a friend's account. It had passed quietly in 5 motion.
Two days later on my account after this last version update. I arrived at this stage and could not. I noticed that the mysterious yellows do not count. note: and already used 2 colored bombs matching the mysterious yellow
I too am on this same level and am having the same issue. I have used up all my boosters and even bought more lives (using up my gold). This has become very frustrating. None of the surprise yellows go towards the 13 needed.
I posted the following earlier today for a question that was asked: "I am stuck n Level 408!"
This is indeed a difficult level. Looks like all of you are playing the mobile version. I went back and tried this level on my mobile and failed 5 times running out of lives. I tried one time on my computer browser playing the HTML version and passed on my 1st try. Sometimes I have found if you are having difficulty with a level try playing it on a different version of Candy Crush. Do not make a special effort to unlock the locked licorice let it happen naturally. The only booster I used was the lucky candy to start out. Happy Crushing!
My level 408 is different from the video Sukanta posted .. it requires 13 yellow candies. There are initially 17 yellow candies on the board: 9 are regular and 8 are ones with a "?" on them. The issue I am having is that "smashing" a yellow candy with a "?" on it DOES NOT decrease the required yellow candy count required.... eventually resulting in an error message "Not enough target orders available" - attached are two pics. The first one has the 13 candies. The second one has two less yellow candies (one regular and one ?) but the total needed is only 12.