Moves levels

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Moves levels was one of the seven level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon was orange with two white left and right arrows.

Moves levels used to appear as the f i r s t five levels of the game before they were all replaced with new order level tutorials.

In Dreamworld, they made up 3.76% of the 665 Dreamworld levels, at 25 moves levels overall. 7 timed levels in Reality were converted to moves levels as their Dreamworld counterparts.

Moves levels were common in the first year of the game, after which they did not appear until Cereal Sea. The rare presence of moves levels was due to the fact that this was the simplest level type. After a fluctuating trend, it was fixed to an average of 1 per episode starting in Pudding Patch. Moves levels did not appear after Bubble Base.

Many timed levels had been changed to moves levels, before being redesigned into other types of levels starting in late 2020.

On 13 July 2021, almost every remaining moves level was converted into other level types due to underperformance. On 31 August 2021, the last 25 moves levels were redesigned, thereby making this level type extinct.

Compared to the other types, moves has been voted to be the easiest type.

Objective[]

To win moves levels, the player had to reach at least a certain score within a set amount of moves. Unless the player hadn't beaten the level, all moves had to be used, meaning they may had to watch out for Candy Bombs and other blockers. Once all moves were used, Sugar Crush would activate all special candies on the board.

Circa late 2019, an update on HTML5 impacted all moves levels. Now, when you reached the set target score, Sugar Crush would automatically be triggered, with a striped candy created per every remaining move, allotting the player 3,000 points each. However, this was only triggered on your first time completing a moves level, not replaying.

Web description[]

You have a limited number of switches before running out of moves. If you use up all your moves before reaching the score required to earn at least one star, you will fail the level.

Difficulty[]

Reality[]

Moves levels were usually easier than any other level types, but there were still a few hard moves levels such as 3591, 3995, 4183, and 4766.

A majority of later moves levels were considerably more complex, often utilising bombs to prevent you from completing them even if you had reached the target score. Some of the later moves levels also required extremely high scores to pass.

If you reached 1 star, sugar crush would be activated. At first, all special candies on the board would be activated, then the remaining moves would be turned into striped candies, each scoring you 3,000 points, increasing the chance of getting sugar stars.

Dreamworld[]

Moves levels were the easiest type in Dreamworld. There were no extremely hard moves levels. There were some very hard move levels, but not too many, unlike other types. Levels 43 and 114 were hard moves levels. Some levels (such as 122) were considered to be hard due to candy bombs. Also, as with Reality, you needed to reach the end of the level to pass; if the game ended by Odus falling off the moon scale or the candy bomb exploding, you would still fail the level.

Notable moves levels[]

Note: From March to April 2018, many timed levels were changed into moves levels. Some of the moves levels mentioned below were formerly timed levels. Later, in 2020-21, all moves levels were changed into other types.

Level 1 - The first moves level in the past. Also the moves level with the lowest target score (300). This level could not theoretically be failed, unless you pressed the quit button. Now it's a candy order level.
Level 96 - The first moves level with candy bombs.
Level 144 - The moves level with the most moves (45).
Level 899 - The first moves level in the game from 13 July to 31 August 2021. Also the first moves level with conveyor belts, liquorice shells, liquorice locks and UFOs.
Level 1739 - The first moves level with chocolate and frosting.
Level 1748 - The first moves level with candy bombs.
Level 1810 - The first moves level with marmalade and candy cannons.
Level 1832 - The first moves level with jelly fish.
Level 2601 - The first moves level with magic mixers.
Level 2820 - The last moves level on the Flash version.
Level 3393 - The first moves level with chocolate fountain.
Level 3988 - The first moves level with toffee swirls, cake bomb, sugar keys and sugar chests.
Level 3995 - The moves level with the highest target score (320,000). The only moves level rated as "nearly impossible".
Level 4183 - The first moves level with candy cane fences.
Level 5141 - Formerly the moves level with the least moves (it had only 1 move!)
Level 5264 - The first moves level with crystal candies, bobbers and coconut wheels. The second-to-last moves level in the game.
Level 5576 - The last moves level playable in the game.
Level 6822 - The last moves level King had ever made. It was eventually changed into a jelly level.

