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Earlier this week Candy Crush Saga celebrated its fifth birthday. The game is played all around the world by millions of people, games within the Candy Crush franchise have been downloaded almost three billion times!
Despite being five years old, Candy Crush Saga has retained its popularity and returned to the #1 position on the iOS and Android app stores in the US following a record-breaking third quarter. In addition, King has had two of the top 10 grossing games in the US for four consecutive years.
The brainchild of Sebastian Knutsson and a small team in Stockholm, the franchise’s inaugural game, Candy Crush Saga, was released on mobile in November 2012. There have been 1.1 trillion rounds of Candy Crush Saga played globally, which is the equivalent of every American playing two rounds a day, and there are over 2,800 levels and counting. Five years on, two other games have launched as part of the franchise, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Jelly Saga.
To mark the fifth anniversary, King has launched some in-game updates and given players the most powerful booster to date in the form of the birthdaylicious Party Booster. Designed to give that sweet winning feeling, players will receive two free party boosters giving a series of special, never-before-seen effects, removing all the candies from the board and damaging each blocker once. Secondly, when the board settles, the booster then goes on to release a further round of tasty treats – a striped candy, wrapped candy, Colourbomb and a fish. Each of these then explode immediately, further helping players to progress through the Candy Kingdom.
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Candy Crush Saga has been around for some years, but it continues to appear fresh for everyone. That is why new levels are released constantly so that players don’t get bored of it.
However, in these years we managed to learn a thing or two about this game and we are able to teach you some tips and tricks that should help you climb the leader board. Here is how you can improve your Candy Crush technique.
Create the striped candy that you want
You probably noticed that striped candies have two different versions: vertical and horizontal. The horizontal ones will clear the entire row, while the vertical candies will clear the entire column. However, you may not know that you can decide which candies will appear.
If you want to get a horizontal candy all you have to do is line four candies vertically, while if you want a vertical candy you will need to line four candies horizontally. Basically, they work the opposite way, so it should not be hard to remember. Now you will know how to control them and get the candies that you want.
Restart a level to get better combinations
You can usually tell if a game has many potential combinations as soon as you start a level. However, if you do not like the way candies are arranged you can easily restart the level in order to get a new arrangement. As long as you haven’t made any moves you can restart the level without losing any lifes.
This can be very useful since you can start a level only when you see candies that allow to create a striped candy for example, allowing you a small bonus.
Get unlimited lives
You might already know this, but it is possible to get unlimited lives. However, this only works on the app version, and it does not work if you are playing Candy Crush on Facebook. Here is what you have to do in order to get unlimited lives.
- If you have the Candy Crus application on your phone, close it.
- Then go to Settings and look for Date & Time. Open the menu and change it from automatic to manual.
- Now change the date, and set it for tomorrow.
- Open Candy Crush Saga and you should see that you have five lives.
- Start a level.
- Go back to Settings and set your Date & Time back to normal.
Learn the Candy Crush Saga combos
- You already know that if you combine special candies you will get a combo that is even more special. In some cases, they might not be useful, so you should know what each combo does. Here is a short list with them:
- Striped candy combined with another striped candy: This will clear a vertical and a horizontal line at once.
- Striped candy combined with color bomb: All the candies that match the striped candy’s color will turn into striped candies and then they will explode.
- Color bomb combined with another color bomb: This is one of the most powerful combinations and it will clear all the candies that appear on the screen.
- Wrapped candy combined with another wrapped candy: It will remove the adjoining candies twice.
- Wrapped candy combined with a color bomb: All the candies that match the color of the wrapped candy will transform into wrapped candies and then they will explode.
- Wrapped candy combined with striped candy: This combination will remove three lines horizontally and three vertically.
Certain combos are more effective than others, but each of them can be useful.
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48-year-old Swede Sebastian Knutsson co-founded King, the game studio best known for Candy Crush Saga. The wildly popular mobile game has made him a billionaire in terms of Swedish crowns with a net worth of SEK 2.9 billion.
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the update notes don't even bother mentioning the total. There are a lot. Now there are more. I think they avoid saying the number because while high numbers are impressive up to a certain point, if the number is too high it's intimidating. People like to feel like they could conceivably beat a game, and if you see there are 2,000 levels or something like that, you might not even bother starting. Anyway, I like to toss a King game in here now and then just to keep everything all fat and healthy, you know? And there isn't much to talk about in the actual update notes, so you get this kind of nonsense. Thanks for reading!
That about wraps it up for last week's significant updates. I'm sure I've missed some, though, so please feel free to comment below and let everyone know if you think something should be mentioned. As usual, major updates will likely get their own news stories throughout this week, and I'll be back next Monday to summarize and fill in the blanks. Have a great week!
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