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Candy Crush: Top Tips and Cheats You Need To Know
Become a Candy Crush Saga MASTER
I’ve had friends tell me Candy Crush Saga is their ultimate vice. They can’t stop playing it. They play it on the train, they play it at work, they play it on the bathroom. Candy Crush Saga first came out way back in 2012 as a Facebook-only game. But its massive popularity there meant its developers quickly catapulted it to both iOS and Android later that year. Since then Candy Crush Saga has been downloaded over 500 million times across platforms.
Candy Crush Saga is a matching puzzle game where you try to line up three or more types of candies to clear them from the board. Different candies have different capabilities, with some acting as bombs, which help clear the board faster. The game works as episodic content, with each new episode containing 15 levels. Currently there are over 1000 regular levels.
And if you haven’t heard of –– or understand just how BIG –– Candy Crush is, well, you might want to check out these facts about the game, courtesy of Brands Synaria.
- CANDY CRUSH IS FACEBOOK’S NO.1 APP
- THE ADDICTIVE APP ROUGHLY MAKES $ 633,000 PER DAY
- THE GAME IS MOST PLAYED IN HONG KONG
- THERE ARE MORE THAN 436,000 PHOTOS TAGGED #candycrush ON INSTAGRAM
- CANDY CRUSH HAS 132.9 MN ACTIVE MONTHLY FACEBOOK USERS
- UK REHAB HAS OPENED A REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR THE ADDICTS
Whether you’re new to Candy Crush Saga or a long time play, we’ve put together this list of tips and cheats you need to know to take Candy Crush Saga to the next level.
Start at the bottom
Candy Crush Saga works in a grid format with cascading candies. That means when you clear candies every other candy shifts down on the screen to fill the spaces the cleared candies were in. Though it may be tempting to clear matches at the top, start by trying to clear them at the bottom as it will add up to more available moves and new candies for you.
Go for 4 or 5 candy matches
In Candy Crush Saga lining up three similar candies will clear them from the board. Good job, right? Well, if you want to become a power player, avoid the temptation of just going for 3-matches and try to line up 4 or 5 similar candies. Lining up 4 candies will generate a special type of candy that when matched with two other special candies will eliminate a whole row of varying candies. Lining up 5 candies will give you a special candy that, when matched, will destroy all candies of a certain color on the board no matter where they lie.
Charms can give you a lot
I know, no one likes in-app purchases, but if you’re a big Candy Crush Saga gamer, it might be worth buying the charms. In Candy Crush Saga charms give you extra capabilities and once you buy one it’s yours forever. A great charm to spend your cash on is the Charm of Life. It gives you eight lives instead of five, which means you can last a lot longer during gameplay.
Be careful of suggested matches!
While playing Candy Crush Saga if you don’t make a move in a while the game will offer match suggestions for you, highlighting two or more pieces of candy that can be matched. While this seems helpful at first, know that it’s not always in your best interest. That’s because the game only shows you two potential matches, not the two best matches necessarily. So just because the game shows you a match doesn’t mean it’s the only–or best–one.
You only have a limited number of turns
At the bottom of the screen you’ll see a number. This represents the number of turns you have left. Once this number runs out, you have no more turns and the level ends. The goal is to clear the level before your number of turns runs out. So be diligent in your moves, optimizing them for the most candies cleared possible.
Use this iOS cheat to get extra lives
Once your lives run out Candy Crush Saga ends. In order to get more lives you need to wait until a certain amount of time has passed, beg your friends for some pro bono lives on social media, or buy more via the in-app purchase mechanism. But some keen-eyed Candy Crush Saga players have discovered a way replenish your lives right away. Here’s how:
On your iOS device go to the Setting app. Tap General. Tap Date and Time. If Set Automatically in enabled, toggle the switch to off. Now more adjust the time two hours forward.
Now return to Candy Crush Saga and verify that your extra lives have been added. But before playing, go back to the Setting app and tap General, then tap Date and Time. Toggle the Set Automatically switch back to ON so all your iOS device settings and times aren’t messed up in other apps.
Now you can go back to the Candy Crush Saga app and begin playing the game again. Even though no time will have actually passed, the game will still think it has and you’ll be able to keep your new lives. Pretty cool, huh?
15:35, 17 Jun 2015