Level 853

Difficulty

 * The board has an awkward shape.
 * All ingredients are locked in liquorice locks, so you must break these locks with special candies.
 * There are hidden teleporters near the middle ingredients and the UFO, but nowhere else.
 * If the two ingredients at the top are released (with a vertical striped candy), they will fall on a stuck zone, which means that you will have to switch the ingredients to the conveyor belt.
 * The ingredients are worth 40,000 points . Hence, an additional 10,000 points is required to earn one star.

Strategy

 * Use special candies to break down the liquorice locks.
 * Use horizontal striped candies to clear the two-layer icings and liquorice locks. They are easy to create with four colours.
 * On the other hand, make vertical striped candies to bring down the two ingredients to the stuck zone. This is easy to create with four colours.
 * When the ingredients are in the stuck zone, switch the ingredients by normal matches. Also, look for possibilities to switch them by a regular match. Of course, the free switch booster helps a lot on this level.
 * After switching them, the rest are a piece of cake.

Trivia

 * This level is shaped like an alien; the other is level 850.
 * The only usable ingredient exit is in the lower left corner. The lower right exit is useless unless a player is low on move and uses free switches to move an ingredient there.