Level 1151

 is the sixth level in Barking Boutique and the 312th ingredients level. To pass this level, you must bring down 1 cherry and score at least 10,000 points in 30 moves or fewer. When you complete the level, Sugar Crush is activated.

Difficulty

 * With five colours it is easy to make special candies.
 * Special candies must be used to remove the locked chocolate.
 * The liquorice swirls can make it difficult to use striped candies effectively.
 * The ingredient is worth 10,000 points which is equal to the one star target score.

Strategy

 * Well, the simplistic strategy for this one is to wait for a lucky board, because such a board will eventually come and this level will seem easy-peasy on that occasion. On other occasions it will seem impossibly constrained throughout the 30 moves, which it sometimes is.
 * You can help to make your own luck a bit, though. You only need to bring down the one ingredient and you only need to do a bit of opening up to enable that one ingredient to drop. Indeed, a single wrapped candy in the right place can open the whole thing up enough to drive quickly to closure.
 * So try to get some special candy action going high enough up the board to make it more likely that you get that sort of luck.
 * Similarly, try to avoid breaking the locked chocolate down below until you are able to make better use of moves down low than simply "fire fighting" the sprawling chocolate.
 * The board is so constrained that you cannot always follow these wise words, but bear them in mind each time and you'll find that you don't have to wait too long until the metaphorical bus with your number on it comes along.