Candies are the main item in Candy Crush Saga. Candies come in six colours; match at least three of them with the same colour in a line to clear them for points. There are special candies, which are created by forming special configurations, and other special candies that appear on later levels but can't be created. Each one has its effect.
Clearing candies in certain positions will also clear blockers, so you can open up the board and make gameplay easier.
Regular candies[]
These make up most of the game. Get at least 3 or more candies of the same colour in a row to clear them and turn them into points.
The six different colours and shapes are:
Image | Colour | Appearance |
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Red | Jelly Bean | |
Orange | Lozenge | |
Yellow | Lemon Drop | |
Green | Gum Square | |
Blue | Lollipop Head | |
Purple | Jujube Cluster |
Event-exclusive candies[]
These candies and candy variants appeared only during events. Get at least 3 or more candies of the same colour in a row to clear them and turn them into points.
The event exclusive colours and shapes are (note: this list is outdated):
Image | Colour | Appearance | Date Started | Date Ended |
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Orange (Special) | Carved Pumpkin (v1) | 28 October 2020 | 2 November 2020 | |
Purple (Special) | Heart | 2 February 2021
23 September 2021 (Outside USA) |
16 February 2021
17 October 2021 (Outside USA) | |
Blue (Special) | Easter Egg | 17 April 2021 | 24 April 2021 | |
Green (Special) | Puzzle Piece | 6 June 2021 | 20 June 2021 | |
Orange (Special) | Basketball | 6 July 2021 | 18 July 2021 | |
Blue (Special) | Water Drop | 19 July 2021 | 25 July 2021 | |
Purple (Special) | Weightlifting | 26 July 2021 | 1 August 2021 | |
Green (Special) | Bicycle | 2 August 2021 | 8 August 2021 | |
Orange (Special) | Marathon Track | 9 August 2021 | 15 August 2021 | |
Orange (Special) | Star | 23 September 2021 (USA Only) | 17 October 2021 (USA Only) | |
Orange (Special) | Carved Pumpkin (v2) | 18 October 2021 | Present | |
Orange (Special) | Jalebi | Unknown | Unknown | |
Green (Special) | Chocolate Mochi | Unknown | Unknown | |
Blue (Special) | Macaron | Unknown | Unknown | |
Purple (Special) | Donut | November 3, 2021 | November 8, 2021 | |
Blue (Special) | Ice Skate | February 10, 2022 | March 6, 2022 | |
Blue (Special) | Sonic Ball | March 29, 2022 | April 3, 2022 | |
Orange (Special) | Egg | April 15, 2022 | April 20, 2022 | |
Green (Special) | Chocolate Mochi | March 3, 2023 | March 6, 2023 |
Special candies[]
Special Candy | Image | Info |
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Striped Candy |
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Wrapped Candy |
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Colour Bomb |
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Jelly Fish |
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Coconut Wheel |
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Lucky Candy |
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Other candies[]
Candy | Image | Info |
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Mystery Candy (retired) |
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Chameleon Candy (retired) |
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Extra Moves Candy (retired) |
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Extra Time Candy (retired) |
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Combinations[]
Special candies can be combined to produce special amplified effects. (Note: The video does not show combinations with Special Candies - Jelly Fish, Coconut Wheel, and Lucky Candy.)
Candy A | Candy B | Effects | Difficulty | |
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Striped Candy | Striped Candy | Activates a Striped Candy in the direction of the swipe, and a perpendicular Striped Candy on the position at the end of the swipe (even if the directions on the candies are the same). | Medium | |
Striped Candy | Wrapped Candy |
Becomes a "giant striped candy" and clears 3 rows and 3 columns in a cross formation centred at the end of the swipe. |
Somewhat Hard | |
Striped Candy | Colour Bomb | Transforms all candies (including special candies as well) of that colour to Striped Candy, then activates them all. | Hard | |
Striped Candy | Jelly Fish | Creates 3 striped fish, which convert any eaten candy into Striped Candies and activates them. | Variable | |
Striped Candy | Coconut Wheel | Causes the Coconut Wheel to warp around the screen, reappearing on the other side, going in the same direction. It converts three candies to Striped Candies, then reappears, turning another three candies into Striped Candies and activates them. | Variable | |
Wrapped Candy | Wrapped Candy | A mass explosion created. Clears 24 candies (5×5 grid) around each Wrapped Candy, and causes all other candies to appear to be pushed back by the blasts. | Hard | |
Wrapped Candy | Colour Bomb | Former: Activates the Colour Bomb twice, the second colour selected is the most abundant.
Current (as of Taffy Treetops): Every candy of swapped wrapped candy's colour into a wrapped candy and activates all of them, just like in Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Jelly Saga. |
Very Hard | |
Wrapped Candy | Jelly Fish | Creates 3 wrapped jelly fish which convert any eaten candy into Wrapped Candy. | Variable | |
Wrapped Candy | Coconut Wheel | Causes the Coconut Wheel to warp around the screen, reappearing on the other side, going in the same direction. Converts a whole row/column of candies into Wrapped Candies. | Variable | |
Colour Bomb | Colour Bomb | Clears the entire board of candies. Affects every blocker now except for sugar chests and chocolate fountains. | Extremely Hard | |
Colour Bomb | Jelly Fish | Former: Creates 3 colour bomb jelly fish, which convert any eaten candy into another jelly fish and activates them.
