Level 1123

Difficulty

 * The ingredient exit is blocked by 5-layered icing squares.
 * Teleporters are blocked by regular icing squares.
 * The ingredients are worth 20,000 points, which is equal to the one star target score.

Strategy

 * An intriguing, if potentially irritating level. While only four colours, the isolated units provide little room for special creation, making luck a significant factor.
 * You can only reach the central blocker via the top sections, so you need to open up at least one of those with a well placed vertical stripe or two. In any case, you will need the additional space to make the specials you need.
 * Ideally break the middle of the three icings in the upper segment - that way your chances of the other two "falling away" without much or any effort from you increases markedly.
 * You need to adjust your brain to the notion that the lower segments are logically above the upper segments and that the flow through is asymmetric as the segments have different shapes. This is important to your planning and you will need to plan this level.
 * While the upper segments are critical, as they are the only ones from which specials can hit the target blocker, you might well need to create some of your specials in the lower segment and then transport them to the upper, so always be on the lookout for specials in all segments.
 * As the target blocker is so specific, wrapped candies are very useful as combinations with striped candies, increasing the size of your potential target (you don't need to start right at the bottom of an upper segment and also potentially bringing vertical stripes into useful play from an upper segment.
 * You do not need to open up both upper segments - indeed using the above strategic points, this author completed the level with plenty of time to spare all from one upper segment.
 * Still, you will need some luck as well as good planning and the above tips to get through this level, but there is enough challenge to keep you interested.

Miscellaneous Info

 * 1) 2 ingredients x 10,000 points per ingredient = 20,000 points