Candy Crush Saga is as sweet as the treats it showcases and just as addictive. It’s one of the best games to play when you’re bored. Originally a Bejeweled clone, it now competes for your attention and money on the internet, Facebook, and your devices.

Although Candy Crush is a freemium game, it can become an expensive habit. The developer, King, supports this free-to-play game through in-app purchases.

To reach the top of the leaderboards without spending much cash, you must use all the available Candy Crush cheats, tips, tricks, and strategies, which we’ve gathered here for you.

Candy Crush Saga Tips and Tricks

Candy Crush Saga becomes increasingly challenging as you progress to higher levels, and buying boosters can be very costly. To maximize your lives or acquire free lives in a pinch, we’ve gathered some of the best Candy Crush tips and tricks to help boost your scores.

1. Start your candy crushing at the bottom. Creating matches near the bottom of the level often triggers chain reactions that destroy more pieces and earn you many points. Matches at the top are unlikely to have the same effect.

2. Don’t follow suggestions blindly. If you don’t move for a while, the game will highlight a match by making the candies shake. This can be helpful, especially for new players, but don’t use these matches automatically. Often, you can find a better match on your own.

3. Try to think ahead when possible. Making every visible match without thought will lead to failure on harder levels. Examine the candy layout and plan your moves to create a color bomb or position pieces to clear jellies or other obstacles.

4. Learn how to make and use special candies. Matching three candies only clears those candies. However, matching four or five creates a special candy, which is crucial for defeating harder levels.

5. Look for combos, and use the best ones. Combos, like combining a color bomb with a striped candy, are highly effective. Maneuvering special candies together amplifies their benefits compared to using them separately.

6. Use and make striped candy the right way. Striped candies can have horizontal or vertical stripes. The swipe direction determines the stripe direction, clearing a line that matches the stripes.

7. Prioritize specific threats at each level. Avoid making random matches. Target specific threats like licorice or jelly first to avoid running out of moves before clearing the level. Prioritize chocolate if present.

8. Focus on edge jellies. Matches are harder to make on the edges, so prioritize clearing edge threats like jellies first.

9. Don’t move ingredients to the edges. Avoid moving ingredients to the edges since matches are harder there. Keep them in a column where they can drop onto a green arrow.

10. Understand how chocolate works, and deal with it first. Chocolate expands to more squares with every match that doesn’t clear it. Clear chocolate by matching candies directly above, below, or beside it. Use special candies like color bombs if necessary.

11. Look for extra time candies. When you spot candies with a +5 icon, include them in a match. These extra time candies appear in timed levels and add five extra seconds when matched.

12. Use your boosters sparingly. You earn boosters as you play or can purchase them. Save these powerful tools for challenging levels to ensure they’re available when needed.

13. Reshuffle especially difficult levels. While level layouts and goals are fixed, candy positions are random. If you dislike a level’s candy layout, you can restart without losing a life if no moves were made. This might provide better positioning.

14. Finish levels with extra moves left for more points. Finishing a level with moves left triggers jelly fish or striped candies, earning more points. More leftover moves increase the chance of a massive point cascade.

15. Set the date forward on your mobile device to get free lives.If you run out of lives on a mobile device, set the date forward one day to receive five additional lives.

Cheats in Candy Crush

While some cheat methods exist in Candy Crush, beware of services or programs promising hacks, free lives, boosters, or gold; these are usually scams.

Never download or sign up for untrustworthy services, even if they promise free lives or level skips. If these services work, King might ban your account, erasing your progress.

Crush the Basics of Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush is essentially a match-three game, where you match sets of at least three similar candies to destroy them and earn points. It’s easy to learn, but Candy Crush Saga adds complexity, so mastering the basics is crucial to overcoming tougher levels.

Beyond basic three-candy matches, specific combinations create powerful special candies instead of merely destroying candies. These special candies can help in tough situations.

Striped Candy

Striped candy is the simplest special candy to create.

