Save your free boosts, such as the Cake Shovel that allows you to destroy a specific sweet, only when you are close to completing a difficult level.
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Some levels require you to break sweets that are trapped in orange candy. To do this, matching the sweets that are inside the candy. Make this a priority, as it will be required to complete the level as well as filling your quota. Because the orange candy is static, the correct pieces must fall into the correct locations. Trying matching from below the orange candy to force different types of sweets fall.
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Use strawberries to increase the power of your matches. This is especially useful for Bosses such as Piquant Monkey who appears at the end of World 1.
Lives are normally restored over time. You can instantly get extra lives by advancing the time on your device. Afterwards, set the time back to its correct value.