Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga is a match-three puzzle video game released by King on April 12, 2012 for Facebook, November 14, 2012 for iOS, December 14, 2012 for Android, December 11, 2014 for Fire OS, September 6, 2012 for Windows Phone, and July 29, 2015 for Windows 10 and Tizen. It is a variant of the browser game Candy Crush. Various "special candies" can be formed by combining 4 or 5 candies in a specific formation, such as a "striped" candy (which clears either an entire row or column), a "wrapped" candy (which acts like a bomb; it clears the 8 surrounding candies, falls down, and explodes another time), or a "color bomb" (which removes all candies with the same color of the candy it was combined with). Special candies can also be combined to create different effects. For example, if you combine a color bomb with a striped candy, all the candies of that color become striped candies, which then explode instantly. Other special candies that appear for free on the game boards can be purchased in-game or won on the Candy Crush Booster Wheel. These include the jelly fish in the jelly clearing boards that removes 3 random candies from the board, the coconut wheel in the ingredient clearing boards that turns three candies in a row into striped candies, and the lucky candies in the recipe boards that, when matched, turn into one of the types of candies the player needs to reach the goal. The Booster Wheel also offers the chance to win a jackpot with all the boosters in one spin. Other tiles, called blockers, appear on the boards to increase the challenge: Frosting (also called meringues) can't be moved and can only be removed if you miss, licorice blockers lock individual candies so they can't be used, chocolate pieces multiply if they aren't cleared, licorice swirls can't be removed with special candies, candy bombs explode and end the level early if they aren't cleared, Multi-layered frosting can only be removed with multiple matches, chocolate spawners always produce chocolate pieces, jam prevents the use of special candies, cake bombs can clear the entire board once cleared, and taffy tornadoes move around the board destroying pieces and breaking the field beneath them to prevent their use for a round. Other characters also appear in the levels, such as chameleon candies that change color each round, mystery candies that randomly turn into a special candy or blocker, and extra time candies in levels with a time limit. The player can also buy different boosters to make levels easier to win or to extend the game after losing a level; Lollipop Hammer clears a single piece from the board, Extra Moves can be purchased when running out of moves at the end of a game, Free Switch allows players to swap two pieces that may not match, Sweet Teeth to clear Blocker and Jelly, Bomb Cooler to extend the Candy Bomb timer when the timer runs out, and the Bubblegum Troll to prevent Chocolate Spawners from spawning chocolate from its sides. The Dream World levels have their own special boosters: the Restore Balance booster to reset the Lunar Scale for 5 turns, and the Lunar Strike booster to automatically activate the Lunar Strike.