Talk:Level 1479/@comment-24693751-20160203220556

10th try, 2 stars (220,980 points), 2 moves remaining, NBU. The thing that gets me about these types of boards is not just how hard they are but how BORING. Especially lately when we've seen some interesting new ideas from King, then to go back to a board like this-locked chocolate is the enemy-is just very underwhelming. The game prior to my winning one, I only had 2 jellies left & usually when that happens, it means I know I'm going to pass soon. I tried to start with a decent board, either one where I could make a special right away and/or one where I could see there were a lot of places where I could begin to break up the licorice. Of course, specials and combos are the biggest help. I don't know exactly which ones or how many I got my winning game but I know in general I was getting quite a bit of CB/stripes. Also pretty sure I had one or two wrapped/stripes winning game. As soon as you're able to open up that huge chunk of chocolate mess on the bottom left, just go at it with all you've got, like it's an evil spawner lol. No but seriously that's the section I kept getting stuck on, I finally realized I just had to seize any opportunity to get to it. So in other words, I stopped letting myself get distracted by making specials elsewhere on the board(except for cb's which I always made if I had the opportunity). If it was between making a striped somewhere else and breaking up one piece of chocolate on the bottom left, I'd break the one piece of chocolate. That & combos are the only way I passed. For me, I'd personally rate this as Hard, although I can understand why many others feel it is IH.