Level 617

Difficulty

 * There are a lot of hard-to-reach jellies, especially in the corners.
 * Regular icing blocks the upper part of the board
 * With six colours present and an awkward-shaped board, making special candies can be very hard.
 * The jellies are worth 83,000 points. Hence, an additional 17,000 points is required to earn one star.

Strategy

 * If possible, break the icing at the top row first. It is almost impossible to complete the level, if you consume some of the candies on the right but leave the icing intact, as there would be insufficient candies in that half to create special candies, since no more could fall in from the top.
 * Make a wrapped + striped candy combination to clear more jellies. Colour bomb + striped candy can also be useful.

Difficulty

 * The presence of six colours makes it hard to create special candies.
 * The jellies are worth 83,000 points. Hence, additional 117,000 points for two stars and additional 217,000 points for three stars have to be earned through matching of candies.
 * There are insufficient jellies to sustain huge point cascades.
 * The blockers are hard to clear especially the ones at the lower half, reducing the number of moves available for sugar crush.
 * Although colour bombs are more powerful when they hit jellied squares directly, all the blockers on the board are colour bomb proof as regular icings are not affected by colour bombs. This decreases the amount of spaces which can be opened up for more special candies and cascades, and in turn reduces the amount of points earned via colour bombs.
 * Even after the blockers are cleared, it is still hard to create special candies and most of the available jellies would have been cleared by then.

Trivia

 * This level resembles level 475, with identical two target and three star target scores but with fewer jellies, six colours, and no chocolate spawner. The icing, however, is not present in level 475.
 * This is one of the few levels in this episode that does not have a candy frog.