• What it does: Clears an entire line vertically or horizontally..
• How to get it: Match four candies in a straight horizontal or vertical line.
• How to use it: Include the striped candy in a match to activate it.

Wrapped Candy

Wrapped candy excels at eliminating troublesome licorice.

• What it does: Destroys the eight surrounding candies.
• How to get it: Form an L or T shape with five matching candies.
• How to use it: Include the wrapped candy in a match to trigger it.

Color Bomb Candy

Color bomb candy can clear a significant portion of the level.

• What it does: Destroys every single piece of candy of one color.
• How to get it: Arrange five candies in a single horizontal or vertical line.
• How to use it: Swipe the color bomb onto any candy to destroy all candies of that color.

Watch for opportunities to create these patterns, making it easier to conquer challenging levels.

Take Control of Cool Candy Crushing Combos

Special candies aid in clearing tricky levels, and combining them creates even more potent effects.

Understanding what each combination does is crucial in maneuvering special candies into place to unleash massive combos.

The following are the best combos in Candy Crush and their effects:

• Striped Candy + Wrapped Candy: Clears three lines both horizontally and vertically, rather than a single line or just the surrounding eight candies.
• Striped Candy + Color Bomb: The second most potent combo; it transforms all candies matching the striped candy’s color into new striped candies, activating them simultaneously.
• Color Bomb + Color Bomb: The most powerful combo in the game clears every item on the level.

While these combos are less powerful, they can still be helpful:

• Color Bomb + Wrapped Candy: Transforms all candies matching the wrapped candy’s color into wrapped candies, causing them to explode simultaneously. It’s the weakest color bomb combo, yet stronger than a solo color bomb.
• Wrapped Candy + Wrapped Candy: Destroys eight surrounding candies, repeating the action after new candies settle.
• Striped Candy + Striped Candy: Clears a complete horizontal and vertical line.

With an understanding of special candies and their combinations, let’s explore how to create them.

How to Make Color Bombs

Color bombs are incredibly powerful; always be on the lookout for ways to create them. They’re not difficult to make, but they don’t often appear spontaneously.

1. Identify four candies of the same color, separated by one candy of a different color.

2. Move a fifth candy of the original color into position.

3. Swipe the fifth candy to bridge the gap, forming a five-candy match.

   Candies can align vertically or horizontally. This is the largest match achievable, resulting in its powerful effect.

How to Make Striped Candy

Striped candies are the simplest to create, yet remain extremely useful. You control their properties based on how they are made, adding a unique strategy element.

1. Find two candies of the same color together, with a third of the same color separated by one different candy.

2. Move a fourth candy of the original color into position.

3. Swipe the fourth candy to connect the match, forming a four-candy sequence.

How to Make Wrapped Candy

Wrapped candies require spotting specific patterns and are made by matching five candies in a T or L shape, similar to color bombs.

1. Identify four candies forming a T or L shape, interrupted by one candy of another color.

2. Move a fifth candy of the original color into position.

3. Swipe the fifth candy to create simultaneous horizontal and vertical matches of three candies each.

How to Cheat Time for Extra Lives in Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga grants only five lives, limiting play after five losses. You can purchase extra lives, pay for timed unlimited lives, or ask friends for more.

If you prefer not to pay and have asked friends, your only option is to stop playing and wait.

On Android or iOS, you can cheat by tricking the game into thinking time has passed without rooting, jailbreak your phone, or installing anything.

Steps vary slightly by device, but the main idea is to set the time forward one day.

Play Candy Crush until all lives are depleted.

Here’s how to get free lives in Candy Crush Saga:

1. Play Candy Crush, and run out of lives.

2. Access your phone’s Settings menu.

3. Navigate to Date and time.

4. Adjust the date forward by one day or modify the time zone.

   Changing the date temporarily may affect other apps and games. Consider this before using the cheat.

5. Open Candy Crush, and verify that you got five free lives.

6. Close Candy Crush without playing.

7. Reopen Time settings and restore the date (or time zone) to normal.

8. Open Candy Crush again, and you should still have your five free lives.