Candy Quest

1. How Matching Works

Candy Quest boards grow from 7×7 to 9×9 as you climb the 3,000 levels. Swap two adjacent candies; if the swap lines up 3 or more of one color in a row or column, they pop, survivors fall down, and fresh candies refill from the top — often chaining into cascades that multiply your score. Swaps that match nothing bounce back and never cost a move.

Every level hands you a shopping list (for example: 10 red, 10 yellow, 10 blue) plus a move budget. Collect every target before the counter hits zero. Leftover moves, cascades and special-candy blasts push your score toward the 2- and 3-star thresholds.

2. Forging Special Candies

• Striped (match 4): clears its entire row or column when detonated. Horizontal matches forge horizontal stripes and vice versa.
• Wrapped (L/T match): explodes twice into the surrounding 3×3 square — perfect for packed boards.
• Color Bomb (match 5): swap it with any candy to wipe every candy of that color; swap two bombs to clear the whole board.
• Jelly Fish (2×2 square): three gummy fish swim to clear 3 obstacle tiles or random candies when detonated.
• Coconut Wheel (match 6+): rolls across a row or column turning 3 candies into striped candy blasts.

Specials chain: any striped, wrapped or bomb caught in a blast detonates too. Set up crossings where one explosion feeds the next for board-wiping combos.

3. Mega Combinations (Section 8)

• Striped + Striped: cross-laser blast clearing an entire row AND column simultaneously.
• Striped + Wrapped: mega blast clearing 3 rows × 3 columns at once.
• Wrapped + Wrapped: devastating 5×5 double explosion in the center of the board.
• Bomb + Striped: turns ALL candies of that color into striped and fires every one!
• Bomb + Wrapped: turns ALL candies of that color into wrapped (3×3) and detonates them!
• Bomb + Bomb: wipes the ENTIRE board clear in one shot.
• Fish + Striped/Wrapped: 3 fish swim and detonate line blasts or 3×3 explosions at their targets.

4. Boosters & When to Spend Them

• Hammer: smashes one stubborn candy — save it for targets trapped far from matches.
• Swap: exchanges any two neighbours even without a match — use it to assemble a match-5.
• Lollipop: clears a whole color at once — best spent on your scarcest target color.
• Magic Hand: auto-plays the strongest available move when you cannot see one.

5. Three Habits of 3-Star Players

• Play low on the board. Matches near the bottom refill more of the grid and trigger longer cascades.
• Chase 4s and 5s, not 3s. A single striped candy outscores three plain matches once it detonates.
• Count your outs. With 5 moves left and 8 reds to go, stop building specials and farm red directly.

6. All Obstacles & Blockers

7. The 10-World Journey

Candy Quest is divided into 12 themed worlds. Each world unlocks new obstacles, keeps the same 6 candy types, and increases move pressure so levels stay fresh all the way to the final Infinity Citadel:

1. Candy Town (1–240) — Pure matching basics, jelly tiles intro
2. Candy Bridge (241–600) — Chocolate blockers appear
3. Lemonade Lake (601–1080) — Licorice cages scatter the board
4. Chocolate Mountains (1081–1680) — Ice blocks freeze the top rows
5. Bubblegum Bridge (1681–2400) — Toffee swirls clog the center
6. Minty Meadow (2401–3120) — Honey traps cluster the middle
7. Lollipop Forest (3121–3840) — Timer bombs debut, tight move budgets
8. Sugar Swamp (3841–4500) — Multiple obstacle types combine
9. Candy Clouds (4501–5100) — Near-full board obstacles
10. Rainbow Rapids (5101–5580) — Everything at maximum density
11. Cosmic Confection (5581–5820) — Hyper-speed cascades and combo gates
12. Infinity Citadel (5821–6000) — Grandmaster endgame matching challenges