Current (since late 2019): Transforms all candies (including special candies as well) of that colour to Jelly fish and activate them. These fish do not split. |
Variable | |
Colour Bomb | Coconut Wheel | Converts a whole row/column of candies into Striped Candy and activates them. This effect is the same with a Coconut Wheel to Coconut Wheel combination. | Variable | |
Jelly Fish | Jelly Fish | Nothing happens. Not a move | Impossible | |
Coconut Wheel | Coconut Wheel | Converts the entire row or column to Striped Candy then does it again after they all have been activated. The Striped Candy always faces the opposite way. | Variable | |
Jelly Fish | Coconut Wheel | Nothing happens. Not a move | Impossible |
Poll[]
Trivia[]
- The default colour order is blue, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow. As such, green and blue candies were the only candies to never be left out of a level. The colours are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively.
- Green candies are the only candies to have never been left out throughout the game. However, 3455 was a 1-coloured candy order level, featuring only blue candies. Since it caused infinite cascades due to lack of liquorice swirls after the level, it was changed to a 2-colour level.
- Blue candies also appear in every level. However, on HTML5, they were left out in 289 before they unified the candy colour formation with Flash.
- As two and one colour levels didn't exist at that time, red candies used to appear in every level in old HTML5. Yellow candies didn't appear in ordinary 3-colour levels such as 31 and 587, and on some cases, a 5-colour level like level 146, and a 4-colour level like level 289.
- All 5 colour levels exclude yellow candies. Before, the old HTML5 version usually excluded purple candies instead, except on special cases.
- All 4 colour levels exclude yellow and red candies. Before, the old HTML5 version usually excluded purple and orange candies instead. An exception is old 615, whose colour pattern was red, green, blue and purple.
- Candies can sometimes cause sliding. This can be observed in level 1641, where you can see the number 111 (this refers to Episode 111). After that, the player gets at least 5000 points without any moves being made.
- Later levels have less than four candy colours. Level 2595 is the first level with just two colours, the minimum possible (except for a few promotional levels). 3455 featured only one colour, but was changed to featuring two colours.
- One of the two-colour levels even has a "nearly impossible" difficulty, but not one is lower than "hard".
- Currently, jelly drop down mixed level along with rainbow rapids mixed levels is the only level type to have no two-colour levels.
- In Glazed Grove, Tiffi feeds Freddie up with some red candies.
- In Nocturnal Nuisance, Tiffi uses another red candy to play with Freddie.
- A blue candy appears in Marmalade Meadow and is responsible for clogging Boomer's harvesting equipment.
- The face of the sunflower in the after story of the 56th episode, Candy Calaboose is replaced by a purple candy. (After the character of this episode has been changed to Benny instead of Mr. Raccoon)
- In Scrumptious Studio, there is a portrait with a yellow candy as the face.
- Six-coloured levels are absent in the later episodes. A few later levels used to have six-colours but were nerfed (such as level 3059). As of March 2019, nearly all six-coloured levels have been nerfed to five colours. Only nine six coloured levels remain in the game. The last six coloured level that was ever released is level 3873, which was later nerfed to 5 colours. However, this trend was broken on March 2021.
- Currently, the last standard six-coloured level is the aforementioned level 9084.
- In later levels, yellow candies can only appear from lucky candies as part of order, or at the start of certain levels in a fixed pattern, but they don't respawn.
- Yellow candies are almost always used for non-spawning colour candies. In levels with two non-spawning candy colours, red and yellow are usually the non-spawning colours. In levels with three non-spawning colours, purple is usually the third non-spawning colour.
- For a long time, there were no levels with four non-spawning colours. However, it was broken with the release of level 9446, the first 2.6 coloured level.
- Levels that are described as "x"-coloured levels are levels where "x" candies spawn normally (where "x" is the number of candy colours). Non-spawning colours can appear in later levels, due to coming out of lucky candies because they are required for the order or because they appear as part of a fixed layout but don't respawn.
- An "x.y"-coloured level is a level where "x" is the number of colours that spawn naturally, and "y" is the maximum number of colours that can appear on the board, with "y" always being greater than "x". For example, a 5.6 coloured level has five colours spawning naturally, and a sixth colour that can appear on the board (either as part of a fixed layout, or if a lucky candy containing the sixth colour is opened).
- Candies, in general, have the tilemap code
002
. Fixed candy colours make up the numbers055
to060
in the tilemap code.- Red:
055
- Yellow:
056
- Blue:
057
- Green:
058
- Orange:
059
- Purple:
060
- Red:
- Coloured candies are chronologically the first elements to be required for candy orders. Each colour has a separate order number, according to the files.
- Red: 1
- Blue: 2
- Yellow: 3
- Orange: 4
- Purple: 5
- Green: 6
- Coloured candies are required to unlock order locks from level 8049. As of level 8815, any colour can be required to unlock order locks.
- Occasionally, candies may have a changed design to celebrate a holiday.
- During Halloween 2020, orange candies were temporarily changed to resemble pumpkins.
- During February 2021, in celebration of Valentine's Day, purple candies are changed to resemble hearts.
- During April 2021, blue candies are changed to mimic Easter eggs to celebrate Easter.
- During June 2021's Puzzle Pursuit event, green candies are changed to look like puzzle pieces.
- During the premiere of Space Jam: A New Legacy, orange candies are changed to look like basketballs.
- As of level 9000 (level 554 unofficially due to a redesign), levels can have custom colour schemes, meaning that any colour can appear in any level, regardless of how many colours spawn. In these levels, the default colour order doesn't apply. For example, level 9000 is a four-coloured level with yellow candies instead of blue candies, meaning that yellow candies can spawn naturally in later levels.
- Specific coloured candies are able to spawn from candy cannons from level 9441 onwards.
- In the new version, during Sugar Crush, every level has six colours regardless of how many colours of each candy normally has.
- Blue candies were the most matched candies of 2023.[1]
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References[]
- ↑ 2023 Candy Crush Unwrapped, YouTube