A vertical striped candy is no longer required at the early stage, since there is an initial opening at the top.
In 20% of cases, the red will be on the left side of the moon scale, and therefore removed during moon struck. Therefore, the difficulty and necessary strategy for this level is variable.
The player is required to collect an average of 3 red candies per move.
liquorice swirls appear very frequently, and can be hard to remove.
Moon struck will prevent candies matching the colour on the left side of the moon scale from spawning. If red colour appears on that side, 6 additional red candies have to be collected in addition to the 3 red candies the player has to collect two moves after the moon struck.[1][2]
The orders are worth 8,800 points.[3] Hence, an additional 16,200 points is required to earn one star.