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christinewupp Posts: 8,604 Legend
January 19 in Discussions
Remember All Stars 2023 when some in the community were asking this very question: How many purple candies is it possible to make? The Pot of Gold event has given me the perfect opportunity to test this out for my game today.
So I decided to only play new levels to get my 13,000 purple candies. One game from level 561 to 710 on my latest login, the other at levels 5046-5162 on a different login. I set my stopwatch to see how long it would take me on each game to get to 13,000 purple. Here is the strangest finding:
It took me exactly 2 hours and 36 minutes on EACH of those two very different games. Exactly the same time....Now that might be a coincidence. Surely, it must be?
In the 500-700 range I played more levels, the yield per level was mostly 100-150 purple. In the 5000+ levels I played fewer levels, but some took longer to pass and I was able to make more than 200 on many levels, very few over 300, some had no purple at all though. But yes, regardless of the level range, level difficulty or if I was just rushing through the level or trying to play to draw the level out to make more purple, the result was pretty constant: 83 purple per minute on average.
As much as I tried, I was unable to make 400 or more purple on any single level at all! King must have put a stop to that: All the good cascade levels have changed to different colours, and for those that remain you invariably get such a lucky board that it self completes with 25 or even 35 moves left on the board! I did not find a single level that would not self destruct once it started cascading and I found no way to stop it from doing that. I can see why King have put a stop to the cascades, but it is sad none the less as it takes the fun out of the game for all of us.
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christinewupp Posts: 8,604 Legend
March 2
Here I go again. It's a great weekend to check out how many purple candies you can crush with any given strategy. Reward Hustle gives a count today for anyone why wishes to try. For some reason it doesn't have the 30x multiplier for new levels!!! Are King trying to test things out before All Stars...? Well I am.
I did the following tests yesterday with the purple warm up event.
Strategy 1: My preferred normal fast game play -
i.e Try to keep top win streak using CB + wrap/stripe starting boosters plus 3rd starting booster if appropriate on hard or worse levels, use other boosters/gold to play on sparingly, new levels only
Depending on episodes played they took between 22 and 29 minutes each, scoring 77- 98 purple per minute
Strategy 2: Speed through levels like there is no tomorrow
Using boosters (except Party poppers) liberally to pass levels as fast as I can: 18-19 minutes per episode, scoring 106-107 purple per minute
Strategy 3: Lock a 9x9/4 colour dragon level by trapping a dragon and play boosters for cascades on one level only
I finally found a suitable level for this yesterday and had a try. This requires lollipops and Party Poppers. I managed to score 2000 purple in 15 minutes on one single level, so only 133 purple per minute, about a quarter of what the experts can do with this method. I had to go slowly and think, as I hadn't tried this method before. I'd need a lot more practice with this one but am not sure I enjoy this method enough to bother with it. Also with a 30x multiplier I guess you'd have to use the Star Tournament for this, or maybe get to a suitable level at the right time and play on several devices. Success is also dependent on the amount of colour bombs the level drops for you, which seems to differ depending on where in the algorithms you are at (i.e. if this is your first, 4th or 11th attempt). There will definitely be players using this method in All Stars and I'm surprised King haven't removed all these levels....yet.
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