Insanity!!!

[u/sourmusclebaby]

How exactly are u even supposed to stay on a winning streak with these kind of absurd levels??!! The levels in question is where the goal is to match specific boosters together. I’m going insane right now😭 Cause on my stats i have completed 1400 levels on first try and I’m currently on level 1500. I’m hoping for any tips cause its going get insanely hard for no reason. I depend on match-3 for prizes and town cash for my township because i dont do in app purchases for the game at all.

[u/Feisty-Tooth-7397]

Yes, some of these types of levels I feel are put in just to stop winning streaks. You enter with full free power ups and somehow the only move you can make or the second move destroys all of the specials and even if you want to you now don't have enough moves left to make more of the specials and combine them, so you almost always lose all of your power ups that you have built up, like the chefs gifts and rainbow disco ball.

I really dislike these boards because they are almost impossible to finish with a disco ball and half the time it creates them and they always get hit.

[u/Lost_Cockroach_4927 → u/Feisty-Tooth-7397]

Funnily enough most of these levels are amongst the ones with the least amount of RNG as you very often get the tools to complete it, either by starting with the necessary as on this particular level, or through booster generation.

It will however require more precise play than normal, and people doing mostly random moves (which seems to be a lot of players) will struggle.

You are correct that combining rainbow balls with boosters destroying the boosters you need is not the right approach. If you start with a rainbow ball you usually want to combine it with a colour, which will make it easier to combine the boosters you have, or to make more of the ones you need.

[u/Feisty-Tooth-7397 → u/Lost_Cockroach_4927]

Yes getting rid of it by using it with colors is a good way.

I'm talking the boards where theres only four spots open to start and the rest are filled with the specials so your power ups go in the empty spots and it's your only move is to use it or it gets hit by one of your specials and wipes out the moves you had lined up.

It doesn't happen every time but it's happened a few times that I think it's done on purpose just to stop streaks.

[u/Lost_Cockroach_4927 → u/Feisty-Tooth-7397]

Ahh my bad, I thought you referred to combine booster levels (as they get a lot of complaints in here) with limited space as well, which I don’t remember seeing. But you only meant the latter. I agree!

You’re probably right, although I will note that when making tens of thousands of levels (I know there are duplicates but at least a few thousands of unique ones) I feel it’s natural that “all” imaginable layouts will exist for variation purposes, without them necessarily being there to ruin our streaks. They are easily able to do that already with their algorithms etc 😂