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New feature: Sweet Choice..... What????

Update Feb 2026:

This feature is very basic: It picks levels apparently at random and gives levels a harder label by removing a few moves. If you pick the harder version you gain some timed rewards after passing, even if you retry the level several times. Removing moves makes some levels slightly harder to pass, but other levels are just as not affected by this at all because for many levels the number of moves does not actually affect your chance to pass. So choosing the harder version may give you a level just as hard/easy as choosing the easier version.

This popped up in my new account today, shortly after reaching level 200. This is the weirdest and maddest thing I have come across yet: We can choose if we want to play the "harder" version of the coming level:

Naturally being inquisitive I had to try this out. Especially since I currently have two accounts both sitting at the same level. Account 1 did not see this feature, so played the normal version (rated super hard) of level 207, account 2 chose the legendary version. I just had to see if they would be different!

The two starting boards looked pretty much identical:

Both started with the fish and super charger combo. But the legendary version has fewer moves! And well, I failed:

Unfortunately to retain the super charger I had to not only pay 10 gold for extra moves but also play a UFO. Serves me right for being so nosy.

The other version passed easily:

Well I won't be doing that again! And nor will anyone else who has their head screwed on the right way, I should think. Whatever are they thinking with this stupid feature???

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First impressions can be misleading sometimes. I'm always willing to be swayed when given the evidence.

Well I won't be doing that again! And nor will anyone else who has their head screwed on the right way, I should think. Whatever are they thinking with this stupid feature???

Therefore if you have enough lives to replay the level before deciding to pay gold you might as well go for the harder version and take the reward with you. Timed boosters stack up, so this can be quite useful.

Glad you have changed your mind after passing a week😜

Many features are useful to players depending on how to use them

This morning's example is just wild! It makes me doubt that this so-called AI has any "I" at all.

How can it think this easy level can be made "legendary" by the removal of a few moves? This is one of the easiest levels in the game. I know it well and have never failed it. It starts off with boosters locked so every player sees the same opening board.

It normally has 18 moves, and I always pass it with several moves to spare. This "legendary" version I actually followed the hinted moves, just to check if there was a hard or legendary version at all. There wasn't:

I thought maybe at the 5 moves left mark the game was going to trick me by not leaving the colour bombs next to the correct colour candies. But this game is simply not intelligent enough to do that now ( a human programmer could have done it I am sure) . So I continued with the hints here and won easily. The game even gave me a colour bomb + fish combo to finish it off with 4 spare moves!

This proves that this whole feature and the AI that designs it is…..

stupid.

@christinewupp I chose the harder level and claimed these rewards.

I am kind of warming up to this feature now.

I have found that often there is no practical difference in difficulty between the "super hard" and the "legendary" version.

The number of moves seems to not matter because the first three moves and the last five moves decide the outcome of each level, so how long the middle portion of a level is does not really seem to affect outcome in most cases.

Often both versions require the use of gold bars to pass on a first attempt. Therefore if you have enough lives to replay the level before deciding to pay gold you might as well go for the harder version and take the reward with you. Timed boosters stack up, so this can be quite useful.

Which one did you choose?

@christinewupp It was the first time seeing this in my game today.

CandyCrusher_321

I was playing the game couple days ago and I saw it for the first time. I thought it was interesting that you choose either a easy or hard level

Today I got a chance to test out this new feature on my own game, yippee!

Level 456 rated super hard:

This one is a great example of a human written board for which an old fashioned lucky board algorithms still exists. Only how to find it?

Well, it so happens the first attempt when scrolling back just now to obtain this screenshot delivered just that, with no boosters played:

The wrap/stripe combo here is a winning move.

So I played this level on two new accounts:

iPhone was playing the normal super hard version with 20 moves.

iPad was given the choice and picked the "legendary" version with 18 moves.

I set off to try find out what the difference would be. Here are the results:

1st attempt for super hard iPhone: I had a double colour bomb on the opening board, so I think I would have passed. I chose NOT to strike the combo for the sake of research. I wanted to see if this level would be possible to pass without boosters. I played a different first move and had a near miss.

1st attempt for the legendary iPad: I had two colour bombs on the board but no combo and achieved a near miss.

I played the subsequent attempts without boosters, making what I thought was the best possible move until the game offered me +255 extra moves. No luck either game. This level was impossible to pass without boosters for both games after the first attempt!

I then tried the level with boosters, first only the colour bomb: no luck either game.

I then tried colour bomb + stripe/wrap: The super hard version passed. The legendary version failed.