Trivia[]

Moves level icon

Hard Moves level

Before the 31 August 2021 removal, all 25 remaining moves levels in the game were either 4- or 5-coloured.
Moves levels and timed levels were the only types of levels where Sugar Crush could happen more than once. This would happen if the player bought Extra Moves or Extra Time after failing to reach the target score.
This was the first level type introduced in Candy Crush Saga before the the redesign of level 1 in mid-2021.
On mobile / HTML5, after the player got more than the one-star target score, the game would choose that score as a target for the next time they played the level. However, this does not affect the one-star target score.
When the scoring system changed in September 2020, upon release of 1.186, it made almost all moves levels much harder.
Liquorice curls, liquorice fences, order locks, sour skulls, bonbon blitz or dark chocolate fountains never appeared in moves levels. Jelly jars had no chance of appearing in moves levels even if they were still being made, since they could only appear in levels that require jelly. Also, moves levels and rainbow rapids levels (or rainbow rapids mixed levels) never coexisted in the same episode. Moves levels never had different colour schemes as opposed to the standard colour scheme.
- There were no moves levels beyond the 5500s prior to their removal. Prior to moves levels being phased out, they never appeared in the 7000s or beyond.
The years when moves levels were added and were removed are almost the same number (2012 and 2021).

List of Moves levels[]

This was the list of moves levels before they started phasing out of the game. Note that the "Gap" column is just for purpose of illustration.

Note: Some of the moves levels below were formerly timed levels before their removal.

