Moves levels (also known as Target score levels) is one of the six level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon is
orange with two white left and right arrows. Moves levels first appear in Candy Town, the first episode, with the first
moves level being level 1.
Outside of the tutorials and the latest episodes, moves levels are sometimes very rare. In Reality, they make up 7.62% of all levels, at 414 moves levels out of the 5435 levels currently. The first 14 often show special significance within an episode, before facing a long appearance drought. However, many timed levels have been changed to moves levels, and since World Twenty-Two, these levels are much more common, with many later episodes with 3 or more moves levels.
In Dreamworld, they make up 3.76% of the 665 Dreamworld levels, at 25 moves levels overall. 7 timed levels in Reality have been converted to moves levels as their Dreamworld counterparts.
The reason for the rare presence of Moves Level is that it is highly associated with tutorials and it is the simplest level type. This is no longer the case, since later episodes regularly feature moves levels.
The current trend is one moves level per new episode (starting from Delicious Depths).
To win moves levels, the player has to get a certain number of points using a set amount of moves. All the moves must be used. When there are no more moves left, Sugar Crush will activate all special candies on the board.
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.
However, a majority of later moves levels are considerably complex, often utilising bombs to prevent you from completing them even if you have reached the target score. With moves levels, you must actually reach the end of the level (0 moves left) to pass; if you reach the target score but don’t reach the end of the level due to a candy bomb exploding or running out of possible switches, you will still fail the level. Some of the later moves levels may also require extremely high scores to pass.
Moves levels are the easiest types in Dreamworld. There are no extremely hard moves levels. However, there are some very hard move levels, but not too many unlike other types. Levels 43 and 114 are hard moves levels. They are considered to be hard due to candy bombs on level 114 and 122. Also, as with Reality, you need to reach the end of the level in order to pass; if the game ends by Odus falling down, you will still fail the level.
Note: During March to April 2018, many timed levels were changed into moves levels. Some of the moves levels mentioned above were formerly timed levels.
Level 182 - The first quadrant moves level. It was also a hard timed level before it was changed to a moves level. This is now the first hard moves level.
Level 189 - The first moves level with marmalade (official release).
Level 223 - The first moves level with liquorice swirl cannons (official release).
Level 683 - First level with mystery candy dispensers (unofficial release). The first official level to contain mystery candy dispensers is level 2034 in the 137th episode, Cavity Cave.
Level 1394 - It is the first to have no regular candies spawn on the board (despite being a level where sugar drops are supposed to spawn) and having the one star target score of more than one million points. It is ironic that this level has four colours yet it remains extremely hard to complete and extremely hard to earn three stars.
Level 1433 - The first moves level with locked chocolate.
Level 1438 - The moves level with the second most moves (47).
Level 1590 - The first level with locked magic mixers.
Level 2045 - Was the level which requirs the highest target score for one star - 3,800,000 points, and the highest points-per-move rate at 253,340 points per move required for one star.
The first 5 moves levels used to be subtly different than all subsequent moves levels. These levels are all tutorial levels.
Upon reaching the one-star target score, Sugar Crush starts automatically, giving at least 3,000 points per move remaining, and the Sugar Crush is identical to ingredients, candy order, and mixed levels Sugar Crush. All subsequent moves levels do not have the early Sugar Crush; you must use all your moves.
Now these levels are no longer giving striped candies during Sugar Crush.
The distribution of moves levels was variable. They became progressively rarer as you progressed through the episodes. Oftentimes, the player would see streaks of episodes without any moves levels, and at other times, they would appear as much as twice per episode.
They were somewhat uncommon up to World 5, but rare since World 6 and so on.
Up to Sweet Surprise, around 1 in 8 levels were moves, and episodes had an average of around two moves levels.
After Sweet Surprise, it decreased to 1 in 15. Episodes had one moves level each until Licorice Tower.
After Licorice Tower, the abundance of moves levels dropped so that there is only one moves level after Licorice Tower (level 433). There was a long stretch of episodes without this level type after Rainbow Runway, for 176 levels.
However, at Cereal Sea, this level type made a short reappearance, but further on, it became very rare; most later episodes from Cereal Sea up to the 100th episode (Delicious Dynasty) did not feature even one moves level. Additionally, most episodes which fall into this category were (and still are) dominated by jelly levels, with some ingredient levels, few (one to three) candy order levels.
However, after the 100th episode, Delicious Dynasty, they became more common. Episodes with 2 moves levels ware present for the first time after Toffee Tower (698 and 701) and second time after Sweet Surprise (204 and 211) at Biscuit Bay (1538 and 1544). Episodes 116 (Pinata Park) through 162 (Bouncy Bayou) feature three or more moves levels.
Moves levels have been declining since the 200th episode, Festive Fiesta. They are very rare in the 3000s. Most later episode contain only 1 moves level. Booty Bay and Delightful Desert contain 2 moves levels. Luscious Landing contains 3 moves levels, the most of any episode in the 3000s. There are also very long gaps between individual moves levels.
This changed a little in the 3700s and the early 3800s, after Episode 250, Pudding Patch, where there is 1 moves level in every episode, and thus increasing the frequency of moves levels.
Level 619 used to be a moves level, but it was a duplicate of level 609. It was later changed to a jelly level.
This and timed levels are the only types of levels where Sugar Crush can happen more than once. This happens if the player buys Extra Moves or Extra Time after failing to reach the target score.
This is the first level type introduced in Candy Crush Saga before the jelly levels.
After the release of the new candy cannons, this is chronologically the last level type where mystery candy cannons appear.
Moves levels and Mixed levels are currently the only move-limited levels to have no level starting with 51 moves or more.
Most timed levels have been changed into this type.
On mobile/HTML5, after the player get more scores than the one-star target score, the game will choose that score as a target for the next time they replay. However, this does not affect to the one-star target score.
Since June 2019, some mobile versions are able to activate sugar crush on moves levels by reaching the one-star score, as opposed to using all moves. The sugar crush effect is the same as ingredients, order, and mixed levels.
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