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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.

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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.

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Study the board for a moment before beginning. Notice that there are three different gameplay areas — two small ones on the left and a larger one on the right — divided by teleportation lines. The candy follows a predictable path as it moves through the level:

• First, candy appears in the bottom left area.
• Next, as pieces are cleared, candy moves through the bottom left area and falls into the board on the right.
• Finally, the candy moves through the the top left board before exiting.
• Thus, the "bottom" of the board is actually the bottom of the top left area — somewhat confusing!

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Understand how clearing pieces causes the rest to fall. Since you have a limited number of turns at your disposal, it's important to make every move count. This means making the most of the teleports to move your ingredients towards the exits in the top left.

• Clearing candies in the bottom left area will make only the candies above them in the bottom left area move.
• Clearing candies in the right area will make the candies above them in the right area and the candies in the bottom left area move.
• Clearing candies in the top left area will make the candies above them in the top left area, the candies in the top right area, and the candies in the bottom left area move.
• Thus, making matches in the top left area is often the most effective way to get your ingredients closer to the exit.

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Understand how special candies are affected by the teleports. If you haven't dealt with special candies and teleports before, you may have a few factors to consider in this level. See below:

• Striped candies and wrapped/striped combos won't work through a teleport. In other words, if you set off a vertical striped candy in the bottom left area, it will hit candies in the two left areas, but not any on the right.
• Wrapped candies won't fall through teleports unless the candies "underneath" them on the other side get cleared for some other reason. In other words, if you set off a wrapped candy in the bottom row of the right area, it will clear the candies around it, but it won't fall into the top left area.
• Color bombs work normally.

The tips in this section don't have to do with playing the game itself, but aren't generally considered cheating. Feel free to ignore this section if you wish — your gameplay experience won't be effected.

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Reset the stage until you get a good layout. This trick works for the mobile version of the game, not the browser version. If you start the level and you don't see any good moves, stop. Before you make any moves, hit the "back" button on your phone, and, if prompted about whether you truly want to exit, tap "yes." You should be back on the map screen. Re-enter the level and you'll have a different random assortment of blocks, but you'll still have the same number of lives! Use this to your advantage by resetting until you get a favorable selection of blocks at the start of the level (like, for instance, an easy setup for a vertical striped candy on the right side of the board.)

• To be clear: you can reset the board by backing out of the level without making any moves and entering it again. This costs no lives. However, once you make a move, it will cost you a life to reset the level.

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Consider starting with a booster you've previously earned. If you've been using the Daily Booster Wheel, you will probably have at least a few boosters saved up. On level 77, you can use three: striped and wrapped candies, jellyfish, and color bomb. Each will give you an advantage — see below for more information.

• Striped and wrapped candies: if you get a vertical striped candy, you'll be able to use it to hit the middle section. If your striped and wrapped candies drop near to each other, you can even combine them to get a valuable wrapped/striped combo.
• jellyfish: arguably the best choice for this level. jellyfish automatically clear three jelly squares at random. Since some of the jelly squares in this level can be hard to hit, this can be very valuable. A smart strategy is to save your fish until the end of the level so that they'll have a better chance of hitting the squares you want them to.^[3]
• Color bomb: See the information on color bombs above. These can be valuable if there are lots of candies in the middle that are the same color.

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Watch gameplay videos of level 77. It's one thing to read about ways to beat level 77 — seeing these tips and tricks in action can make them much easier to grasp. Luckily, there are dozens of helpful videos out there full of tips for beating level 77 (and virtually every other difficult Candy Crush Saga level.)

• One such video is provided below — others are easy to find on YouTube and other streaming sites.

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Don't waste time trying to get new blocks in the center section. It's important to note that there are no teleportation panels at the top or bottom of any of the squares in the middle section. This means that clearing candies anywhere outside of the middle section won't effect the candies in the middle. The only way to get new candies in the middle is by clearing candies there either directly or with a striped candy, wrapped/striped combo, or striped/striped combo.

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Don't use wrapped candies except for striped/wrapped combos. On their own, wrapped candies are useless in this level — their explosion range isn't big enough to affect the middle section where the jelly and chocolate are. Thus, you won't want to waste moves making them unless you plan to use them in a wrapped/striped combo or use them to trigger a vertical striped candy.

• However, in the rare even that you can get a wrapped/wrapped combo, use it! The massive explosion radius should be able to hit a large area of the middle section at least once (unless you trigger it at the bottom of the board.)

