Candy Crush, the game tricks that drive the web crazy

From the most “powerful” combinations to the less than fair ways to save lives and movements: here are the tricks to advance in the “sweetest” game on the web

Five hundred million downloads for Candy Crush Saga, the unstoppable candy game that is popular on Facebook, iOS and Android. It is the game of the year, the most played of 2013. Developed by King.com, it is a game very similar to the old Bejeweled where you have to align candies of the same color, 3, 4 or 5, to eliminate them. The Saga offers an online race through hundreds of levels, a true race between Facebook friends.

The basis of the game is very simple: you have to move the candies to make a row or a column of at least 3 of the same color. If you make a line or a row of more than 3 candies, you will get a special candy. The movements, except in the timed race, are counted and this is the greatest difficulty: being able to complete the level in the planned movements.

This type of game has three types of levels: remove the jelly, drop ingredients and timed races. Here are some tricks to beat the levels in Candy Crush Saga, have more lives and play longer.

For timed levels it is essential focus on special candies and swap colors as quickly as possible. Obviously, when the candies that give extra seconds appear, you always have to take them off. These fall after a move that causes a cascade of 4 or more combos.

For the levels where you have to drop the ingredients, The trick is to take advantage of the special candies that are obtained by following combinations of 4 or more, since they erase vertical lines. This way, you can consume the ingredient in one sitting.

For levels where gelatin must be removed it is necessary to use chocolates and, even more, the combination caramel – striped candies. In case you cannot combine any special treats, the trick is to eliminate the ones below to generate a cascade of chain combinations.

In the world of Candy Crush The special candies are an important aid, especially in the most difficult levels.. From the union of 4 candies comes a striped candy that erases an entire vertical or horizontal row depending on the type. The row that is removed from a striped candy is horizontal if the stripes are horizontal,

vertical if the stripes of the candy are vertical. The explosive candies inside the package are formed by combining candies of the same color arranged in an L or T. By combining a row of 5 colored candies, the black candy is created that eliminates all the colors that it crosses. For example, if you cross the candy with the red one, all the reds on the screen will explode.

By combining two special candies, you get a super bonus that varies depending on the combination. For example, when exchanging two candies, all the candies on the screen are removed, while two candies in a box make a bigger explosion.

The trick, therefore, is to leave the created special treats intact and try to place them next to each other to join them. In later levels also appear chocolate and licorice candies. Chocolate expands with every turn and you always have to remove it by popping it. Instead, the licorice must be removed by removing nearby candies because they occupy neutral spaces that create obstacles to completing levels.

It’s important to note that you don’t lose a life if you exit a puzzle level before making a move, so if you immediately see a tricky situation, it’s worth getting out there and starting over.. Conversely, you lose a life if you just make one move and then exit to the main screen. If you run out of lives playing on PC, you can take your Android smartphone or iPhone and play another 5 lives. The applications for iPhone and Android, in addition, are maintained and allowed to be used even after the lives given by friends, as long as the computer does not allow it.

Therefore, never immediately accept the lives that your friends give away.. It is a trick to wait instead of having zero and select gifts, lives or movements without pressing Accept All.

An elementary trick to have extra lives on Android or iPhone is to advance the clock half an hour after losing them all.. In the browser you can repeat a level many times without losing lives by opening Candy Crush in several tabs at the same time. This is useful for more difficult levels, so you can get through them without spending too many days waiting for additional lives.