This level is ridiculous. No matter how many times I get the speckled chocolate balls side by side which takes some doing to start with, they then just keep spontaneously exploding on their own and thus not counting as being crossed or combined.
Yes, for me bursting the popcorn and thus releasing the color bombs was crucial. Then forming a wrapped candy, used a switch hand I'd collected somewhere along the way (either from the free spins or those treasure chests) to get it in place and matched the wrap with a color bomb. Another time in that same game was able to…