(Edit May 2026)
If you are a long standing player of Candy Crush like me and find that you have hit a wall with level after level impossible to pass, then that is probably because you have hit a wall deliberately put in the game to make long standing players spend all their saved up gold bars and boosters.
The worst such wall is at the last two thousand levels of the game: Anyone who has made it this far and never spent any money on the game is a lost cause to King, not a valued customer. So they make it impossible to get to the end of the map for anyone who does not have a good stash of thousands of gold bars saved up. Anyone else will have to spend hundreds of real life dollars to keep playing.
These are my best tips from my own playing experiences.
Choose one of the following options:
Option 1:
Forget about Candy Crush and have fun doing something else with your spare time
Option 2:
Delete the app then reinstall the app. Play a new game starting at level 1. You may find that the game has changed a lot since you played the early levels, and some of them are harder to pass than you might expect, so do check my tips here:
If you enjoy the new game then great: Keep going and save the game using a different email or login method from your previous game.
If instead you want to get back to your saved King account, you must not save this new game. Ignore the prompts to save your progress and play until you have made enough boosters and gold to help you back on your feet. You MUST turn your gold into boosters before logging into your existing account, since gold bars cannot be transferred, but boosters are stored on your device so will transfer. Buy boosters with any gold you have, using your inventory. Then use the "log in with email" option at the bottom of this screen to get back to your previously saved game with the boosters you earned in the new game:
Another option that still works is:
Option 3:
Give the game a long break or stop playing any new levels.
I mean several weeks. If you are breaking for a long period two things are likely to happen: King will make that level range easier to pass generally. They will do this if too many players quit or are stuck at a certain level range. They also make the last 2000 levels of the game harder to pass than all other levels, so if you pause to fall back behind this wall you might find the game is more enjoyable again.
The other thing that will happen is that the app senses you are about to give up playing, so it is likely to give you some help to get back onto your feet again. Often if you return after a long absence or have been stuck on one level for weeks the app will reward returning players with boosters needed to to get past the next level: You might get a reward, such as a timed UFO from the daily spin or daily treat machine, to help you start the next episode. Or you might get the offer to watch ads for help if you have been absent for a long time and return to playing. If you start playing again at a weekend you should get 40 gold for the first episode race and this might be enough to get you back onto your feet and making gold.
In the meantime:
You could log in daily to collect boosters from the daily wheel, daily treat machine, use old levels to complete any event that still lets you gain boosters from replayed old levels.
The old Season Pass works for this, though the new version does not.
There are some versions of the chocolate box at present (May 2026) which allow players to gain the gold bars by replaying old levels.
You need to know your go-to levels which we unfortunately cannot share here in the community. There are some great go-to levels for these options in the chocolate box: wrapped candies, striped candies, colour bombs, double colour bomb combos. There are also some good levels for: colour bomb + wrap combo, wrap + wrap combo, stripe + stripe combo. The "purple candies in levels you pass" option is a bit more time consuming but can be fulfilled using old levels. It is possible to use timed boosters to fulfil the boosters requirements by using them in old levels as well. So instead of using these to try pass new levels you could use them to earn gold from the chocolate box. You can do all this while you wait to start the next episode.
The above method works best if you persevere the longest, so don't fall for the game's psychological tricks to encourage you to start playing new levels again too soon. Instead: Gather enough boosters and if possible get through a few gold chocolate boxes for the gold bars, using the timed boosters the game teases you with.
