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Focus on the second and third areas. You only have 33 turns on this level. That may seem like a lot, but if you're not careful, you can easily find yourself left with just a few turns left and multiple ingredients left on the board. Luckily, the areas on the right side of the stage and (especially) the top left side of the stage will move a lot more candy than clearing in the bottom left area, helping you to make the most of your moves.
- For example, if you have one cherry on the board in the far right column of the bottom left area and you don't have any great combinations on the board to make specials, try clearing candies in the far right row of either the area on the right or the area in the top left so that your cherry will at least make progress towards the exit.
- There are, however, exceptions to this rule. For instance, it's often worth it to get a special candy even if this doesn't clear candy underneath your ingredients (especially if this special can knock one or more ingredients off the board.)
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Bring ingredients to the exit quickly to drop more ingredients. On most ingredients levels, new ingredients usually enter the level when the ones that are on the board are cleared (though they will sometimes drop seemingly at random — the Candy Crush community has not determined exactly what will consistently trigger the release of a new ingredient.)[1] Level 76 is no exception. This means that it's in your interest to clear each cherry as quickly as possible — the next one won't show up until you deal with the one you already have.
3
Use vertical striped candy on the left side of the board. Used correctly, vertical striped candies can help get your cherries those crucial last few spaces to the exit. Try to set off vertical striped candies on either of the areas on the left side of the screen so that they're lined up with your cherries — since they'll hit all of the candies in one of the top left columns, they can move your cherries up to four spaces towards the exit.
- For instance, let's say that you have a cherry in the second row of the right area. If you can fire a vertical stripe candy in the second row of either of the areas on the left, your cherry will move four spaces towards the exit — not bad.
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Try to set off wrapped candies in the top left area. Wrapped candies can be a huge help in this level if you're able to maneuver them into the top left area. Since they clear a 3 x 3 square twice, setting one off in the right place can move your candy up to six squares towards the exit, which is quite good.
- Though rare, a wrapped/wrapped combo in the top left area is even better. Since the 5 x 5 explosion will clear most of the entire top left area twice, any cherries on the board can potentially move up to eight spaces towards the exit.[2] This will often be enough to clear them off the board entirely.
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Keep ingredients in the middle of the board, away from the edges. Though this isn't a hard and fast rule, opportunities for moving the ingredients into the two center columns and away from the edges are things you should keep an eye out for. This provides you with the most possible combinations for keeping the ingredients moving downwards and off the board since the middle two columns have candies on both side to make moves with rather than just one side.
- It's also a good to get into the habit of moving ingredients away from the edges of the level. Though it isn't absolutely essential here, on future ingredients levels it can be easy to accidentally drop ingredients into corners that they are very tough to get out of, so make a point early to keep them moving towards the center.
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Shoot for a striped/wrapped combo. When you mix a striped candy and a wrapped candy, you'll create a combo which clears three rows and three columns in a cross pattern. This can be very useful on this particular game board, especially if you're luck enough to hit the candies in the top left area with it. However, this needs to be done as quickly as possible, so as not to use up moves.
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Shoot for a color bomb/striped combo. Perhaps the single most useful combo you can get in this level (besides the extra-rare color bomb/color bomb combo) is to combine a color bomb and a striped candy. This will create random striped candies all over the board on the candies that are the same color as the striped candy you used. Generally, this will clear most if not all of the board very quickly, which often means you'll clear one or more cherries off the board in a single move.
