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Candy Crush Secrets you have to see.

It seems that the hot mobile game right now is Candy Crush Saga by King. The game is free to download on the App Store and Android Market. A few of my co-workers play it, talk about how they’re at such and such level with three stars on all previous boards, so I thought I should try it out. No harm in a free game, right?

If you’ve ever played any of the Bejeweled games, you should know what to expect here. Candy Crush Saga is your typical “match three” puzzle game that has become so overdone that I wonder why anyone still bothers to make them. The one added twist in this game is that each level comes with a specific goal or challenge that you must meet to proceed. So far I’ve encountered three of these: obtain a certain score, clear the “jelly” off the board by making matches inside of it, and move ingredients to the bottom of the board. Unless stated otherwise, all of these challenges must be completed in a set number of moves (some of them have a time limit instead). Sounds simple enough, but once you dive a little deeper in, the evil of this game truly rears its ugly head.

You start your journey into… wherever you are (the game has an attempt at a story that quite frankly I don’t understand at all) with five lives. Every time you fail to complete a level, you lose a life. Run out of lives, and it’s sort of a game over. You have three options once you are out of lives. You can:

A) Wait out a timer that will give you one life per cycle. Usually the wait isn’t too bad, the most I’ve had to endure is 20 minutes per life.
B) Send some of your Facebook friends a request for them to give you lives. I’m not sure how this works; since I hate getting game requests on Facebook I feel bad burdening my friends with them.

C) Instantly buy five lives for $0.99.

See the bold? There’s where the satisfaction of getting a game for free ends. The game is only free if you have lots of patience and don’t mind harassing your friends on Facebook. In fact, there are a good number of microtransactions in Candy Crush Saga that are almost as infuriating as the game’s surprisingly steep difficulty. Failed a level and want more moves? 99 cents. Need lives and don’t have the patience to wait out the clock or your friends? 99 cents. Want a power-up? 99 cents. Want a permanent boost to the number of lives you can have at any given time? How does $16.99 move you? There’s another permanent power-up that will cost you a whopping $39.99 to get your hands on. I don’t know about you, but $16.99 to give myself three more chances to pass a stupidly difficult level before inevitably buying more lives is nothing short of diabolical.

But i said to my self there has to be a way to move up faster then the way i was going. Then i found this, but keep it a secrete from your friends and only show them when you have smoked them. Have fun, I sure did.

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Marko Cortez