Level 289/Dreamworld

Level 289 (Dreamworld) is the fourteenth level in Funky Fortress and the 61st candy order level in the Dreamworld. To pass this level, you must collect 1 colour bomb, 100 orange, and 100 purple candies, and score at least 10,000 points in 45 moves or fewer. When you complete the level, Sugar Crush is activated.

With five colours instead of four making it harder to create special candies, plenty of five layer icing and liquorice swirls causing many moves to be spent to clear them, the liquorice swirl dispenser compounding the problem of clearing blockers, the moon scale being unstable with respect to the orders required, moon strucks which come late as it requires 20 moves to fill up the moon meter, moon struck duration being too short at only 5 effective moves, the moon struck being not that powerful as it only removes candies matching the colour on the left side of the moon scale as the board has five colours, and a high three star target score makes this level hard to pass and earn three stars. It is available to be voted as the hardest level in Dreamworld and the hardest level in Dreamworld to earn three stars.

Difficulty

 * The initial space is very small, and colour bombs cannot be created at those spaces because the spaces are 4-by-4.
 * Five colours makes it difficult to break though the five layered icings.
 * Even though you only need to collect 100 of both orange and purple candies instead of 150 in the Reality counterpart, it is much more difficult to do so with five colours.
 * Colour bombs are harder to create due to the increased colour.
 * Moon struck will prevent candies matching the colour on the left side of the moon scale from spawning as the board has five colours. If orange or purple colour appears on the left side of the moon scale, 14 additional candies have to be collected in addition to the 3 candies the player has to collect six moves after the moon struck (100 candies x ((5 moves + 1 move) / 45 moves) = 13.33 candies). Note: This assumes that the start of the moon struck removes less than the number of required candies whose colour appears on the moon scale.
 * This level is much harder than its Reality counterpart in terms of passing the level and earning three stars.

Moon Struck

 * 1st Start:  moves left.
 * 1st End:  moves left.
 * 2nd Start:  moves left.
 * 2nd End:  moves left.

Strategy

 * Concentrating mainly on the icings is key. It is essential to open up the board as quickly as possible before the first moon struck arrives. However, this requires extremely good luck.
 * A good tip is to clear the icings located near to the liquorice dispenser which in turn should allow the space required to create the colour bomb (refer to the picture for details).

Earning More Stars (For Daring Players)

 *  difficulty: Easy
 *  difficulty: Insanely hard

Reason

 * Even though the presence of five colours should cause fewer moves to be spent to create special candies, its Reality counterpart has four colours for all the moves available. Hence, it is harder to create special candies compared to its Reality counterpart.
 * The orders give 21,000 points (((100 + 100) regular candies × 100 points per regular candy) + (1 special candy × 1,000 points per special candy) = 21,000 points). Hence, clearing the orders alone leaves the player having to earn an additional 94,000 points.
 * Even though the three star score requirement is the same as its Reality counterpart, the extra colour makes it hard to reach. Furthermore, the orders require require 100 fewer candies compared to its Reality counterpart, requiring 10,000 more points to be earned through special candies.
 * The starting available board space is limited and only has two quadrants, making it impossible to create a colour bomb.
 * There are plenty of five layer icings which require plenty of moves to clear them, reducing the number of moves available for sugar crush. To make matters worse, an extra colour makes it even harder to clear them.
 * The liquorice swirls and the liquorice swirl dispenser compound the problem of clearing the blockers.
 * The need to collect a large number of orders with the amount of blockers present requires huge cascades and special candy combinations which in turn gives a huge amount of points.
 * Moon struck removes candies matching the colour on the left side of the moon scale as the board has five colours, lasts for five moves and occurs twice (though the second moon struck starts at move 0 which means that there are only five effective moon struck moves). This makes it much easier to create special candies. However, considering that its Reality counterpart has four colours for 45 moves, the moon struck duration is much too low to boost the score as only 11.11% of the Reality counterpart has four colours in the Dreamworld counterpart. Furthermore, the moon struck duration will be wasted in attempts to clear the blockers.
 * Overall, the moon strucks may not be enough due to their short duration.
 * Even after the first moon struck ends, it is not much harder to create special candies. However, the blockers and available board space negate this advantage.

Trivia

 * This level suffers from the empty slot glitch, like level 325 Reality version 1.
 * This is one of the few levels in which the player has to collect a huge amount of candies.
 * Completing the order gives the player enough points to meet the target score.