I then added the jelly fish, playing all three starting boosters and the legendary level had a lucky board, lots of fish coming out of nowhere and passed with 5 moves to spare.

Lessons learned:

The first attempt boards are definitely a separate entity for all players. I think this is a new change that has come in this year. The account that was scrolling back to play level 456 made another five attempts without boosters which failed. I therefore think the "first attempt" being easier is a real feature and probably applies to all of us.

The difference between super hard and legendary in this instance is probably where the two colour bombs are placed on our opening boards on this first attempt.

The super hard version was passable with the first two starting boosters.

The legendary version was only passable with all three starting boosters.

Super hard or legendary, this level is impossible to win without boosters for new players who replay again and again. Which is rather sad, so early on in the game. But it is what it is.

I love this feature because it gives away such a great deal of info about how the game works! These algorithms are getting easier to read week by week. I'll crack 'em and if it's the last thing I do in this community.

I removed the skull first; always try to do that. After that, I played a popper. By then, the upper order lock had been opened, and the bottom one opened after the popper was played. Then I played a UFO to break up the bottom row. Passed with some moves left on the first attempt. I'm feeling adventurous today 🙂

That's mad to pass in 18 or 21 moves. Did you pass it on your first attempt? Was the one party popper and UFO enough? If so when did you play it? With the sour skulls it's difficult to know quite when.

My mid-range account doesn't have this feature, but it suddenly popped up in my main game.

I just opened the Daily Stamps chest, so I accepted; wouldn't do it otherwise. The level had 18 moves (21 with the Candy Necklace bonus) compared to 23 according to the Candy Crush Saga Wiki.

Are they serious about introducing this at this level range? More difficult levels are what we dream about, of course 🤣

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3471766#Comment_3471766

Thank you for the screenshot. I have taken another more detailed look at this level now.

I played today with the colour bomb booster and passed on my first attempt. So if you assume players have a timed colour bomb at this point then the level should probably correctly be labelled as "hard".

I went on to try the level with no boosters. Luckily my daily treat machine gave me indefinite lives, ideal for this kind of testing!

I failed for 14 attempts. On my 15th attempt I passed: A colour bomb dropped with 14 moves remaining, I created a CB + stripe combo with my next move and interestingly I passed with 5 moves remaining. This means that your 18 moves version would have been just enough to pass at exactly the same time as my 23 move version passed. So moves do not really come into it if playing without boosters. Whether 15 attempts would classify this level as "legendary" I cannot say though: I played level 995 for over 100 attempts yesterday with no pass.

As always in my tests I followed the hints, which in this computer written level showed the best available move in almost every instant.

Thank you! This does suggest that what they have done is removed three moves to all these levels to change their rating. In my experience removing moves does not alter the difficulty of every level though. The decision if we pass or fail, in my books, is about the ability to clear enough of the board in the first three moves and about the luck we then get, especially in the last five moves. 15 moves is enough to clear this board if the game gives us some luck and 18 is still not enough without luck. I will now have a bash at level 3816. 😁

シリンダーノット

Legendary version:

The color bomb is from a timed booster. Same board, but only 18 moves, and feels somewhere around low Legendary

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3471152#Comment_3471152

Again I tried this level in my own game. I had a timed colour bomb from the Daily Treat Machine, as usual. It is unmarked in my game.

Does yours look the same as mine?

These are the outcomes of the first five attempts:

I'd say maybe this would class as "hard" in my estimation. Maybe they are using this feature to test out how players react to labels per se. Unfortunately it's no longer showing up in my game. They must be onto me, that I'm testing out the both versions….

Plot twist: I've just tried the same level on one other account. I played entirely without boosters and had exactly the same outcome: 1st near miss, 2-3rd bad fails, 4th easy pass.

CandyCrusher_321

I haven't seen any when I play the game

シリンダーノット

After completing an episode today, the next level is unmarked by default but can be upgraded straight to Legendary. That's four difficulty tiers! There doesn't seem to be anything mandating that choices have two difficulty tiers of separation. Now I have yet to see three tiers of separation.

The rewards for the higher difficulty are once again 15 minutes of color bombs, 10 minutes of infinite lives, and 15 minutes of coconut wheels.

P.S. The episode that I beat today did not have any Sweet Choice levels.

シリンダーノット

Super Hard version: identical board, 15 moves

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3470661#Comment_3470661

Interestingly in my game, when scrolling back to this level, although on the map this level is displayed as "normal", when I play it I find that it plays as a super hard level: I was unable to pass it with starting boosters on five attempts and am usually left one or two moves short. So I must also be playing the "super hard" version:

I like that offer. I am not surprised you accepted it. Timed lives plus timed boosters would be very helpful for filling the chocolate boxes very quickly, for example. It is really interesting to see this offer has found its way into other level ranges, as I only saw it in my newbie account. If you see this again could you note down how many moves you get for the harder version? I am still wondering what makes a level a "super hard" level. The boards look identical?

