Candy Crush Saga: The Guide
Candy Crush Saga is a simple game that is driving a lot of people crazy. Not only that, but it is so popular that it drives thousands and thousands of dollars into the developers' pockets as players purchase virtual goods on the game.
Throughout this article, however, we are going to look at Candy Crush from the players' point of view, and this will be a guide covering all the cheats, hints, tips and tricks to give you a leg up on this casual game so you can surpass your friends and family in no time.
This guide is a shortcut towards "Candy Land" - get it? Aw well...
The game itself is a 3 match-up game like many others, but with a twist - you actually have to think before starting to swap, candy crush best level to collect fish for chocolate box because there is usually something that limits you, such as a moving cap that you must respect towards achieving your objective - but if you're reading this, you probably know about it already.
I also suspect it contains an Artificial Intelligence algorithm to ensure you don't win too much or lose too much, making the game continuously addicting and preventing players from dropping it, which is something that was proven throughout many other games, including console and PC triple-A titles, so don't discard it as a conspiracy theory.
How to Win at Candy Crush Saga:
Basically, the idea is to join three or more candies of the same color so that you can crush them and get your points or clean your board - but it is not that simple:
- Highscore with a move limit:
Most of the time you have to reach a certain score within a certain move limit. You get a certain amount like 20 moves and you have to capitalize on them - making sure that you score big.
- Clear all the jelly in the field:
Sometimes you just need to clear jelly, sticky stuff that requires two matches in order to be cleared.
- Get some fruits down the line:
There are certain levels where you have to match candies in order to clear spaces beneath fruits to get them down, and you win by getting the fruits off the game board.
A Candy Crush Morality
A Candy Crush Philosophy
The Candy Crush game has been around since 2012 but I had no interest in playing it until our Covid-19 lockdown from March 26, 2020. It is very addictive - probably because you are under the illusion that you are actually achieving goals.
In the times between waiting for the Candy Crush lives to be revived, and my own life to be restored to half-normal, I kept part of my brain alive by deriving a few Candy Crush Life Lessons from the game.
For some reason (maybe the translucent sweets of various colors) the game made me think of the famous book by the German writer Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game. When I was a teenager, I found his books profound and reread several of them more than once. I never really understood The Glass Bead Game though.
The Glass Bead Game is set in the future: an educational order for the elite, who plays the elusive Glass Bead Game. The rules of the game are never explained in any detail. It is said that the game plays around with themes in philosophy, music, mathematics, and other themes. Ultimately it should show that all is in harmony. Since the main character of the book, Joseph Knecht turns his back on the elite order to make a difference in the "real" world one could suggest that the game is actually a waste of time? Another similarity with Candy Crush.
The Building Blocks
I assume most people reading this article will know the basics of the Candy Crush game. Candy Crush Saga (the first game and the one I am still busy with) was expanded over the years by adding new Games. In total there would be few thousand levels. I will focus on what I know of the game so far.
The building blocks of the CC Life Lessons are:
- The journey
- Space and Time
- The level goal
- The raw materials
- The products (sweets)
- The weapons, tools and obstacles
- Resources for the elite
- Skill, strategy, tactics
The Journey is More Important Than the Destination
We always say the journey is more important than the destination.
In Candy Crush that is the truth, since there is no destination.One frame leads to the next and if you do finish one Saga, there is always a new one to start.
The destination is an illusion. The trick of the game is to keep you on the journey. Each frame of the game has a goal and your receive rewards to keep you motivated. There are also tricks to keep you at it - medium-term rewards linked to episodes, challenges and cumulative rewards.