Tuesday 27 August 2013

Level 275

This is very simple to describe: HARDEST. LEVEL. EVER. Well, so far anyway.

A simple case of blast away the jelly it most certainly is not. Behind the two chocolate pieces in the top corners are bombs with a life of just THREE lives.

You have a few options in the way you deal with them: if you are lucky, you can match them or smash them using a rainbow (if you happen to have one and it's adjacent to the colour you need), but then another one will just appear against and you're fighting a losing battle. If you are really lucky, you will be able to move them away from the corner into a match position and leave a regular candy in their place, thus blocking the appearance of a new one. If you are really, really lucky, then a piece of chocolate will be created to cover them, and you will breathe a huge sigh of relief.

But really, the way to deal with them is to NOT deal with them, i.e. do your matches in a way that stays away from them as much as possible. That means no blasting away with rainbow+stripe or rainbow+wrapped. These risk opening up those bombs and then you are f*cked.

The way to win is to work the lower part of the board first, and slowly, gently use moves without too many side effects to clear away jelly. Just stripes are OK, but stay away from the edges and the top. The fish are a little bit helpful - sometimes they are kind enough to get those hard-to-clear jelly in the top corners - but again be careful not to match them with anything too powerful. Using rainbows to just clear one colour is also helpful. Then, when you only have a few pieces of jelly left, you can bring out some heavy artillery to get rid of the last bits. When you eventually do finish this, it will probably be with plenty of moves left. Until that time, you will get tantalisingly close, or think you have made a really good start when a cascading match opens up one of those bombs.

Scores
Difficulty: 10
Frustration: 10
Tease: 10

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