Liquorice Lock

Locked Candies, or Licorice X is a blocker in Candy Crush Saga. It is somewhat uncommon in the game, and is quite a difficult blocker to get rid of, especially when there are lots of them. The blocker looks like a locked door, with licorice surrounding the outside of the square and an X-formation over the candy.

These blockers appear officially as the new element in episode 4, Chocolate Mountains, but make a premature appearance in level 25.

Licorice X blockers work similar to Marmalade in that they have a candy below it. Candies with a licorice X over them can't be selected. The blocker can be removed by a special candy effect or by being able to match the candy under the blocker with two other candies of the same colour.

Properties
If the candy under the blocker is matched, it will only be considered as "released from captivity", meaning that it WILL NOT disappear, but you will still get 60 points. Nor will it disappear if a special candy is used. Not even a colour bomb.

Trivia

 * These blockers are significantly harder to deal with than the Licorice Swirl, yet the licorice swirl is introduced later.
 * This blocker is one of the reasons level 65 is hard.210px-Level_65_2.png
 * Level 393 is the 100th level to contain licorice X blockers.
 * They can keep Candy Bombs & Mystery Candies captive.

Notable Locked Candies

 * Level 25 - 1st level
 * Level 65 - The former hardest level in the game. Has arguably been supplanted by Level 425.
 * Level 393 - 100th level