Talk:Level 1481/@comment-24693751-20160204011247

1st try, 3 stars (383,880 points),2 moves remaining, NBU. 😬 I didn't come to the page before I played this board so had no idea it was considered so hard by many. I won't bother to rate it as I am pretty sure I was just lucky. That being said I'll still at least try to share anything I can think of that might possibly help. As a few others said who also passed quickly and without boosters, it really does get a lot easier if/when you're able to open up the board. Other than that, I really just went after it with the usual mix of specials and combos. I was fortunate to get a CB/striped combo early on which really opened the board. I had at least one other CB/striped combo, towards the end. At that point I also had 3 cb's on the board, however I believe most of them were actually made by the board or myself because almost all of the cb's from the popcorn got blown up. I was able to make a wrapped/striped combo smack in the middle of the board and hesitated b/c I knew that it would destroy a CB I also had in the middle but I decided it was worth it because I knew it would hit the majority of the popcorn I had left & most of them looked like they were about to burst open. In fact I think I did get a few opened that way but then they mostly just exploded due to falling next to wraps that were also exploded. I also lined up regular stripes wherever possible to hit popcorn. I'm racking my brain, trying to think of anything else that might be useful. The chocolate wasn't an issue between the CB/striped combos and so many things exploding, it got wiped out pretty quickly. I had one more popcorn left(the one on the left side) but my last CB/striped opened it up. By that time I only had a cpl more jellies, one I matched on my own, and the other I used the CB to get. And that was it, sorry I wish I had something more helpful. It's not impossible though, you just need that lucky board (which I happened to get right away) and it IS possible without boosters, though I don't think there's anything wrong with using them either if you choose to. Just don't give up! Good luck guys.