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Don't let the chocolate get out of control. Once the chocolate spreads throughout the middle section, it can be very hard to finish the level, since this essentially adds another layer that you need to "break" through before you can start clearing jelly. Your best bet is to keep the chocolate from spreading until you have a vertical stripe or two ready to deal with it.

• This means that you shouldn't break the locked square before you're ready to clear the chocolate. You can clear jelly on the left and you should clear the chocolate on the right before you hit the lock, but once the lock is broken, you need to be ready to clear the chocolate right away or you may find yourself in a very difficult situation.

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Don't forget about the point limit. Nothing is more crushing than clearing all of the jelly in this level only to fail because you haven't gotten enough points. Though the one-star marker is positioned fairly low on the point meter, it's still possible to finish the level without the 50,000 points needed to reach it, so pay attention to the points you're accumulating throughout the level.

• Keep in mind that, since you get a point bonus for each unused turn at the end of the level, it's almost always best to finish early, rather than waste turns trying to set up massive combos.

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Prioritize vertical striped candies. The major difficulty in this level is that the spaces you have the most control over — the ones at the top and bottom — aren't the ones that you have jelly in them. Since the middle section isn't connected to the rest of the board, use the top and bottom of the board to your advantage by making vertical striped candies whenever you get the chance.

• Keep in mind that vertical striped candies are made by making horizontal rows of four. Making vertical rows of four will give you horizontal striped candies, which aren't very useful on this board because they can't hit the middle section.^[1][2]
• Note that there are nine spaces in the center section, each containing two-layer jelly. That's 18 squares of jelly total that you need to clear — since you only have 25 turns to work with, if you were to only use vertical striped candy, you'd need to use one on all but seven turns (on the correct spaces, no less!) This isn't realistic — it's much easier to win if you also work on getting some super combos.

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Use wrapped/striped combos to hit the middle section. Combinations of wrapped and striped candies are your most useful assets on this stage. These combos clear three rows and three columns in a large "cross" pattern, which means that they can hit three jelly spaces in the middle at a time. Unfortunately, it can take several moves to set up a wrapped/striped combo, so don't waste moves going for these if you're running short on time.

• One of the best possible moves you can make on this level is to trigger a wrapped/striped combo on the right side of the board near the beginning of the game. If you align it correctly, you can clear the chocolate and the locked square in a single turn. Not bad!
• Keep in mind that wrapped/striped combos fire on the square that you swap to, not the first square you touch.

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If you can, focus on the chocolate first. The chocolate that starts at the right side of the middle section is your number one enemy in this level. If you don't deal with it as soon as it starts spreading, it can quickly devour the whole middle section, making it very difficult to beat the level. For this reason, it's best to clear the chocolate with a few vertical striped candies or a wrapped/striped combo as soon as you can.

• Try to clear the chocolate before you even break the locked block. While it's possible to clear the chocolate once it's started to spread, this is almost always more difficult and time-consuming.
• Keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to hit the chocolate itself: clearing a candy (but not a locked space, etc.) next to a chocolate square will clear the chocolate.

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Don't forget to look for combinations in the middle section. While it's good to look for vertical striped candies and wrapped/striped combos on the top and bottom of the board, don't forget that you'll sometimes get combos in the middle section of the board as well. In fact, in terms of moving you towards your goal, getting a single horizontal three-in-a-row in the middle is just as valuable as a wrapped/striped combo (and uses less moves to execute!) Thus, you'll always want to give the middle a quick glance at the start of your turn to see if there are any good moves before moving on to the outer sections.

• In fact, if you can form two three-in-a-rows in a single turn (somewhat rare but perfectly possible), you can clear six jelly spaces at once. That's twice as many as you'd clear with a wrapped/striped combo in a fraction of the number of moves you'd use, so don't pass these opportunities up!

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Use color bombs if many jelly squares are the same color. Color bombs — formed by getting five candies of the same color in a row — can be useful in certain situations, but aren't essential, so think before making them. If you see that you can form a color bomb in one turn and use it to clear a color that appears in the middle row often on the next turn, it's probably worth it.

• On the other hand, if it would take many turns to make a color bomb and use it effectively, it may be a better use of your time to search for alternative moves.

