What's the strategy for consistently hitting 1000 blues during All Stars?

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I think you have misunderstood my post⤵️

The answer you wanted to know has been hidden in all the articles written by a senior frog member here with legendary rank.😂

The main disadvantage with Star Tournament is you cannot take any special boosters through so are limited to one colour bomb, one striped and wrapped and either lucky candy (or coconut wheel).

Therefore there is no way to start with a combined colour bomb or have the super colour bomb combos that clear most of a board quickly.

So you save gold by not having to spend to complete impossible levels etc but end up needing to use premium boosters on some levels if you want to do them quick enough, or skipping which takes time.

Based on your findings the multiplier helps the star tournament player as they can optimise strategy and go berserk on boosters during the half hour spells.

As you say the winner on your board probably didn't waste loads of boosters to score 1000 a level when not multiplying as the cost/benefit was minimal and if they had to maintain that scoring for the full 24 hours it would have probably been too difficult.

Will be interesting if players think it’s worth getting accounts to star tournament for next year and then who knows what sort of scores they could reach depending on the rules.

I played probably 30-40 levels a turn. There was part of the cycle where I skipped 14 levels in a row pretty much every time which was a lot of downtime, so I was timing my multiplier to end before I hit this run.

Most party boosters I played on a level was 2 on a level I don’t normally play but I had about 40 seconds of a multiplier left so tried to rush through one last level and succeeded.

As I had put a couple of weeks ago, had I been more prepared for this and had say 10000 gold beforehand, I could have probably played more boosters and maybe able to reach the highest score, but I made a judgement that I was going to fail so stopped,

The lollipop and hand boosters aren’t the quickest to play so buying extra moves was a better option but you only ever got offered 5 moves anyway so I felt didn’t make a big difference.

I didn’t see how many players who were top were on Star Tournament levels as I think most serious players used the new account strategy to start as low as possible.

May I ask, when you say only a handful of levels had the potential to reach 1k, were any of those levels close to each other within the 82-level cycle?

Based on how this player scored, I would assume there might be at least around five within a 30-minute window, with at least two appearing back-to-back.

I don't think that is possible. The Star Tournament always advances you to the next level whether you win or lose; you have to loop through all 82 levels to get back to it again. There were only a few levels where you could score like that. The key in the Star Tournament was to skip the low scoring levels by immediately quitting them (takes about 10 seconds each) and then play the good ones. I was skipping about half of the levels each time, and only managed a rate of about 8000 per hour. Sweetcandyline was managing close to 10000 per hour, having obviously worked out a more optimal way to score with the Star Tournament.

But yes, GiggzZz, 1000 blues in 2 minutes was certainly possible on at least one and maybe as many as 3 of the Star Tournament levels.

As I said in my response to Selodio, please note it is not helpful to be on later levels. Most of the winners started with relatively new accounts, finishing somewhere below level 10000. Keep in mind they did many thousands of levels in the tournament, so that means they started in just the first few thousand levels. I think the common strategy is to play a few thousand levels before the tournament to build up gold bars and boosters, and then use the early levels for maximum scoring. The good players have played through the early levels many times and know where many of the best scoring opportunities are.

This year the rules were such that being all the way at the end of the map, in the Star Tournament, also gave you a chance, and one person did make it through from there. Unfortunately, I did not - I was scoring far too slowly.

Yes, I always started my multipliers on the same level to try to maximize points.

Please note that it is NOT advantageous to be on later levels - the later levels are very slow to score. The advantage was to be all the way at the end of the map, in the Star Tournament. That's where the advantage lies. I think the Star Tournament gives a big advantage to making it to the final stage, but it takes really great skill to get all the way to the live finals with it. There was one player who did make it from the end of the map, and another (sweetcandyline) who had a good shot and was scoring fast enough to have made it with an easier board. I unfortunately was not nearly fast enough; the best I was doing with the multiplier was 8000 points per hour. I was fully 200,000 points behind the leader on my board, I'm afraid. I came second on that board, but I think only because many of the others just stopped trying because it was so hopeless. 😄

Yuppp! And sometimes right after each other. I was quite surprised. And looking at it, it’s wild to realise that someone could fit about 15 levels at 1k each into one multiplier for a whopping 150k. I doubt anyone could actually pull that off, but it’s still crazy to think it’s possible in theory if everything is fully maximised 🤩

Thank you!😊 I’m really glad I wasn’t the only one wondering about this 🙈

I had a similar experience when trying to prolong levels, like it does work a little, but nowhere near enough to farm 1000 before the level clears on its own. I can definitely see how the frog levels, and the ones where you can prevent the board from clearing, would be much more lucrative. Sadly I didn't see much of those (or the frog at all) in my level range.

I also thought about the strategy of quickly failing and restarting levels repeatedly, but that would still take extra time each attempt. And if the level eventually clears automatically anyway, I wouldn’t expect the score per level to increase that much overall.

It will be really interesting to see what others share about their experiences. It definitely goes to show that everyone being at different parts of the map/star tournament can create some slight unfair advantages 🤭

Thank you for this explanation! ☺️Combined with the other replies, this really helps me better understand what might have been happening.

I definitely agree with you that party boosters must have played a role in reaching those 1,000 blue-candy levels. Though, I still find the pace impressive, because the party popper animations themselves also take some time to run, so doing this in under 2 minutes per level is still very fast.

Unfortunately I can’t say with 100% certainty what their exact score was on every multiplier (I only noticed this player appear in my top 5 during the final hours) However, three multiplier sessions looked to be roughly in the 57k–68k range each.

Wow👀 This was really helpful to read, thank you for taking the time to explain it so in-depth! I didn’t know being at the end of the map could be that advantageous. If the same good scoring levels repeat every 80 levels, it makes a lot of sense that players can recognize when they’re coming up and time their multiplier windows around them.

