Talk:Level 984/@comment-24693751-20150619073245

I would agree with the medium rating. Took me 5 tries, 1 star. My 1st board I don't remember b/c I played the other day but I played 3 in a row just now where I had 2 candies left each time. I could've used a hammer on one of them to hit a striped candy that would've taken out the last two but I'm trying with this episode to not use boosters(even though I have a million from the Sugar Drops), just to see if I'm patient how long it will really take me & how my experience compares to others, difficulty ratings, etc. I did find this one a bit frustrating though. My last cpl of tries I did use a +3 moves from a friend though since they're level specific. My winning board I actually had 10 moves left(7 w/o the extra moves). I devised a system where I would try to get as many candies as I could w/o bringing bombs down in the center(this also helps to get the candies around the edges first). I realized I was too focused on the bombs in most tries. Twice I was stopped by them but then became so focused on them that I had a game where I ran out of moves. So I started only getting rid of bombs at if I could make matches with them or if they were getting very low. Without getting rid of them right away, I actually found more opportunities to make special candies with them and some would just disappear on their own with other matches. Winning board the game was nice enough to give me a color bomb from reshuffling which I used to take out a candy bomb close to exploding & then was able to create my own cb which I used on the final candy which happened to be a wrapped. I came very close to 2 stars with a score of over 275,000 but no cigar!