Talk:Level 170/@comment-3225604-20131023134408/@comment-5306356-20131101192111

I got rather lucky on the first try, making 3 colour bombs in the first several moves, managing to pass towards the end.

Elements making it harder include that every space except for the chocolate spawners are double jelly, including 4 spaces which are hard to hit (the four which start with chocolate). As well, the board as a whole is somewhat narrow (especially near the bottom), making special candies harder to make than on a full 9x9 board. Chocolate can be annoying, blocking off the four hardest-to-get jellies. Finally, you only get 30 moves.

Elements making it easier include having just 5 colours, making special candies easier versus a 6 colour level, and cascades will generally clear off most of the jelly with little effort, with the exception of jellies near the perimeter. As well, none of the blockers are particularly difficult (licorice is trivial, and locked candies aren't too bad considering it's 5 colours). While the chocolate is annoying it isn't particularly tough, and in specific cases it can help by eating an ill-coloured candy (e.g. a blue candy when you have hardly any other blues on your board) off the tough jelly spaces. The target score is trivial.

I'd say medium is okay, perhaps considerably easy, but I'm neutral since I had a lucky first attempt so can't really say how hard it really is.