Talk:Level 70/@comment-24260217-20140502151932/@comment-4548194-20140503142720

In reply to Wildoneshelper:*The poll shouldn't be used to determine difficulty ratings. The comments are more reliable than that, which were ignored. I'd imagine the poll would be more insightful in the later levels. In the early levels of Candy Crush, I don't think it's worth paying attention to.
 * To avoid a dead board, you create vertical stripes/(create any type of special candy, really.) Sometimes you can make a match on the right hand side of the board to facilitate a combo on the left. Making combos isn't easy, but it's doable if you look ahead of your moves. Accidentally releasing the locked candies is a very hard task. Like you said, this is a six colored board - the odds of you accidentally 1. making a special candy and then 2. setting it off in the wrong position are very unlikely. That should rarely be a problem for people, unless they're playing rash. Because candies only spawn on the left side of the board, a color bomb is much more effective here than normal, which can negate the whole 6-color deficit.
 * Usually when that happens, you replay the level and check to see if it was truly hard or not. I completed this level 2/6 times on my replays. Most "hard" rated levels give me more trouble than that. I don't know whether the voters have hit hard episodes or not, but you don't know whether they have or not either, which in turn makes the data from the polls unreliable.
 * This isn't a book - this is a sheet of paper. There's not a lot going on with this board, not much to understand, not much to impede your progress. No, the design alone doesn't give a definite difficulty value, but once you play this level you'd know that there's not a whole lot in your way, nor anything unexpected interfering with your progress. If you use some strategy, combos are manageable. They're not a cakewalk to do, but they're not hard enough for you to want to pull your hair out. If you compare the way the chocolate is placed to level 461's, you'd think that even the chocolate in this level is pretty generous.