Level 175/Dreamworld

Level 175 (Dreamworld) is the fifth level in Cotton Carnival and the forty-eighth ingredients level in the Dreamworld. To pass this level, you must bring down 2 hazelnuts and 2 cherries and score at least 40,000 points in 24 moves or fewer. If you have extra moves left in this level, Sugar Crush will activate striped candies and score you additional points.

Difficulty

 * There are 4 ingredients to bring down in 24 moves, meaning that you have to bring down one ingredient on an average of 6 moves, not to mention there are three-layered icing in the way.

Moon Struck
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End: moves left

Strategy

 * Any player knows that liquorice swirls are among the most frustrating blockers in the game. You don’t want them to get amongst the icing, or you’ll never be able to open up the board. In the first few turns, make moves that are adjacent to several liquorice swirls. This will remove them from the game before they have a chance to screw up your groove.  After you’ve cleared the liquorice that’s closest to the two beginning ingredients, don’t worry about the rest for now.
 * Though you won’t be able to drop an ingredient out of the board in one turn, thanks to the multi-layered meringues, you can still use striped candies as part of a larger combo move. Wrapped bombs are for combos, and also wreak lots of havoc on their own. Combine one with a striped candy to break through lots of meringue (or even liquorice) at once.
 * By far the most potent icing-removal tool is Odus’s Moon Struck. When triggered, all candies of one colour will be removed, knocking off one layer from all adjacent icing squares. If you have any Moon Struck boosters, use one immediately after triggering the first moon struck, before the first removed colour comes back. This will do tons more damage to the remaining icing and make it much easier to create more special candies and/or cascades.