I don't like to send my link in this community any more. I am concerned that there may be unwelcome others who might infiltrate my game if I post it here.

I do not open my game every day and am contemplating stopping to play Candy Crush in the near future, so I do not wish to add more friends to my game at this point.

Didn’t mean to post twice.

@christinewupp Can you send me your friend link. I know you accepted mine.

@christinewupp Can you send me your friend link? I know you accepted mine.

シリンダーノット

As of today, I now have this feature. Normal levels can be upgraded to Super Hard.

I accepted the offer.

I don't have it

So far, this is per level. But, knowing King…

Insertnicknamehere

… And your choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.

I get the impression that is per level. Hopefully if there was an overall difficulty setting it would be the same, switch once per level. Then again knowing King…

It makes no difference whether I pay 10 gold for an impossible Super Hard level or an impossible Legendary level at my level range, so the feature would make sense, but not for a 10-minute hammer reward. The only possible use I have for it is the Chocolate Box, but they make sure not to give me any opportunities to get a timed hammer if I need it for the Chocolate Box.

as long as the rewards are not crap

Absolutely impossible.

I wonder if this is a test for a larger change where you pick "difficulty" for Candy Crush.

… And your choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.

The feature seems odd, given all the complaints about the game becoming too hard. And it certainly feels like a trap. I wonder how many moves a Legendary version of level 114 would have?

Yep, this is a feature that’s currently being tested, glad to see you got it @christinewupp😃

It’s really useful seeing how different play styles react to it, especially when it comes to the tradeoff between extra challenge and the rewards on offer. The comparisons between the two versions are super helpful.

I’m curious, for those who’ve tried it: what would actually make choosing the harder option feel worth it for you? More rewards, different rewards, or is it more about having control over the difficulty in general?

I am surprised by all these positive responses.

I can now see that players who use a patient approach to their games might like this feature. If you are prepared to replay the level many times over instead of passing on your first or second attempt in order to gain 10 minutes of lollipop hammers then I get it. This idea seems similar to deliberately failing a level multiple times in order to get the half hour timed wrap/stripe from the fishing boat. I am surprised there are still players using this approach, but I guess for some it might work especially if you want to use the hammer for the chocolate box.

I see few levels now for which using either a starting wrap/stripe or a lollipop hammer would make a difference between passing or failing, very, very few. So ten minutes of those boosters are not worth it in my view. They would have to up the prize significantly to make this offer appealing.

I don't have this in my game, but from what I can see, I don't see any downsides. If I'm not playing Candy Royale, 10 minutes of lollipops would be enough to convince me to choose the legendary level.

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First impressions can be misleading sometimes. I'm always willing to be swayed when given the evidence.

Well I won't be doing that again! And nor will anyone else who has their head screwed on the right way, I should think. Whatever are they thinking with this stupid feature???

Therefore if you have enough lives to replay the level before deciding to pay gold you might as well go for the harder version and take the reward with you. Timed boosters stack up, so this can be quite useful.

Glad you have changed your mind after passing a week😜

Many features are useful to players depending on how to use them

This morning's example is just wild! It makes me doubt that this so-called AI has any "I" at all.

How can it think this easy level can be made "legendary" by the removal of a few moves? This is one of the easiest levels in the game. I know it well and have never failed it. It starts off with boosters locked so every player sees the same opening board.

It normally has 18 moves, and I always pass it with several moves to spare. This "legendary" version I actually followed the hinted moves, just to check if there was a hard or legendary version at all. There wasn't:

I thought maybe at the 5 moves left mark the game was going to trick me by not leaving the colour bombs next to the correct colour candies. But this game is simply not intelligent enough to do that now ( a human programmer could have done it I am sure) . So I continued with the hints here and won easily. The game even gave me a colour bomb + fish combo to finish it off with 4 spare moves!

This proves that this whole feature and the AI that designs it is…..

stupid.

@christinewupp I chose the harder level and claimed these rewards.

I am kind of warming up to this feature now.

I have found that often there is no practical difference in difficulty between the "super hard" and the "legendary" version.

The number of moves seems to not matter because the first three moves and the last five moves decide the outcome of each level, so how long the middle portion of a level is does not really seem to affect outcome in most cases.

