never know and in fact 16 gold would have been cheaper as well. 😬

@MannyFae @ForumPyrolight What do you think of this?

Actually I've taken another look and now I think it's a definite fail: the first fish would have to go for both double jellies plus the second fish, leaving far too many jellies for the second fish. In order to pass I would have had to have several fishes dropping and eating each other. I do not see though how this can be an error, like you suggested in your other thread @ForumPyrolight . There was a definite way for me to win at the point when the first yellow candies dropped. I am pretty certain I only failed because the dropped. At most I might have needed a lollipop to help me, this looks like deliberate "match fixing" to me.