Talk:Level 715/@comment-26306737-20150426145417

This level can be very tough at first, but it does get very easy  during the latter half.

Here's the hard part, and it's a doozy:  you have to unlock and "pop" four keys ASAP to unlock the top-row boxes blocking the cascade of new candies. No new candies will fall until this is accomlished, meaning that you can't play the level -- it's game over very quickly.

The "key" to the Key stage is to focus on and target the top-most keys first -- then move on to the two keys located lower on the board. The reason for this is that if you do not unlock those top-two keys within the first few moves, the candies at the top of the board will clear out and you'll have nothing to use to unlock those keys from their marmalade. IF you have left a key stranded with no surrounding candies, your only option is to try and use specials to "hit" the key from far below -- and this is difficult-to-impossible to accomplish.

So get those keys freed up and "popped" via matches ASAP. The only real hard part is those first, top two keys -- popping all four once they are freed isn't too difficult.

Once the keys are out of your way, the boxes unlock, the board is flooded with candy and this level becomes very easy indeed! You only have three ingredients to drop and that doesn't seem to be too difficult -- they'll even drop off by themselves if/when they reach the lowest row. As noted elsewhere, these ingredients show up at pre-determined intervals, which means you'll have a series of turns to take with nothing really to do, as there is no new ingredient to be dropped yet on the board. Use these "down times" to create all the special candies you can -- striped, wrapped, candy bombs -- they'll all be of help once your next ingredient appears!

Good luck!