Blocker

A regular icing, locked candy, chocolate, and liquorice swirl, the first 4 blockers in the game.

A blocker is a type of secondary element in Candy Crush Saga. These objects can take on one or more of the following functions:

• Prevent a player from accessing or using candies (i.e. liquorice locks, marmalade, sugar chests, crystal candies and sugar coats)
• Prevent candies from taking up a space unless cleared (i.e. frosting, cake bombs and rainbow twists)
• Prevent a special candy (in particular, Striped Candies) from performing their normal function (i.e. popcorn and liquorice swirls)
• Cover up candies (i.e. chocolate and dark chocolate)
• Spawn other blockers (i.e. chocolate spawners and magic mixers)
• Prevent a level from being completed (i.e. candy bombs)
• Prevent candies from matching (i.e. candy cane fence and candy cane curls)

Typically, blockers take up a square (except cake bombs, which occupy four squares). Blockers threaten the combination of candies and can be very annoying. There are many different types of blockers introduced throughout the game. Every blocker has unique properties, such as chocolate being able to multiply if not broken in one move, and liquorice swirls being resistant to special candies. Some blockers are easier to remove than others. Blockers cannot be swapped with other candies, except liquorice swirl, candy bomb, and waffle blockers.

Blockers are the main obstacles of the board, so it is advisable to clear them as quickly as possible. Nearly every level has at least one type of blocker. Levels can have up to five to ten types of blockers, however, since the addition of magic mixers, there can be even more.

• The first level to have two different types of blockers is level 37.
• The first to have three different types of blockers is level 52.
• The first to have four different types of blockers is level 104.
• The first to have five different types of blockers is level 107.

Despite some blockers being a nuisance, some blockers are useful. For example:

• Liquorice swirls, marmalade, and frosting can prevent chocolate from spreading.
• Chocolate can engulf a candy bomb.
• Marmalade sometimes guards special candies to use to your advantage.
• Magic Mixers and bubblegum pops can give a blast after clearing.
• Bobbers spawn jelly fish when hit.

Since Divine Diner, players may have to collect blockers as part of the order for candy order levels.

List of blockers

Notes:

• Strikethrough blockers mean that they're no longer in use (they've used to exist in the game, but now got removed).
• Bold blockers mean they're exclusive to the HTML5 version.

