Liquorice Lock

Liquorice Lock, also known as Licorice Lock or Locked Candy is a blocker in Candy Crush Saga. It is somewhat common in the game, and is quite a difficult blocker to get rid of, especially when there are lots of them. The blocker looks like a locked door, with licorice surrounding the outside of the square and an X-formation over the candy.

These blockers appear officially as the new element in episode 4, Chocolate Mountains, but make a premature appearance in level 25. In Dreamworld, it is introduced earlier in level 15.

Licorice lock blockers work similar to Marmalade in that they have a candy below it. Candies with a licorice lock over them can't be selected. The blocker can be removed by a special candy effect or by being able to match the candy under the blocker with two other candies of the same colour.

Properties
If the candy under the blocker is matched, it will only be considered as "released from captivity", meaning that it WILL NOT disappear, but you will still get 60 points. It will also won't destroy any blockers beside the opened locked candy, nor will it disappear if a special candy is used. Not even a colour bomb.

In fact, only Toffee Tornadoes or Moon Struck can destroy the locked candy in one go.

Trivia

 * These blockers are significantly harder to deal with than the Licorice Swirl, yet the licorice swirl is introduced later.
 * This blocker is one of the reasons that past versions of level 65 and level 70 are hard.210px-Level_65_2.png
 * Level 393 is the 100th level to contain licorice lock blockers.
 * They can keep Candy Bombs or Mystery Candies captive.
 * The differences between Licorice Locks and Marmalade is that Marmalade usually protects special candy and Marmalade can also be broken by a match made adjacent to it.
 * Licorice Locks protect normal candies, although some of them protect bombs or Rainbow Candies.
 * In Level 397 and 514 the locks over the special candies function like marmalade rather than locked candies.
 * A Jelly Fish that hits a Licorice Lock will not have a layer of the jelly removed. It will only remove the lock.
 * The official name is "Liquorice Lock", as you can see it at this photo:Names.jpg

Notable Levels with Liquorice Locks

 * Level 25 - 1st level appearance
 * Level 65 - The former hardest level in the game
 * Level 393 - 100th level
 * Level 440 - The level with the most locked Candy Bombs
 * Level 472 - The level with the most locked candies