Talk:Level 1289/@comment-24693751-20151121153559

6th try, 3 stars (131,880 points), 7 moves remaining, no boosters. My first 5 tries I don't think I got one cherry down. But then I followed the advice below to pay attention to the moves the cherries come down in & try to get them all in the first lane(left side). Actually I tried it twice, but the first time I just didn't have the option to get or move them all to the right lane. (And by right I mean left 😊). When I was able to though, the level became much easier. My first one down actually went in the 2nd lane but I moved it over and got all the rest out in the first lane. I might be getting my games mixed up but I *think* I used a CB/striped fairly early on in my winning one, after clearing a lot of the licorice. I was able to clear it with regular matches, a wrap here, a stripe there etc. Unbelievably I had the option for another CB/striped (if they were both in fact in the same game). I didn't use it immediately though & I don't remember why. Then in an exciting plot twist just when I got all the cherries to the right, I had the option to make a wrapped/striped OR use the CB/striped. The w/s was on the right side, in the row next to the cherries so figured I'd start with that. It got them down all the way to the end with one licorice blocking them. Unbelievably the CB/striped combo followed them & I had 2 different stripes even to choose from. But then I saw that one of the stripes I could just use vertically in the first lane so that was that. Didn't end up needing the 2nd CB/striped combo. The thing is if you're able to get them in the same lane, you've got a lot more moves to break up the licorice & once you do, since it's only 4 colors, specials are easy to make. If it wasn't for the advice to have them all in the same lane & knowing when they were coming down, probably would've been on it longer & found it a lot harder. As it was, using that strategy, I found it to be Medium.