Moves Level #	Level ()	Gap from the previous moves level	Details
#1.	1	None	An introduction level that was impossible to fail unless the player quit.
#2.	2	1
#3.	3	1
#4.	4	1
#5.	5	1
#6.	20	15
#7.	27	7
#8.	32	5
#9.	36	4
#10.	47	11
#11.	59	12
#12.	64	5
#13.	80	16
#14.	84	4
#15.	94	10
#16.	96	2
#17.	97	1
#18.	98	1
#19.	110	12
#20.	114	4
#21.	121	7
#22.	122	1
#23.	134	12
#24.	139	5
#25.	144	5
#26.	145	1
#27.	151	6
#28.	159	8
#29.	166	7
#30.	177	11
#31.	182	5
#32.	189	7
#33.	198	9
#34.	204	6
#35.	211	7
#36.	223	12
#37.	237	14
#38.	252	15
#39.	267	15
#40.	283	16
#41.	297	14
#42.	313	16
#43.	328	15
#44.	343	15
#45.	358	15
#46.	373	15
#47.	433	60
#48.	609	176
#49.	612	3
#50.	613	1
#51.	630	17
#52.	646	16
#53.	683	37
#54.	698	15
#55.	725	27
#56.	735	10
#57.	773	38
#58.	792	19
#59.	880	88
#60.	892	12
#61.	899	7
#62.	973	74
#63.	979	6
#64.	983	4
#65.	1004	21	First moves level in the 1000s. They started becoming more common here.
#66.	1019	15
#67.	1068	49
#68.	1198	130
#69.	1237	39
#70.	1387	150
#71.	1389	2
#72.	1394	5
#73.	1409	15
#74.	1424	15
#75.	1433	9
#76.	1438	5
#77.	1495	57
#78.	1501	6
#79.	1533	32
#80.	1538	5
#81.	1544	6
#82.	1562	18
#83.	1575	13
#84.	1579	4
#85.	1584	5
#86.	1588	4
#87.	1590	2
#88.	1595	5
#89.	1602	7
#90.	1617	15
#91.	1628	11
#92.	1633	5
#93.	1636	3
#94.	1638	2
#95.	1640	2
#96.	1644	4
#97.	1652	8
#98.	1674	22
#99.	1694	20
#100.	1710	16
#101.	1720	10
#102.	1723	3
#103.	1730	7
#104.	1733	3
#105.	1739	6
#106.	1741	2
#107.	1748	7
#108.	1753	5
#109.	1757	4
#110.	1762	5
#111.	1767	5
#112.	1778	11
#113.	1784	6
#114.	1785	1
#115.	1786	1
#116.	1799	13
#117.	1803	4
#118.	1810	7
#119.	1813	3
#120.	1816	3
#121.	1817	1
#122.	1820	3
#123.	1821	1	Icing Islands was the first (and so far, only) episode with 7 moves levels after the removal of timed levels (1821, 1822, 1825, 1828, 1829, 1832, 1835)
#124.	1822	1	Prior to removal of timed levels, Icing Islands was the first episode with 4 timed levels (1822, 1825, 1828 and 1832).
#125.	1825	3
#126.	1828	3
#127.	1829	1
#128.	1832	3
#129.	1835	3
#130.	1837	2
#131.	1839	2
#132.	1845	6
#133.	1856	11
#134.	1859	3
#135.	1866	7
#136.	1869	3
#137.	1871	2
#138.	1874	3
#139.	1878	4
#140.	1882	4
#141.	1885	3
#142.	1888	3
#143.	1890	2
#144.	1891	1
#145.	1898	7
#146.	1902	4
#147.	1906	4
#148.	1912	6
#149.	1914	2
#150.	1918	4
#151.	1925	7
#152.	1927	2
#153.	1932	5
#154.	1936	4
#155.	1940	4
#156.	1941	1
#157.	1944	3
#158.	1947	3
#159.	1950	3
#160.	1952	2
#161.	1955	3
#162.	1956	1
#163.	1958	2
#164.	1964	6
#165.	1965	1
#166.	1988	23
#167.	1992	4
#168.	1995	3
#169.	1997	2
#170.	1999	2
#171.	2016	17
#172.	2021	5
#173.	2026	5
#174.	2030	4
#175.	2045	15
#176.	2049	4
#177.	2053	4
#178.	2055	2
#179.	2058	3
#180.	2060	2
#181.	2073	13
#182.	2077	4
#183.	2079	2
#184.	2083	4
#185.	2084	1
#186.	2086	2
#187.	2089	3
#188.	2091	2
#189.	2094	3
#190.	2100	6
#191.	2121	21
#192.	2126	5
#193.	2128	2
#194.	2131	3
#195.	2135	4
#196.	2160	25
#197.	2161	1
#198.	2162	1
#199.	2163	1
#200.	2164	1
#201.	2165	1
#202.	2168	3
#203.	2170	2
#204.	2175	5
#205.	2177	2
#206.	2197	20
#207.	2199	2
#208.	2201	2
#209.	2205	4
#210.	2209	4
#211.	2210	1
#212.	2214	4
#213.	2216	2
#214.	2225	9
#215.	2228	3
#216.	2229	1
#217.	2232	3
#218.	2235	3
#219.	2237	2
#220.	2240	3
#221.	2257	17
#222.	2258	1
#223.	2265	7
#224.	2266	1
#225.	2269	3
#226.	2271	2
#227.	2279	8
#228.	2283	4
#229.	2290	7
#230.	2292	2
#231.	2295	3
