Licorice Lair

HTML5 Background
Episode	260
World (Flash)	None
World (HTML5)	52
Levels	3876-3890
Characters	Tommy
Champion title	Candy Craver
New features	in in in in    (unofficial)
Release date	- 10 October 2018  - 24 October 2018
Difficulty	Very Hard
Previous	Next

Licorice Lair is the 260th episode in Candy Crush Saga and the fifth and last episode of World 52 (HTML5).

Story

Tiffi dresses up for Halloween and goes trick or treating in a castle with Tommy.

New things

• One-layered dark chocolate appears in sugar chests (specifically, two-layered and three-layered) for the first time in level 3879.
• Three-layered dark chocolate appears in one-layered sugar chests and four-layered chests for the first time in level 3879.
• Liquorice swirl + mystery candy + striped candy cannon and mystery candy + striped candy + waffle cannon are both unofficially introduced in level 3878, due to redesigning.

Levels

This episode contains levels 3876-3890.

Licorice Lair is a very hard episode, mean = 5.87. It contains four hard levels: 3876, 3878, 3883 and 3890, five very hard levels: 3877, 3880, 3886, 3888 and 3889, and one extremely hard level: 3885. Overall, it is slightly easier than the previous episode, Edible Empire.

5	2	3	4

The easiest : Level 3879

The hardest : Level 3885

3	4	5
2	8	5

Sugar Drop levels
Level 3878	Level 3883	Level 3890

Hexagon levels
Level 3876	Level 3887	Level 3888

 Difficulty code summary (details here)

None • Very Easy • Easy • Somewhat Easy • Medium • Somewhat Hard • Hard • Very Hard • Extremely Hard • Nearly Impossible • Variable

0	0	0	2	0	3	4	5	1	0	0

	Level	Type	Moves	Target score	Goal	Walkthrough	Remarks
	3876			: 200,000 pts	: 71
	3877			: 10,000 pts	: 24   : 84
	3878			: 122,000 pts	: 8   : 57 : 8
	3879			: 20,000 pts	: 2
	3880			: 159,000 pts	: 9   : 60 : 9
	3881			: 12,000 pts	: 15   : 30
	3882			: 100,000 pts	: 10   : 41
	3883			: 400,000 pts	400,000 pts in 25 moves
	3884			: 78,000 pts	: 58 : 2
	3885			: 85,000 pts	: 48   : 25
	3886			: 90,000 pts	: 4
	3887			: 64,000 pts	: 32
	3888			: 10,000 pts	: 66   : 6
	3889			: 45,000 pts	: 30   : 15
	3890			: 120,000 pts	: 51 : 2

Gallery

• Map
• Levels

Map layout

Trivia

• This is the sixth Halloween-based episode.
  • This is the second Halloween episode exclusive to HTML5 version, the first one was Tricky Tower.
• This episode shares its name with the 59th episode of Candy Crush Soda Saga (though the spelling of the word "licorice" is different as British style).
• This episode shares its first word with Licorice Tower, Licorice Luna and Liquorice Lounge (with the latter using a different spelling).
• This is the first episode since Bonbon Brambles to have an original background.
  • As of this episode, there are 23 original backgrounds out of 1101 episodes in this game, which is composed of 2.09%.
  • At a current count of 1101 episodes, the trend where episodes are reusing backgrounds from previous episodes has maintained for 841 episodes.
• This is the fourth (and currently last) episode with the word licorice in its name.