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If you have no other moves, clear candy near the bottom of the board. If you don't have any productive moves to make on your turn at all, it's almost always better for you to clear candy at the bottom of the board than it is to clear candy at the top. This is because when you clear candy at the bottom, there are more candies above it that shift, increasing the chance that a cascade will occur. This in turn increases the chance that you'll get a special candy (and, even if you don't, you'll still get more points from the cascade effect.)

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Know your candies. It is not enough that you know the basics of swapping these colored candies; you should also know what will happen if you align 4 or even 5 candies of the same color. Knowing the “power” of these power-up candies will make a huge difference on your success in clearing Candy Crush Saga levels.

• The striped candies will clear all candies on its alignment when swapped with a normal candy. This depends on which direction you produced the striped candy. If you created the striped candy while adding the 4th candy horizontally, it will have horizontal stripes. If vertically added, it will have vertical stripes.
• The wrapped candy can be produced by creating two 3-match combination in just a single move. Swapping the wrapped candy with a normal candy will destroy all the immediate candies surrounding it.
• The most powerful power-up candy of all is the color bomb. This can be produced by aligning 5 candies of the same color. When swapped with a normal candy, it virtually destroys all the candies in the scene which shares the same color as the swapped candy.

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Look out for combos. There is nothing more than satisfying than watching a bunch of candies getting cleared with combos in just a single move. Doing so just requires your knowledge in power-up candy combinations.

• Swapping striped candies will result to clearance of candies horizontally and vertically regardless of their stripes’ orientation.
• Swapping wrapped candies will result into a 5 by 5 explosion of candies surrounding it.
• Swapping color bombs will literally destroy all the visible candies in the play area.
• Swapping a striped candy with a wrapped candy will result into a super candy clearing 3 rows/columns of the candies both horizontally and vertically.
• Swapping a striped candy with a color bomb, it will upgrade all the candies with the same color as the striped candy to actual striped candies that will all detonate at once.
• Swapping a wrapped candy with a color bomb, it will clear all the candies on the same color as the wrapped candy and a random colored candy mass clearance as a bonus.

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Know the objective. Sometimes we get too busy creating combinations that we forget what the main goal of a level is. It's obviously not always about reaching the highest score. There are different kinds of winning conditions in Candy Crush Saga.

• Moves levels. The condition simply indicates that you should meet an allotted score before you run out of moves.
• Jelly levels. These tricky levels require you to clear all the jellies in the level to proceed. A classic example of it’s not always about just clearing candies.
• Timed levels. These levels will really require your strategy and combination prowess in playing. You prevent bombs to detonate by making candy combinations near them. When the bomb reaches zero – it’s game over for you.
• Ingredient Drop levels. Your objective on these levels is to successfully drop the required number of ingredients to the bottom part of the play area before you run out of moves.
• Candy Order levels. It is a collection level requiring you to collect certain colored candies, special candies, or combinations to proceed.

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Prioritize bottom combinations. Simple logic for this move is because most of the times, especially during limited moves, clearing candies at the bottom create additional combinations while the candies collapse. Of course, this is no guarantee but very high in probability.

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Look out for threats. Threats such as chocolates and bombs should be prioritized more than anything else. If you don’t take care of the chocolates, it will rapidly consume the candies in your play area. This will make clearing candies tougher for you. With bombs, simple enough, if you let the bomb detonate, the level instantly goes to failure.

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Deal with hard to reach jellies. Out of reach jellies and those on the play area’s edge are the jellies you should focus on clearing first. Once you clear these jellies, the middle jellies will surely be affected in the process. Besides, they are much easier to clear compared to those located on the edges.

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Don’t rush it. Even in times where you have time limit, make sure not to rush the level resulting to poor decisions. Remember, you can always pause the game and take a break and evaluate the scenario. Especially if you have power up candies – make sure you use them appropriately!

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Back-out and re-enter. Upon entering a level and you noticed an unfavorable candy positioning, without making a single move yet, you can back-out of that level and re-enter without costing a life. You can do this until you find the initial positioning of the candies favorable to you.

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Help friends. If you have Facebook friends that need additional lives and you can help – by all means, do so. This generosity will be very useful when it is your time to ask for favor such as requesting additional lives or proceeding to the next location in the map that requires friends’ help.

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Purchase is an option. Candy Crush Saga has some extra items that could actually purchase to help you clear levels. Mind you, these items and boosters are not for free so think very carefully before deciding to purchase anything. Besides, the challenge is to clear levels with just what is provided by the game alone. That’s where real satisfaction sets in.