#232.	2304	9
#233.	2313	9
#234.	2314	1
#235.	2331	17
#236.	2336	5
#237.	2340	4
#238.	2342	2
#239.	2374	32
#240.	2375	1
#241.	2377	2
#242.	2386	9
#243.	2388	2
#244.	2395	7
#245.	2408	13
#246.	2414	6
#247.	2432	18
#248.	2443	11
#249.	2461	18
#250.	2490	29
#251.	2492	2
#252.	2583	91
#253.	2601	18
#254.	2612	11
#255.	2634	22
#256.	2638	4
#257.	2653	15
#258.	2682	29
#259.	2698	16
#260.	2708	10
#261.	2750	42
#262.	2753	3
#263.	2758	5
#264.	2774	16
#265.	2803	29
#266.	2820	17
#267.	2830	10
#268.	2866	36
#269.	2872	6
#270.	2885	13
#271.	2922	37
#272.	2935	13
#273.	2940	5
#274.	2962	22
#275.	2967	5
#276.	2980	13
#277.	3003	23
#278.	3009	6
#279.	3048	39
#280.	3075	27
#281.	3093	18	Formerly last timed level.
#282.	3365	272
#283.	3393	28
#284.	3460	67
#285.	3469	9
#286.	3486	17
#287.	3494	8
#288.	3495	1
#289.	3526	31
#290.	3535	9
#291.	3558	23
#292.	3591	33
#293.	3603	12
#294.	3618	15
#295.	3641	23
#296.	3675	34
#297.	3703	28
#298.	3739	36
#299.	3749	10
#300.	3763	14
#301.	3779	16
#302.	3797	18
#303.	3808	11
#304.	3823	15
#305.	3851	28
#306.	3858	7
#307.	3868	10
#308.	3871	3
#309.	3883	12
#310.	3891	8
#311.	3902	11
#312.	3905	3
#313.	3915	10
#314.	3921	6
#315.	3943	22
#316.	3959	16
#317.	3976	17
#318.	3988	12
#319.	3995	7
#320.	4003	8
#321.	4018	15
#322.	4030	12
#323.	4045	15
#324.	4051	6
#325.	4063	12
#326.	4080	17
#327.	4111	31
#328.	4123	12
#329.	4135	12
#330.	4148	13
#331.	4169	21
#332.	4183	14
#333.	4198	15
#334.	4212	14
#335.	4224	12
#336.	4243	19
#337.	4251	8
#338.	4273	22
#339.	4289	16
#340.	4299	10
#341.	4317	18
#342.	4333	16
#343.	4348	15
#344.	4363	15
#345.	4378	15
#346.	4391	13
#347.	4410	19
#348.	4429	19
#349.	4453	24
#350.	4463	10
#351.	4483	20
#352.	4498	15
#353.	4515	17
#354.	4530	15
#355.	4544	14
#356.	4556	12
#357.	4577	21
#358.	4588	11
#359.	4603	15
#360.	4615	12
#361.	4634	19
#362.	4648	14
#363.	4651	3
#364.	4660	9
#365.	4678	18
#366.	4688	10
#367.	4702	14
#368.	4719	17
#369.	4735	16
#370.	4748	13
#371.	4766	18
#372.	4779	13
#373.	4798	19
#374.	4813	15
#375.	4828	15
#376.	4843	15
#377.	4853	10
#378.	4868	15
#379.	4883	15
#380.	4917	34
#381.	4936	19
#382.	4949	13
#383.	4957	8
#384.	4976	19
#385.	4993	17
#386.	5021	28
#387.	5034	13
#388.	5051	17
#389.	5068	17
#390.	5081	13
#391.	5093	12
#392.	5114	21
#393.	5124	10
#394.	5141	17
#395.	5158	17
#396.	5169	11
#397.	5190	21
#398.	5201	11
#399.	5218	17
#400.	5231	13
#401.	5244	13
#402.	5264	20
#403.	5277	13
#404.	5290	13
#405.	5306	16
#406.	5323	17
#407.	5340	17
#408.	5355	15
#409.	5369	14
#410.	5383	14
#411.	5394	11
#412.	5411	17
#413.	5428	17
#414.	5439	11
#415.	5454	15
#416.	5473	19
#417.	5489	16
#418.	5502	13
#419.	5514	12
#420.	5516	2
#421.	5537	21
#422.	5550	13
#423.	5559	9
#424.	5576	17
#425.	5590	14
#426.	5604	14
#427.	5623	19
#428.	5634	11
#429.	5654	20
#430.	5669	15
#431.	5682	13
#432.	5699	17
#433.	5714	15
#434.	5729	15
#435.	5741	12
#436.	5757	16
#437.	5774	17
#438.	5786	12
#439.	5805	19
#440.	5821	16
#441.	5834	13
#442.	5849	15
#443.	5865	16
#444.	5881	16
#445.	5894	13
#446.	5907	13
#447.	5922	15
#448.	5941	19
#449.	5947	6
#450.	5971	24
#451.	5979	8
#452.	5995	16
#453.	6085	90
#454.	6103	18
#455.	6115	12
#456.	6133	18
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#465.	6264	11
#466.	6308	44
#467.	6368	60
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#473.	6704	34
#474.	6751	47
#475.	6763	12
#476.	6794	31
#477.	6809	15
#478.	6822	13