Talk:Level 1658/@comment-24693751-20160427195004

19 tries, 3 stars (137,880 points), 4 moves remaining, NBU. Yuck, not only hard but boring af. In my first 5 tries I had a game where I got down to needing 1 more pair of stripes! But then just try after try of crappy boards, explosions going off by themselves, the usual. I didn't find the CB to be helpful at all in this one, if anything I started using the first free one just to open up the board, and subsequent ones I tried to use to bring stripes together, say for instance by getting rid of a color in between them. If you let them(or wraps) sit there too long, they just take up much needed space. I tried one game where I stayed away from the caged candies completely at first but found that wasn't the best idea either because you spend so many moves just trying to make things happen on your own. Like with most levels, it's a balancing act. If you can manage it, try to open & set off the stripes in as many pairs as possible. Be careful which way you're setting off the stripe/stripes. Try to set them off in a way that they're either opening other lucky candies for you(not the boosters, the one in cages). But if you already have another stripe/stripe set up, on the bottom for instance, make sure that if possible you set off your s/s so that it hits the row over the bottom or wherever you have stripes. I'm very tired so hope I'm making sense. Of course there's an element of luck as well. Not as bad to me as the couple of boards in last 2 episodes that were IH IMO(which took me 40 or 50 something tries) so I'm going to say this is Very Hard(bordering on IH) but my vote is still Very Hard.