Sunday 18 August 2013

Level 258

Wow - this one is a killer. 35 moves to get rid of the bombs, but a further 10 moves to clear just 16 jellies. But oh such difficult ones, especially when bombs are gone and there's jelly just sitting there with no pieces near them to help you make matches.

I kept trying to get stripes in the edges of the central 'plus' section and match them to wipe out the jelly, but (a) this is really hard, (b) it doable in the bottom section but near impossible in the top, and (c) there just aren't enough moves.

In the end, it was a case of serendipity: I matched the fish with stripes, and then with wrapped candy. Lo and behold, they flew out to the jelly and wreaked far more damage - turning into stripes and wrapped respectively - and I was able to clear all the jelly.

So the way to win this is to not match the fish as soon as possible, but release them, then work stripes and wrappers near them, and only then match.

Scores
Difficulty: 8
Frustration: 7
Tease: 9

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