Sugar Shrubs

This episode is hell! This episode is currently nearly impossible to beat without, or even with boosters. Most of the levels in this episode are very hard, extremely hard, or even nearly impossible to complete. This is mostly caused by buffs, which makes the episode dependent on extremely insane luck to complete. This episode is currently one of the hardest, if not the hardest episode in the game.

Flash HTML5 Background
Episode	114
World (Flash)	28
World (HTML5)	23
Levels	1686-1700
Characters	Mr. Yeti
Champion title	Biscuit Barber
New features	in in ( + ) in other level types in other level types Unsettled Semi-spawning blocker orders Semi-spawning order
Release date	- 27 April 2016  - 11 May 2016
Difficulty	Nearly Impossible
Previous	Next

Sugar Shrubs is the 114th episode in Candy Crush Saga and the fourth episode of World 23 (HTML5). This episode was released on 27 April 2016. The champion title for this episode is Biscuit Barber.

Story

Tiffi combs Mr. Yeti's fur to make it detangled.

New things

• Mixed Mode levels () were officially introduced in level 1688, now currently level 216. In this case, it is the combination of the jelly and ingredients levels. Therefore, it is the first time when ingredients can occupy the same square as a jelly, as well as the first time when jelly appears outside of jelly levels and ingredients appear outside of ingredients levels.
• Unsettled licorice swirls appear at the start for the first time in level 1689.
• Level 1696 is officially (since the first iteration of Level 1611, where non-spawning blocker orders were introduced) the first level with a "semi-spawning" blocker order. A semi-spawning blocker order is one that requires a blocker that appears on the starting board, but not enough of it appears to complete the order. Therefore lucky candies are required to complete a blocker order even though the blocker appears on the board. Levels where the blocker spawns from cannons, magic mixers, or chocolate fountains don't count as semi-spawning blocker orders, it only counts if lucky candies are the only method of spawning the remaining quantity of the blocker.
  • In this case, it's a semi-spawning frosting order; 33 frosting layers are required, 25 layers appear on the starting board, the other 8 layers can only be gotten from lucky candies.

Levels

This episode contains levels 1686-1700.

Sugar Shrubs is a nearly impossible episode, with a mean of 7. It contains four very hard levels: 1687, 1692, 1695, and 1700, five extremely hard levels: 1686, 1689, 1691, 1697, and 1699, and two nearly impossible levels: 1688 and 1698. Therefore, it is of the same difficulty as the previous episode, Taffy Treetops.

2	2	5	6

The easiest : Level 1694

The hardest : Level 1688

4	5
7	8

Sugar Drop levels
Level 1688	Level 1693	Level 1697

Hexagon levels
Level 1686	Level 1688	Level 1691	Level 1693	Level 1696	Level 1697	Level 1698

 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	0	2	1	1	4	5	2	0

	Level	Type	Moves	Target score	Goal	Walkthrough	Remarks
	1686			49,000	: 49
	1687			20,000	: 2
	1688			180,000	: 81 : 2
	1689			50,000	: 10
	1690			100,000	: 56 : 3
	1691			30,000	: 60   : 5   : 10
	1692			100,000	: 73
	1693			40,000	: 1
	1694			55,000	: 14
	1695			80,000	: 10   : 25 : 5
	1696			20,000	: 33
	1697			40,000	: 51 : 1
	1698			200,000	: 20   : 46 : 4
	1699			10,000	: 62   : 14
	1700			78,000	: 28 : 2

Gallery

• Story
• Levels
• Champion title
• Icon
• Past versions

Episode story

Level 1686 -

Level 1687 -

Level 1688 -

Level 1689 - (Before candies settle)

Level 1689 - (After candies settle)

Level 1690

Level 1691 -

Level 1692 -

Level 1693 -

Level 1694 -

Level 1695 -

Level 1696 -

Level 1697 -

Level 1698 -

Level 1699 -

Level 1700 - (Before candies settle)

Level 1700 - (After candies settle)

Champion title

Episode 114 completed! (Mobile)

Episode icon

Pre-2017 HTML5 map

Trivia

• The background looks similar to that of Fungi Forest.
• This is the second episode with a level which is an episode finale, world finale and multiple of 100 (which is level 1700). Oddly, it is the first mixed level to be a multiple of 100, even though it was just introduced. The first is Fudge Fjord, which is prior to level 800.
• This is the first episode with mixed levels in the entire game. Therefore, it is the first episode to officially introduce a new level type since Candy Factory, 112 episodes prior.
• Candy Order levels are more in number than jelly and ingredients levels, something that is very rare.
• This episode contained an extremely hard opener, before the nerf of level 1686.
• This episode shares its first word with Sugar Shacks.