Level 97 is the second level in Salty Canyon and the 42nd jelly level. To pass this level, you must clear 63 single jelly squares in 30 moves or fewer.
When you complete the level, Sugar Crush is activated and will score you additional points.
Fortunately, there are only single jellies and four colours.
The jellies are worth 63,000 points.[1] Hence, an additional 9,000 points is required to earn one star.
Stars[]
Stars
Score
72,000
150,000
300,000
600,000
Strategy[]
Trivia[]
This level was intended to show that candy bombs will further limit the number of moves available unless cleared.
The bomb cooler booster was announced and three of them were awarded free on the web version.
This level used to be rated very hard in the beta version. Most runs wouldn't meet the target score, as it was very hard to score at least 4,000 points per move without clearing at least one candy bomb.
Even worse happened on mobile. Combining colour bomb + candy bomb would not reward the player with a massive score bonus as well as candies matching before settling completely. However, it is no longer that way on mobile.
This was one of several levels to receive a significant difficulty change without a single nerf.
This is one of several levels to make a cameo in a Candy Crush Saga television advertisement. The other levels are 33, 50, 70, 147, 181, 290, 350, 361, and 461. Most of these levels were rated hard or harder.
The shape of the board was a reference to its episode’s new element.
This level spawned sugar drops before this element was removed.
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Elements Info
Element Spawn Notes
Elements
Notes
Spawn 1 every 2 moves.
Miscellaneous Info
↑63 single jellies × 1,000 points per single jelly = 63,000 points