Talk:Level 1805/@comment-24693751-20160703011201

Another disaster of a level for me! 27 tries, 2 stars (160,820 points), 7 moves remaining, NBU. This was Insanely Hard for me and I'm baffled by how many found it as easy as they did. Watching the demos helped (should've done it earlier, I was already about 20 tries in when I remembered to). But I really didn't get anywhere until I finally was able to start loosening up the popcorn with wrapped/striped combos and a CB/striped combo & then finally I got the coveted (for these kind of boards) CB/CB combo several times in a row. I still needed 2 more popcorn though & had one CB at the bottom with a bunch of popcorn around it but not much else when luckily another CB came down from the heavens and I was able to combine it with a stripe which completed the order for me. But prior to that, only came close one other time, and it was my 25th! I only needed one more & could've cried when I didn't get it. Anyway, for any others having trouble like I did, I would advise watching the demos and more specifically make as many wrapped/striped or wrapped/wrapped around a group of popcorn to hopefully start a CB/CB combo that will keep repeating. Also of course CB/stripes and CB/wraps are helpful as well, it's just hard to make combos with the popcorn taking up half the board. So if you open a single popcorn and theres not a chance to combine it with one next to it or you make one of your own, I suggest using it fairly quickly on a random color, that way you make more space for making combos.

Overall I didn't find this episode too bad, a few IH levels but that's par for the course these days. Only one that was truly evil and that I used boosters on was 1803 (gold bars are considered boosters, right?! Cause I assumed they were but someone posted that they'd used gold bars but also said "NBU"????)! Anyway I will probably go back and try to do it without ANY boosters until the next episode comes out but I'm keeping my expectations low lol. 😬🙏🙈