Talk:Level 1142/@comment-26366029-20150814124752/@comment-26366029-20150815125427

Yes,    TANSTAAFL, that's exactly what I mean.

Now that I have finished the episode, I might try this level a few more times to see what happens and see if I can improve my advice, although the subsequent comments infer that it is helping some people and/or at least helping a bit.

I found 1145 harder than 1142, because the bombs in 1145 give you little time to manoeuvre your way out of trouble. 1142 has little of that.

I am fairly sure that a counter-intuitive approach to the early choices helps with this level (as indeed it does with 1145), while accepting that such a constrained board as 1142 will sometimes be beyond help, especially if the mystery candies are a hinderence. But the business end of this level can be resolved pretty quickly, so there for sure is time for early stage manoeuvres and shuffling before you assault the main task of dropping the ingredients.