Yes, the weekly race is all fake, much like the rest of Candy Crush really. This, by the way, is my leaderboard in my latest game. All of my competitors were at levels 1-5 at the start of the race. Not one of them has played since the race started. And no, they can't see me. Definitely not, because the weekly race does not…
For better or for worse, now someone has dug up this old thread from a year ago it makes me quite sentimental. Note how a year ago I bemoaned that there were no longer any levels that would give more than 400 purple. Well, now in 2025 there are hardly any that will give over 200 purple.
This is an old thread @Lance and since All Stars 2024 a lot has changed in the game. In fact I believe that since then King have tweaked the levels in such a way that many yield a specific number of purple at most and long cascades are no longer possible. So what I wrote above a year ago is out of date and no longer…
Now here's a little side track: To give my Poppy game a chance I decided to play some new levels for the 30x multiplier, which in this case can only be the Star Tournament. You will need some party poppers and UFOs for this, BUT the yield per level is remarkable. I managed to score 79,380 points for 15 levels, which is…
Incidental finding while carrying out my purple candy collection experiment: I caught the game's dirty dealing right in the act. This one was really foul. Level 254 on my first attempt with Poppy, playing with starting boosters only (in real life I guess this would equate to a player with no super colour bomb and not…