Timed levels

Timed hard level icon

Timed levels (also known as Time levels or Time limited levels) were one of the seven level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon was purple with an hourglass.

The object of this level type is to earn at least one star before the time ran out.

Timed levels had effectively been phased out of the game, though it might be that King is waiting for critical reception upon the removal of timed levels. In HTML5, they have been redesigned to other level types. They are still present, but can only be accessed by playing the Flash version.

During the first two months of 2018, moves levels replaced some timed levels, which signaled an early stage of being phased out. By the end of February, the affected levels were 1710, 1891, 1995 and more.

In early March 2018, many earlier timed levels were replaced with moves levels, which was another signal of the final days of this level type. In the first week of April 2018 alone, most remaining timed levels were converted into other level types. It was assumed that the next update or two would remove all remaining timed levels. This came true when the last remaining timed level, level 18, was removed in the first week of May. It's the symbol of the official removal of timed levels.*

However, timed levels still exist on Flash version which can be played on King.com browser. See here for the list of timed levels on Flash.

Objective

It was the only level type which was not restricted by moves.

To pass a timed level, a certain score has to be achieved within the time allocated, such that you would earn at least one star. When a match subsequently resulted in three cascades, a +5 candy would come down. If the cascades were still in progress, a +5 candy would come down after every four cascades. When time ran out, all special candies would be activated, then +5 candies would turn into wrapped candies and would activate.

When an Extra Time Candy was matched, it would only grant 5 seconds or refill the timer, whichever was less.

Web description

You have a restricted amount of time in which to finish the level. If the time runs out before you’ve earned at least one star, you will fail the level.

Difficulty

Timed levels are considered harder than moves levels, since your goal was to earn one star. There are only a few hard timed levels to earn one star. Some are also very boring to play.
- They are hard because you had to earn one star with some being very high, and you are not pressured due to number of moves, but there are a time limit.
- Also, many later timed levels are hard to earn three stars. 1237 on Facebook is an example.

Green candy timed — A green Extra Time Candy.

Trivia

This level type is officially called Time levels.
This is the level type in the original Candy Crush and Action Mode of Bejeweled.
This is one of the two 'primitive' level types, as their sole objective was the score. The other 'primitive' level type is moves, and it is used for tutorial levels.
There has never been two consecutive timed levels.
There has never been an episode with three or more timed levels.
In early days, there was never a timed level that was extremely hard to earn even one star. But many later timed levels are extremely hard to earn three stars.
- This trend was broken with level 1068, the first timed level rated extremely hard.
- Level 297 on Facebook is an extremely hard level to earn three stars, yet it was almost impossible to fail to reach the target score.
Before they were redesigned, there were only 23 episodes after the first 25 to have timed levels.
The music of this level type for the HTML5 version was the music for Candy Order levels on Flash version, while the music for this level type on Flash version was the music for Ingredients levels on HTML5 version.
Timed levels did not give any sugar drops on mobile.
This was the only level type not to appear in the final episode on Flash version.
After Sugary Stage, the phasing out of timed levels began. Following said episode, there had only been a handful of timed levels and after the end of Flash version, many of the earlier timed levels were being changed into other level types (mostly moves levels). Also, jelly-timed mixed levels used to exist but they were all converted into regular jelly levels as a part of this process. Finally, on 2 May 2018, the last remaining timed level, namely level 18, was reverted into a jelly level, after existing for 19 days as the last level of its type.
After having been removed on HTML5, timed levels still exist on Flash.

List of original Timed levels

This is a list of the original Timed levels on the HTML5 version before they started phasing out of the game. Note that the "Gap" column is just for purpose of illustration.

Most of these levels are still available as timed levels on Flash version.

See here for the list on Flash.