Often both versions require the use of gold bars to pass on a first attempt. Therefore if you have enough lives to replay the level before deciding to pay gold you might as well go for the harder version and take the reward with you. Timed boosters stack up, so this can be quite useful.

Which one did you choose?

@christinewupp It was the first time seeing this in my game today.

CandyCrusher_321

I was playing the game couple days ago and I saw it for the first time. I thought it was interesting that you choose either a easy or hard level

Today I got a chance to test out this new feature on my own game, yippee!

Level 456 rated super hard:

This one is a great example of a human written board for which an old fashioned lucky board algorithms still exists. Only how to find it?

Well, it so happens the first attempt when scrolling back just now to obtain this screenshot delivered just that, with no boosters played:

The wrap/stripe combo here is a winning move.

So I played this level on two new accounts:

iPhone was playing the normal super hard version with 20 moves.

iPad was given the choice and picked the "legendary" version with 18 moves.

I set off to try find out what the difference would be. Here are the results:

1st attempt for super hard iPhone: I had a double colour bomb on the opening board, so I think I would have passed. I chose NOT to strike the combo for the sake of research. I wanted to see if this level would be possible to pass without boosters. I played a different first move and had a near miss.

1st attempt for the legendary iPad: I had two colour bombs on the board but no combo and achieved a near miss.

I played the subsequent attempts without boosters, making what I thought was the best possible move until the game offered me +255 extra moves. No luck either game. This level was impossible to pass without boosters for both games after the first attempt!

I then tried the level with boosters, first only the colour bomb: no luck either game.

I then tried colour bomb + stripe/wrap: The super hard version passed. The legendary version failed.

I then added the jelly fish, playing all three starting boosters and the legendary level had a lucky board, lots of fish coming out of nowhere and passed with 5 moves to spare.

Lessons learned:

The first attempt boards are definitely a separate entity for all players. I think this is a new change that has come in this year. The account that was scrolling back to play level 456 made another five attempts without boosters which failed. I therefore think the "first attempt" being easier is a real feature and probably applies to all of us.

The difference between super hard and legendary in this instance is probably where the two colour bombs are placed on our opening boards on this first attempt.

The super hard version was passable with the first two starting boosters.

The legendary version was only passable with all three starting boosters.

Super hard or legendary, this level is impossible to win without boosters for new players who replay again and again. Which is rather sad, so early on in the game. But it is what it is.

I love this feature because it gives away such a great deal of info about how the game works! These algorithms are getting easier to read week by week. I'll crack 'em and if it's the last thing I do in this community.

I removed the skull first; always try to do that. After that, I played a popper. By then, the upper order lock had been opened, and the bottom one opened after the popper was played. Then I played a UFO to break up the bottom row. Passed with some moves left on the first attempt. I'm feeling adventurous today 🙂

That's mad to pass in 18 or 21 moves. Did you pass it on your first attempt? Was the one party popper and UFO enough? If so when did you play it? With the sour skulls it's difficult to know quite when.

My mid-range account doesn't have this feature, but it suddenly popped up in my main game.

I just opened the Daily Stamps chest, so I accepted; wouldn't do it otherwise. The level had 18 moves (21 with the Candy Necklace bonus) compared to 23 according to the Candy Crush Saga Wiki.

Are they serious about introducing this at this level range? More difficult levels are what we dream about, of course 🤣

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3471766#Comment_3471766

Thank you for the screenshot. I have taken another more detailed look at this level now.

I played today with the colour bomb booster and passed on my first attempt. So if you assume players have a timed colour bomb at this point then the level should probably correctly be labelled as "hard".

I went on to try the level with no boosters. Luckily my daily treat machine gave me indefinite lives, ideal for this kind of testing!

I failed for 14 attempts. On my 15th attempt I passed: A colour bomb dropped with 14 moves remaining, I created a CB + stripe combo with my next move and interestingly I passed with 5 moves remaining. This means that your 18 moves version would have been just enough to pass at exactly the same time as my 23 move version passed. So moves do not really come into it if playing without boosters. Whether 15 attempts would classify this level as "legendary" I cannot say though: I played level 995 for over 100 attempts yesterday with no pass.

As always in my tests I followed the hints, which in this computer written level showed the best available move in almost every instant.

Thank you! This does suggest that what they have done is removed three moves to all these levels to change their rating. In my experience removing moves does not alter the difficulty of every level though. The decision if we pass or fail, in my books, is about the ability to clear enough of the board in the first three moves and about the luck we then get, especially in the last five moves. 15 moves is enough to clear this board if the game gives us some luck and 18 is still not enough without luck. I will now have a bash at level 3816. 😁

シリンダーノット

Legendary version:

The color bomb is from a timed booster. Same board, but only 18 moves, and feels somewhere around low Legendary

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3471152#Comment_3471152

Again I tried this level in my own game. I had a timed colour bomb from the Daily Treat Machine, as usual. It is unmarked in my game.