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Advance time. In times you already used all your lives and prompted to wait 24 hours to replenish, you can always just adjust your device’s time to “cheat” the system. Adding an additional day to your time will result into 5 fresh lives! Just don’t forget to re-adjust your time after playing. But be warned, doing this technique will cause your next legal wait to an absurd amount of time.

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Eliminate complicated or dangerous candies from the board first. There are some tiles, like bombs or chocolate, which should always be eliminated first if they exist on the board these will inhibit your progress or cause you to lose. Bombs end the game is not eliminated in the move limit specified on their face, while chocolate will multiply if not destroyed

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Pay attention to the edges of the game board. You will have many levels where the game board is not a perfect rectangle, or includes a number of gaps in the board. You will need to plan around these gaps and they can make it incredibly difficult to make paired sets.

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Reshuffle the board if it looks too challenging. Once you become better acquainted with the game, you will be able to tell when a game board will be too difficult to complete. You can reshuffle the board using boosters or by exiting the game before you do any moves.

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Get your friends to play the game. The best strategy to progress in the game is to get your friends to play. It is a social game and there will be a variety of benefits to having your friends play. Friends can give you boosters, the tickets needed to progress through the levels, as well as a variety of other benefits.

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Largely ignore the suggestions the game makes. The game will make move suggestions if you idle for too long. These suggestions are random and it will usually be in your best interest to ignore them. If you don’t have a time limit, take the time to find out if there is a better move available. If you are only trying to increase points before a time limit runs out, take the game’s suggestion.

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Get familiar with the game board. When you start a game, you will see the game board in front of you, covered in candies. Notice how the candies sit in specific places and the area behind them is kind of gray? The grey area where the candies sit is the game board. You will only be able to move candies in those areas (which means if there is a hole in the game board, you cannot move candies across it).

• You will also see your bonuses at the top (discussed below), and your target score for that particular game.
• Below or to the side, you will see Moves with a number. This is the number of actions you are allowed to take before the game ends. The game ends not when you reach a particular score but either when you run out of moves or you accomplish the goal of the individual game.
• You will also see a score progress bar. Every time you crush candies (as discussed below), you’ll earn points. These points will help you progress through the levels. If you do not earn enough points over the course of completing a level, you will lose a life. Lose all five lives and you’ll be forced to either wait until your lives refill or edit the Settings. Lives can be viewed on the larger game screen, where your progress through the levels is shown.

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Match sets of 3 or more candies. The game is played by swiping candies, in any direction (so long as it is not blocked), to create sets of 3 or more matching candies. When matched, the candies will crush and shift the candies above them, allowing you to accomplish a series of different goals. If you create sets greater than 3, you will create candy combinations. These are powerful candy crushing machines which work in a variety of ways.

• If you match four candies, a special candy will be created which will burst an entire row if matched as part of another set of 3 or more.
• If you match 5 or more candies in a T or L shape, you will create a wrapped candy. These explode the square of candies surrounding that tile (when matched) and then explode a subsequent 3x3 block wherever they settle.
• If you match 5 candies in a single row, you’ll create color bombs. These look like balls of chocolate covered in sprinkles. These will crush all candies on the board of the same color as the candy you swap them with. They do not need to be merged into a set of three. Choose which color they crush wisely.
• You can also match any two special candies with each other. This will produce a variety of effects. Combining striped and wrapped candies and stripes and color bombs are especially productive, as this will clear a large number of candies.

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Use your boosters. You can earn a few of the boosters in the beginning of the game. You can also purchase most boosters within the game using actual money. These can help you win a level when you’re too frustrated or unable to continue. Be careful how you use them, however, as you never know when you’ll need one. Be strategic.

• There are boosters which add moves, the lollipop hammer (which crushes the desired candy on the board), shuffle candy (which will rearrange the board), among a number of other boosters. They should be explained as you earn them, though almost all you will have to buy.

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Reach the set goal in the game. Each level will have a set goal. This can be reaching a specific number of points, destroying a specific set of tiles (jelly-covered tiles), or other goals like forcing items to fall to the bottom.

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Progress through the levels. You will play a series of games, each with a different game board and many with different goals, which will progress you across the levels. The game is split into sections of 15 levels. In order to progress to the next section of level you will have to acquire tickets (3, to be exact). These can be given by your friends who play Candy Crush or you will need to purchase them.

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