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The results are in: What the Valentine qualifiers taught me
Here my results from five leaderboards in the Valentine event qualifiers: All these accounts started within 45 minutes of the event, so played three full days. Scores per level are an average over all the levels played, so are more accurate for players who passed the most levels. Final position Score per level levels…
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Tips on how to beat Candy Crush (and enjoy the game) in 2026
This thread will be edited and added to. For now this is my advice: Anyone new to the game or stuck at levels beyond 10,000 please check the threads I link at the bottom Anyone playing below level 5000: It should be possible to make enough gold by following my tips here to win every episode race and increase your gold…
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Hit a wall of impossible levels and used up all your gold and boosters? What to do.
(edit October 2025) 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…
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New feature: Sweet Choice..... What????
Update Feb 2026: This feature is very basic: It picks levels apparently at random and gives levels a harder label by removing a few moves. If you pick the harder version you gain some timed rewards after passing, even if you retry the level several times. Removing moves makes some levels slightly harder to pass, but other…
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Unable to start a new discussion?
Maybe you want post your comment here @Charleyfarley so that @QueenB will see your post. It might get lost in the thread you posted it.
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How to get back onto your feet if you are hopelessly stuck in Candy Crush (2026)
This will be an illustration of how to outwit the game to get back on your feet, but it only works if: You are playing in the lower thousands levels (it probably won't work above level 10,000) you have at least 10 gold remaining in your account plus some boosters you get for free from the game you are willing to let go of…
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How does the game determine level difficulty?
I've been trying to get to the bottom of this question for some time now and have started running some tests. I would like to specify what I now consider the definition of "level difficulty" in Candy Crush: Level difficulty is the number of attempts needed until the game will allow a player to pass* My questions were: Are…
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Opponents on live leaderboards: random or fixed? Real or fake?
For one reason or another I have hardly played Candy Crush in the past two weeks. This has lead to some interesting discoveries as prize palooza shows up. My theory is that we are each given bespoke opponents by the game to match our own activity. So having been inactive in all my accounts I should be seeing easier…
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Please remove the misleading "green button" features from the game!
This is my plea to stop the deliberate inclusion of certain features in the game, which quite frankly take advantage of any player who: plays in a rush is distracted and not paying attention to their game has difficulties understanding complex language or lacks good English skills (many players in Asia play in English but…
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Tips for anyone starting a new account: How to play Candy Crush from the beginning
If you are a brand new starter or an experienced player starting a brand new account here are my best tips from my own experience of playing levels 1-200. King change difficulty of these levels frequently. Some weeks are better than others, so the first lesson is: Pick the right time to start. In between major leaderboard…
