Talk:Level 875/@comment-108.2.111.192-20150311031310/@comment-25543782-20150311183011

I couldn't disagree more. Among recent levels, I think this is one of the few that rely the least on luck. After a couple of failed attempts last night, I passed it on my first try today, and I believe it had more to do with strategy than with sheer luck.

Others have already given some hints and possible strategies to help pass this level. Here is how I did it myself.

1) The chocolate is obviously a problem, because whenever it has spread, you'll have to remove it before being able to clear the jelly underneath. So it's a two-step process, and if you cannot clear any jelly for some moves, then chocolate spreads again and you'll have to waste some more time to remove it.

2) The most efficient way to remove the chocolate, I think, is by using the two coconut wheels: no special combo, just drag them horizontally, and in 2 moves, all the chocolate is gone. Therefore, my basic strategy was to not use any of the given special candies (at least not the colour bombs and the coconut wheels) until all of them are freed.

3) So, during most of the game, I didn't care so much about clearing the chocolate and the jelly, and rather concentrated on: (i) creating special candies (vertical striped or wrapped candies) to destroy the popcorn and free the colour bomb; (ii) removing the sugar keys (since you know that they appear every 5 moves, try to have them fall near the middle of the board, where it will be easier to combine them); (iii) on occasion, using vertical stripes to already start clearing some chocolate and jelly.

4) Once the second coconut wheel was freed, I used both of them, as said above, to clear any remaining chocolate. I then had the 3 colour bombs still available and had to use them efficiently to clear as many jellies as possible. I combined the first of them with a wrapped candy (I can't remember where it came from, maybe that was a bit lucky), which already helped quite a lot. Finally, using the last two colour bombs and some standard candy swaps in the bottom part, I was able to clear the last few jellies.

So, yeah, it's definitely a tricky level and, of course, there is always some luck involved. But it's definitely not an entirely luck-based level.

I hope this will be of some help to those who are still stuck on this one.