Level 289/Dreamworld

Level 289 (Dreamworld) is the fourteenth level in Funky Fortress and the sixty-first candy order level in the Dreamworld. To pass this level, the player must collect 1 colour bomb, 100 orange, and 100 purple candies score at least 10,000 points in 45 moves or fewer. If the player collects all the required candies and has extra moves left in the level, Sugar Crush will activate and one striped candy for every remaining move will be automatically created and set off and the player will score additional points.

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 (require 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 (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.
 * 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.
 * With only a single moon struck and an unstable moon scale with respective to the orders required, it can be very difficult to collect required candies if either colour is on the left side of the moon scale (the board has five colours). This is because 14 additional candies have to be collected in addition to the 2 candies the player has to collect two turns after the moon struck (100 candies x ( (5 moves + 1 moves) / 45 moves) = 13.33 candies).
 * 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).

Getting Three Stars (For Daring Players)

 * Difficulty: Insanely Hard

Reason

 * Even though five colours should make it easy 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.
 * The starting board space is limited.
 * There are plenty of five layer icing 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 which in turn gives a huge amount of points.
 * Moon struck removes candies matching the colour on the left side of the moon scale (the board has five colours), leaves the board with four colours 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 (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.
 * Even after each 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.
 * Clearing the orders give the player enough points to meet the target score. This point is applicable on Facebook where the purple candies are not awarded 100 points each.
 * This is one of the few levels which are insanely hard to pass and insanely hard to earn three stars.
 * This is one of the five colour levels which has purple colour candies on mobile devices.