Timed Level #	Level ()	Gap from the previous timed level	Details
#1.	18	None	Unoffical and the last timed level before the complete removal of timed levels.
#2.	20	2	Was originally the First timed level.
#3.	27	7	First episode with 2 timed levels.
#4.	32	5
#5.	43	11
#6.	59	16
#7.	64	5
#8.	80	16
#9.	84	4
#10.	94	10
#11.	108	14
#12.	121	13
#13.	134	13
#14.	139	5
#15.	145	6
#16.	151	6
#17.	159	8
#18.	166	7
#19.	177	11
#20.	182	5	Was the First Very Hard timed level.
#21.	189	7
#22.	198	9
#23.	204	6
#24.	211	7
#25.	223	12
#26.	237	14
#27.	252	15	Could be played indefinitely.
#28.	267	15
#29.	283	16
#30.	297	14
#31.	313	16
#32.	328	15
#33.	343	15	Was the Longest Timer - 3 minutes!
#34.	358	15
#35.	373	15
#36.	403	30
#37.	433	30
#38.	462	29
#39.	618	156	Was the First timed level after a drought of 125 levels (or higher).
#40.	683	65
#41.	698	15
#42.	701	3
#43.	725	24
#44.	880	155	Was the Second timed level after a drought of 125 levels (or higher).
#45.	956	76
#46.	973	17
#47.	1004	31
#48.	1068	64
#49.	1198	130	Was the Third timed level after a drought of 125 levels (or higher) and the Shortest Timer - 10 seconds.
#50.	1237	39
#51.	1387	150	Was the Fourth timed level after a drought of 125 levels (or higher).
#52.	1409	22
#53.	1424	15
#54.	1512	88	Timed levels used to start to increase their abundance here.
#55.	1525	13	Was the First Insanely Hard timed level.
#56.	1538	13	Episodes with 2 timed levels have reappeared after Sweet Surprise (201-215) - (excluding Toffee Tower) - a gap of 1300 levels.
#57.	1546	8
#58.	1554	8
#59.	1562	8
#60.	1575	13
#61.	1585	10
#62.	1595	10
#63.	1602	7
#64.	1628	26	Milky Marina was the First episode with 3 timed levels (1628, 1632, 1638).
#65.	1632	4
#66.	1638	6
#67.	1644	6
#68.	1674	30
#69.	1694	20
#70.	1710	16
#71.	1723	13
#72.	1730	7
#73.	1733	3
#74.	1741	8
#75.	1753	12
#76.	1762	9
#77.	1784	22
#78.	1787	3
#79.	1803	16
#80.	1810	7
#81.	1817	7
#82.	1822	5	Icing Islands was the First episode with 4 timed levels (1822, 1825, 1828, 1832).
#83.	1825	3
#84.	1828	3
#85.	1832	4
#86.	1837	5
#87.	1850	13
#88.	1859	9
#89.	1869	10
#90.	1874	5
#91.	1885	11
#92.	1888	3
#93.	1891	3
#94.	1910	19
#95.	1912	2
#96.	1925	13
#97.	1929	4
#98.	1932	3
#99.	1935	3
#100.	1955	20
#101.	1958	3
#102.	1995	37
#103.	2016	21	Was the First timed episode opener.
#104.	2030	14
#105.	2049	19	Tricky Tracks was the Second episode with 4 timed levels (2049, 2053, 2058, 2060).
#106.	2053	4
#107.	2058	5
#108.	2060	2
#109.	2073	13
#110.	2079	6
#111.	2083	4
#112.	2089	6
#113.	2094	5
#114.	2126	32
#115.	2135	9
#116.	2163	28
#117.	2170	7
#118.	2175	5
#119.	2199	24
#120.	2205	6
#121.	2210	5
#122.	2220	10
#123.	2229	9
#124.	2235	6
#125.	2240	5
#126.	2258	18
#127.	2266	8
#128.	2279	13
#129.	2290	11
#130.	2295	5
#131.	2304	9
#132.	2314	10	The phasing out of timed levels began after this episode.
#133.	2374	60
#134.	2583	209	Was the First timed level after a drought of 200 levels (or higher). (It has become the longest and 5th drought)!
#135.	2634	51
#136.	2758	124	The Last timed level in Flash version! It was the 6th long drought.
#137.	2940	182	Was the First timed level exclusive to HTML5 version and the 7th long drought.
#138.	3093	153	Has become the very last timed level ever released and the 8th long drought.

This is a list of the Mixed Jelly-Timed levels before they started phasing out of the game (All got changed to Jelly levels):

Level 2781 - Was the very First Jelly-Timed level ever released.
Level 2784
Level 2786
Level 2789
Level 2791
Level 2793
Level 2795
Level 2799 - The Last Jelly-Timed level in Flash.
Level 2840 - Became the First Jelly-Timed level exclusive to HTML5 version.
Level 2865
Level 2871
Level 2890
Level 2923
Level 2928
Level 2930
Level 2932
Level 2936
Level 2942
Level 2951
Level 2956
Level 2981
Level 2999
Level 3008
Level 3042
Level 3090 - The very last Mixed Jelly-Timed level before King did the removal. (A grand total of 163 levels with time)!

Candy Crush Saga level types

Scrapped/Discontinued

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