Does yours look the same as mine?

These are the outcomes of the first five attempts:

I'd say maybe this would class as "hard" in my estimation. Maybe they are using this feature to test out how players react to labels per se. Unfortunately it's no longer showing up in my game. They must be onto me, that I'm testing out the both versions….

Plot twist: I've just tried the same level on one other account. I played entirely without boosters and had exactly the same outcome: 1st near miss, 2-3rd bad fails, 4th easy pass.

CandyCrusher_321

I haven't seen any when I play the game

シリンダーノット

After completing an episode today, the next level is unmarked by default but can be upgraded straight to Legendary. That's four difficulty tiers! There doesn't seem to be anything mandating that choices have two difficulty tiers of separation. Now I have yet to see three tiers of separation.

The rewards for the higher difficulty are once again 15 minutes of color bombs, 10 minutes of infinite lives, and 15 minutes of coconut wheels.

P.S. The episode that I beat today did not have any Sweet Choice levels.

シリンダーノット

Super Hard version: identical board, 15 moves

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3470661#Comment_3470661

Interestingly in my game, when scrolling back to this level, although on the map this level is displayed as "normal", when I play it I find that it plays as a super hard level: I was unable to pass it with starting boosters on five attempts and am usually left one or two moves short. So I must also be playing the "super hard" version:

I like that offer. I am not surprised you accepted it. Timed lives plus timed boosters would be very helpful for filling the chocolate boxes very quickly, for example. It is really interesting to see this offer has found its way into other level ranges, as I only saw it in my newbie account. If you see this again could you note down how many moves you get for the harder version? I am still wondering what makes a level a "super hard" level. The boards look identical?

I don't like to send my link in this community any more. I am concerned that there may be unwelcome others who might infiltrate my game if I post it here.

I do not open my game every day and am contemplating stopping to play Candy Crush in the near future, so I do not wish to add more friends to my game at this point.

Didn’t mean to post twice.

@christinewupp Can you send me your friend link. I know you accepted mine.

@christinewupp Can you send me your friend link? I know you accepted mine.

シリンダーノット

As of today, I now have this feature. Normal levels can be upgraded to Super Hard.

I accepted the offer.

I don't have it

So far, this is per level. But, knowing King…

Insertnicknamehere

… And your choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.

I get the impression that is per level. Hopefully if there was an overall difficulty setting it would be the same, switch once per level. Then again knowing King…

It makes no difference whether I pay 10 gold for an impossible Super Hard level or an impossible Legendary level at my level range, so the feature would make sense, but not for a 10-minute hammer reward. The only possible use I have for it is the Chocolate Box, but they make sure not to give me any opportunities to get a timed hammer if I need it for the Chocolate Box.

as long as the rewards are not crap

Absolutely impossible.

I wonder if this is a test for a larger change where you pick "difficulty" for Candy Crush.

… And your choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.

The feature seems odd, given all the complaints about the game becoming too hard. And it certainly feels like a trap. I wonder how many moves a Legendary version of level 114 would have?

Yep, this is a feature that’s currently being tested, glad to see you got it @christinewupp😃

It’s really useful seeing how different play styles react to it, especially when it comes to the tradeoff between extra challenge and the rewards on offer. The comparisons between the two versions are super helpful.

I’m curious, for those who’ve tried it: what would actually make choosing the harder option feel worth it for you? More rewards, different rewards, or is it more about having control over the difficulty in general?

I am surprised by all these positive responses.

I can now see that players who use a patient approach to their games might like this feature. If you are prepared to replay the level many times over instead of passing on your first or second attempt in order to gain 10 minutes of lollipop hammers then I get it. This idea seems similar to deliberately failing a level multiple times in order to get the half hour timed wrap/stripe from the fishing boat. I am surprised there are still players using this approach, but I guess for some it might work especially if you want to use the hammer for the chocolate box.

I see few levels now for which using either a starting wrap/stripe or a lollipop hammer would make a difference between passing or failing, very, very few. So ten minutes of those boosters are not worth it in my view. They would have to up the prize significantly to make this offer appealing.

I don't have this in my game, but from what I can see, I don't see any downsides. If I'm not playing Candy Royale, 10 minutes of lollipops would be enough to convince me to choose the legendary level.

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