Talk:Level 1943/@comment-25543782-20170726233420

I haven't contributed to this wiki for a long time, but considering the difficulty of this level, I thought I could try and give some possibly useful advice. And also to brag a little bit...

So first of all, the summary: 4th try, 1 star (30,320 points), 1 move left, no booster used (I never use any; that's my "philosophy" of the game). So I would definitely say that it's NOT nearly impossible, but I could easily agree on extremely hard and admit that I've been somewhat lucky. As a matter of fact, after my first attempt, I realized that this level might be another pain and I came here to check the comments, which only confirmed that first impression. I'm glad I got rid of this one so quickly.

OK, that was for the bragging. Now the advice. My strategy was to focus mainly on the popcorn, because it seemed to be the hardest requirement to fulfill, since it only has two available spaces below it from which striped candies can be fired. What's more, they're on the conveyor belt, so being able to fire the striped requires quite some luck and planning. So I tried to form as many vertical striped as I could, mainly on the right side of the board, so that I could then drop them on the conveyor belt which would bring them underneath the popcorn. Also, when making "useless" moves, I tried to make vertical moves, so that any accidentally striped candy formed in the cascade would be vertical as well. (As I recently noticed when King switched from Flash to HTML5 on Facebook, this feature doesn't work with the HTML5 version of the game. I'm glad I reverted back to Flash a few days ago, thanks to the message on the homepage of this wiki.)

As for the icing, that came as a second priority, for which I used the striped candies that could not be used for the popcorn, whenever the opportunity arose. Occasionally, I also tried to form wrapped candies to form wrapped-striped combinations and be more efficient at destroying the icing and/or popcorn. I think I've had one or two such combinations on my successful attempt. I've also had one color bomb, but couldn't make any good use of it. (I actually sacrificed it during a W+S combination which was much more useful.) And the liquorice, well, it pretty much took care of itself while dealing with the rest.

So, to sum up: focus on the popcorn; try to form many vertical striped candies; plan your moves to be able to fire them at the popcorn; use some others to get rid of the icing; if you can make a useful W+S combination, do it; and finally, good luck!