Image	Blocker Name	First appearance	Unique properties	Overall Threat
	Regular icing	Normal  Episode 3 Level 21 Locked  Episode 199 Level 2969	It is the first blocker to be introduced before it got removed.	Low
	Liquorice lock	Episode 4 Level 36	Prevents candies from being moved or destroyed. May also hold candy bombs and other special forms of candies.	Medium
	Chocolate	Normal: Episode 5 Level 51 Locked: Episode 72 Level 1056	Multiplies and replaces an adjacent candy if not broken in a move.	Somewhat high Beneficial, if replacing bombs
	Marmalade	Unofficial Episode 6 Level 70 Official Episode 14 Level 186	A weaker version of the liquorice lock. Usually protects special candies, but in later levels, they can hold normal candies and even blockers.	None or Very low
	Liquorice swirl	Normal: Episode 7 Level 81 Locked Episode 181 Level 2704	Cannot be matched, and resistant to special candy powers. However, they are mobile, similar to Waffles.	Medium
	Candy bomb	Episode 8 Level 96	Limits the number of available moves, unless cleared. Grant large point boosts when cleared, especially with a colour bomb. Moves vary from just to .	Variable depending on the counter. Even higher if under liquorice locks, sugar chests or crystals. Beneficial (3000 point bonus)
	Multilayered Frosting	1: Episode 3 Level 21 (unofficial) Episode 11 Level 142 (official) 2: Episode 6 Level 66 (unofficial) Episode 9 Level 111 (official) 3: Episode 7 Level 95 (unofficial) Episode 11 Level 141 (official) 4: Episode 13 Level 171 5: Episode 17 Level 232 (unofficial) Episode 20 Level 276 (official)	It is the first blocker to be introduced, and it has a maximum of five layers. The one-layered version is the easiest one to be cleared.	Low to High
	Chocolate spawner	Normal: Episode 12 Level 156 Locked: Episode 108 Level 1596	Permanent throughout the level. Produces chocolate after a certain number of moves when there are no chocolates on the board.	Very high
	Cake bomb	Episode 26 Level 366	Occupies 4 tiles. Each tile takes two adjacent matches to remove the slices. Clears the entire board when all slices are cleared.	Variable depending on the level. Can be useful in some cases.
	Sugar chest	Episode 49 Level 711	Chests are single-tile stationary blockers that cannot be moved. Candies inside chests also cannot be matched. Chests are containers that contain certain locked-up items.	Low to Somewhat high
	Popcorn	Normal Episode 53 Level 771 Locked (Unofficial) Episode 185 Level 2764 Locked (Official) Episode 186 Level 2776	Completely resilient to normal matches. Absorbs special candy powers. It can only be hit by special candies and must take three hits to destroy. On the third hit, it turns into a colour bomb. This blocker may become a 3rd removed blocker, because popcorns could be replaced with three-layered liquorice curl frames with a colour bomb inside.	High Beneficial (colour bomb).
	Magic mixer	Unofficial Episode 47 Level 686 Normal Episode 90 Level 1326 Locked Episode 107 Level 1590	It can produce predetermined blockers on the board per three moves and sometimes two or four (if this blocker does not get hit by adjacent match or special candy effect). Can also make certain Candy Order levels rely entirely on Magic Mixers.	High to Nearly infinite depending on spawn type, amount, and frequency. Beneficial when it spawns blockers part of the order and when it gives a 5x5 blast.
	Bobber	Normal Episode 162 Level 2406 Locked Episode 179 Level 2662	Permanent throughout the level. Spawns jelly fish when hit by special candy effects, and is used beneficially. The jelly fish spawned from bobber swim like activating jelly fish on the board, and will usually target difficult or strategic spaces.	Beneficial
	Candy Cane Fence	Unofficial: Episode 46 Level 679 Official: Episode 218 Level 3246	Permanent throughout the level. Appears between tiles, much like ingredient exits and teleporters. If a blocker is on one side of the candy cane then matches on the other side will have no effect. Blocks candies from falling, as well as chocolate from spreading. It is impossible to swap candies from one side of the candy cane to the other. Special candies cannot be made if the candy cane is involved, but the effects of said candies stay the same.	Variable, but can be helpful in blocking chocolate.
	Waffle	Unofficial Episode 30 Level 434 Official Episode 235 Level 3501	Maximum of five layers. Very similar to multilayered frosting but it is mobile, like a multilayered liquorice swirl. Can get "eaten" by chocolate.	Somewhat low to Somewhat high
	Dark Chocolate	Unofficial Episode 68 Level 1003 Official Episode 249 Level 3711	Maximum of three layers. It is very similar to regular chocolate.	Somewhat high to Very high
	Candy Cane Curls	Episode 274 Level 4086	Maximum of three layers. They are multilayered breakable candy cane blockers.	Medium to High
	Crystal Candy	Episode 308 Level 4596	Maximum of three layers.	Low to Medium
	Rainbow Twist	Episode 380 Level 5676	Maximum of five layers. Linked together in a chain that can be destroyed by clearing any one of the rainbow twists within the chain.	Somewhat low to High
	Sugar Coat	Episode 401 Level 5991	Maximum of three layers. It can encase candies and other objects and it can move. It is the first movable encasing blocker.	High to Extremely high
	Bubblegum Pop	Episode 437 Level 6531	Maximum of five layers. When destroyed, it generates a 3X3 explosion like a wrapped candy.	Very low to Somewhat high Beneficial (3x3 blast).
	Toffee Tornado	Episode 29 Level 411	Randomly moves around every two turns (one before its third nerf), destroying candies (and sometimes blockers), and blocking the tiles. Can make an entire level luck-based and unpredictable, and often greatly increases its difficulty. Note: This blocker has been nerfed three times before finally being eliminated from the entire game.	Extremely high
	Rainbow Rapids	Episode 476 Level 7116	Generates a rainbow from the top vertically. It could be collected or destroyed by linking to any rainbow rapids.	Low to High
	Liquorice Curl		Maximum of three layers. They are multilayered breakable candy cane blockers, that absorb special candy powers. The popcorn may become a 3rd removed blocker, because popcorns could be replaced with three-layered liquorice curl frames with a colour bomb inside. This blocker also blocks the effect of wrapped candies.	Somewhat high to Very high
	Liquorice Fence		It's a variant of candy cane fence, which absorbs special candy effects. Therefore, if there's a blocker inside that space, the only ways to destroy that blocker without boosters are CB+CB combination, landing candy frog in that space (only applies when there's another grid for candy frog to enter), and cake bomb explosion. Otherwise, boosters are inevitable. It even blocks the effect of wrapped candy effects and bubblegum pop explosion. So, five-layered frosting, bubblegum pop, and popcorn may become much stronger if they're inside that space.	Extremely high or Nearly infinite

