Pudding Pagoda
is the 26th episode in Candy Crush Saga and the second episode of World Five. This episode was released on 14 May 2013. The champion title for this episode is Sherbet Shogun.
Before episode: Neko the cat needs Tiffi's help in stopping the Gumzilla monster (aka Bubblegum Troll) from causing massive destruction to the pagoda tower. After episode:
The Gumzilla monster turned out to be the bubblegum troll. Tiffi and the bubblegum troll fight with pretzel sticks until he got out to say, "I'll be back! HA HA!" and the cat got happy.
New things
Cake bombs () are introduced in level 366. (Brief Description: A blocker with 8 segments. Once all eight are destroyed, it removes all candies and one-hit blockers from the screen, as well as taking off layers.) It is the first blocker to take up more than one square - they take up 4 squares in a 2×2 shape.
Pudding Pagoda is a somewhat hard episode. It has two somewhat hard levels: 371 and 378, and four very hard levels: 367, 369, 370 and 380. Overall, it is easier than the previous episode, Fudge Islands.
Another view of Pudding Pagoda in the CCS television ad
Another view of Pudding Pagoda in the CCS television ad
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Trivia
This is the 2nd time an episode introduces something that makes a reference to the episode previous to it. The episode introduces cake bombs, cakes appeared in the background of Fudge Islands. The first one was chocolate which was introduced in Minty Meadow, the episode after Chocolate Mountains.
The Suzume character originated from Namco's NES game Suzume no Candy, Similar to SEGA's Columns.
This episode resembles Japan. The mountain at the back layer of the Godzilla and some pink trees resembles this episode as cherry blossoms. The three-story building resembles the green pagoda in the game. The red rails also match.
Even Neko is in Japanese clothes.
All levels in this episode contain cake bombs. Level 373 has 6 cake bombs which is the most of any level.
Some people consider levels 374-378 to be a Hell's Cluster. Its also the only quintuplet of hexagon levels in the game.
This episode contains levels 370 and 374, where millions of points can be achieved.
Like Sweet Surprise, this episode starts off with a hard level, 366.
This episode's pathway is the same as that of Biscuit Bungalow's.
Pudding Pagoda is seen in the background in Spicy Shop, but the Pagoda is red instead of green.
This episode was released on May 14, 2013. Gummy Gardens was released on May 14, 2014.