Haha I had a feeling the frog might be involved somewhere 😂 I was just surprised by how consistently it was happening, so I figured I’d ask and learn a bit more.

GiggzZz

1000 blues in 2 minutes? That explains a lot those over 500k scores…

Very insightful, nobody1! Thanks for sharing that…. I think if there’s to be another all stars my strategy would make it farther in the game it seems the later levels have best opportunity. I’m curious,

Did you end up making it through the last knockout stage?????

Chelsey

I love your post! Thanks for it. I was wondering a similar thing. I tried prolonging the levels to collect more but found it was collecting a very small amount. I also asked ChatGPT the same thing to see what it came up with. Supposedly in later levels (where I am also not yet) that it’s easier to farm blue candies at a faster pace and that some players will find good farming levels and keep paying gold bars for more moves … since it keeps collecting with more moves, just not more tries if fail the level and start again. Idk if this actually works, would love to see and hear from someone who was reaching these higher amounts of candies 😊

Hi,

To add to the other comments, I was on the Star Tournament levels and they are a repeat cycle of 82 levels, with some more conductive to scoring high on blue candies and quickly. However, the majority would end up completing automatically due to fish etc.

I only once hit 1000 candies a level in an earlier round but this was slow and a practice and involved me using boosters as my last move (e.g. lollipop on colour bomb), wait for a cascade and repeat. However, think this would have taken me about 5 mins to do on this test and I didn’t have effectively unlimited resources so didn’t do this strategy.

The only way I think they could have done it in the time frame you suggest (2 mins) is they could have perhaps played multiple party boosters instead of lollipops and effectively done the same thing but at a quicker rate (as don’t have to make any moves yourself). I looked back at one of mine and I scored 8550 in 3 mins on a level (1 party booster). So if they had used 10+ party boosters consecutively they could have perhaps done this in 2 mins and I’d guess on 2 levels max, which they could only really do once in a half hour token. But given the cycle repeats they could choose when to activate token to do this every time they used one.

Spending 20 party boosters in 4 mins of gameplay is probably excessive but I suppose if it got you 20000 points in that time it may have been a decent strategy, if boosters/gold was no object.

How many points did they score on each token as I think my best was 53220, which seemed to match what others on regular levels were able to score, but if I had applied this tactic I could have added a few thousand more, which could have proved the difference?

The Star Tournament is favorable for that in that there are about 80 levels which repeat. There were three levels that I found particularly good for scoring blues. I never got the technique down to consistently score 1000, but on the one with just 2 colors (blue and green), I pretty consistently scored over 700. I suspect 1000 might be fairly easy to do consistently if you were as careful as possible to not break the board open and if you went out of your way to make color bombs, and then when running out of moves, use gold to buy extra moves. With that technique I think it would be quite possible to score 1000 each time. I really probably should have done that but I have a silly aversion to paying gold bars for extra moves. So I settled for about 700 each time on that level. Pretty silly of me, to be honest.

There is another 3 color level that I was able to regularly score in the 300 to 400 range, and then one of the frog levels where you could block a sprink with a frog and then just rack up points. I suspect that one would also be easy to get 1000 on if you went out of your way to set up color bombs on each move and then bought extra moves with gold bars in the end. Perhaps I could have gotten some of the extra speed I needed with those techniques, but I couldn't bring myself to abuse them that far.

If you have read all articles of a frog, you will find your answers 😂

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I think you have misunderstood my post⤵️

The answer you wanted to know has been hidden in all the articles written by a senior frog member here with legendary rank.😂

The main disadvantage with Star Tournament is you cannot take any special boosters through so are limited to one colour bomb, one striped and wrapped and either lucky candy (or coconut wheel).

Therefore there is no way to start with a combined colour bomb or have the super colour bomb combos that clear most of a board quickly.

So you save gold by not having to spend to complete impossible levels etc but end up needing to use premium boosters on some levels if you want to do them quick enough, or skipping which takes time.

Based on your findings the multiplier helps the star tournament player as they can optimise strategy and go berserk on boosters during the half hour spells.

Will be interesting if players think it’s worth getting accounts to star tournament for next year and then who knows what sort of scores they could reach depending on the rules.

Most party boosters I played on a level was 2 on a level I don’t normally play but I had about 40 seconds of a multiplier left so tried to rush through one last level and succeeded.

The lollipop and hand boosters aren’t the quickest to play so buying extra moves was a better option but you only ever got offered 5 moves anyway so I felt didn’t make a big difference.

I didn’t see how many players who were top were on Star Tournament levels as I think most serious players used the new account strategy to start as low as possible.

May I ask, when you say only a handful of levels had the potential to reach 1k, were any of those levels close to each other within the 82-level cycle?

Based on how this player scored, I would assume there might be at least around five within a 30-minute window, with at least two appearing back-to-back.

But yes, GiggzZz, 1000 blues in 2 minutes was certainly possible on at least one and maybe as many as 3 of the Star Tournament levels.

Yes, I always started my multipliers on the same level to try to maximize points.

Thank you!😊 I’m really glad I wasn’t the only one wondering about this 🙈

Thank you for this explanation! ☺️Combined with the other replies, this really helps me better understand what might have been happening.

Haha I had a feeling the frog might be involved somewhere 😂 I was just surprised by how consistently it was happening, so I figured I’d ask and learn a bit more.

GiggzZz

1000 blues in 2 minutes? That explains a lot those over 500k scores…

Did you end up making it through the last knockout stage?????

Chelsey

Hi,

Spending 20 party boosters in 4 mins of gameplay is probably excessive but I suppose if it got you 20000 points in that time it may have been a decent strategy, if boosters/gold was no object.