Gallery

• Toffee tornado (removed)
• Red Jelly Fish in marmalade
• Empty marmalade
• Marmalade with coconut wheel
• Marmalade with wrapped and striped Candies
• Chocolate
• Chocolate spawner
• Cake bomb (web)
• Cake bomb (mobile)
• Regular icing (removed)
• One-layered icing (aka Sachet) - old version
• Two-layered icing - old version
• Three-layered icing - old version
• Four-layered icing - old version
• Five-layered icing - old version
• One-layered frosting
• Two-layered frosting
• Three-layered frosting
• Four-layered frosting
• Five-layered frosting
• One-layered sugar chest
• Two-layered sugar chest
• Three-layered sugar chest
• Four-layered sugar chest
• Five-layered sugar chest
• Liquorice lock
• Liquorice swirl
• Candy bomb without timer
• Popcorn

  Go to Level 771
• Magic mixer (first version)
• Animated magic mixer (current version)
• Bobber

  Go to Level 2406
• Candy Cane

  Go to Level 3246
• One-layered waffles
• Two-layered waffles
• Three-layered waffles
• Four-layered waffles
• Five-layered waffles
• One-layered dark chocolate
• Two-layered dark chocolate
• Three-layered dark chocolate
• One-layered Candy Cane Curls
• Two-layered Candy Cane Curls
• Three-layered Candy Cane Curls
• One-layered Crystal Candy
• Two-layered Crystal Candy
• Three-layered Crystal Candy
• Candy Cane Fence
• Bubblegum pop base
• 1-layered bubblegum pop
• 2-layered bubblegum pop
• 3-layered bubblegum pop
• 4-layered bubblegum pop
• 5-layered bubblegum pop

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Trivia

• The most infamous blockers of Candy Crush Saga are: chocolate, chocolate spawners, candy bombs, five-layered frosting, five-layered sugar chests, popcorn and magic mixer (formerly known as evil spawner) because of their properties and the difficulty of destroying them.
• Colour bomb + colour bomb combination can strip a layer from or remove all of the blockers, except chocolate spawners, sugar chests, bobbers, and candy cane fences.
• On HTML5, there used to be a glitch, so bobbers unofficially appeared in levels 426-434. The glitch has been fixed.
• Blockers can sometimes be beneficial in certain cases.
  • Magic mixers can help you collect the blockers to complete the order, and you have to completely rely on them in certain cases. It can also give you a 5x5 blast which can help in completing the objective.
  • Bobbers give you jelly fish when hit.
  • Bubblegum pop gives you a 3x3 blast, which can also help in completing the objective.
  • Popcorn gives you colour bombs when popped three times.
  • When a coconut wheel is set off, and there is a blocker in front of a colour bomb, or another coconut wheel, it will prevent the active wheel from setting off those blocked special candies.
  • They can also prevent the impact of detrimental blockers.
  • Immobile blockers are also helpful when blocking out a candy bomb/liquorice dispenser, or preventing chocolate from passing through.
• Since Divine Diner, blockers are required. Some levels rely entirely on magic mixers to complete.
• Level 275 currently has a useless candy bomb dispenser. That is because it is covered up by a chocolate spawner.
• As of level 5098, certain immobile blockers can be moved by the conveyor belt. If proven, they are known as semi-immovable blockers. However, even though they can be moved, they still retain their old behavior.