Lives

Lives are a fundamental element in Candy Crush Saga. They appear in the top-left corner in a pink heart. When you start playing for the first time, or resuming play after a few hours, you will have 5 lives, which is the maximum (8 if you bought the Charm of life).

If you have one or more lives, then you can click on a level and play it. If you fail the level, a life is lost. When you run out of lives, you will not be able to play any levels, and the "No more lives" screen will show.

Running out of lives
When you run out of lives, there are five ways to get more lives. Many people don't want to do any of these. They feel asking their friends is spamming (or they have none online), don't want to wait 30 minutes, don't want to make ingame purchases and there is no rare offer. Because of this, a fifth way to get lives has developed.
 * Asking your friends. You can ask your friends to gift you with more lives.
 * Waiting. Lives naturally replenish every 30 minutes, so you can leave the game, go out somewhere and come back two and a half hours later.
 * Buy more lives. More lives can be bought in the Yeti Shop.
 * A rare offer. Every now and again, the Candy Crush team will release a new game and an offer will come up telling you if you get to a certain level (usually 10) you will be awarded a full set of lives.
 * Cheat. People have obtained illegitimate lives through setting their computer clock forwards, using multiple facebook accounts, or even hacking.

Trivia

 * Many players resent the fact there is a 30-minute wait to get one life back.