This is for the developers of Candy House. I’ve been stuck on level 48 for two years now. The reason has to do with the powerup rules.
If there are no candies to match, the system shuffles the choices, even if there is a powerup on screen. A powerup of course means there really is a match to be made. That it shuffles anyway, thus eliminating a powerup, is a glitch that should be corrected.
Furthermore, there is very little opportunity to create a powerup on level 48. Double frozen candies in a deadend corner require four powerups to clear them, and many rounds have no powerups appear at all.
So, two adjustments to the program would make the game more fun and more possible to clear. Thank you.
The shuffle bug has been fixed. Good luck on trying to win this level.
PS: power-ups do not appear: you create power-ups yourself by making a match with more than 3 candies. And yes candies are placed random so sometimes you can’t create them.
Hello, thank you for reviewing the coding for the power-ups. It seems the coding needs a further tweak. When a swirl power-up appears, I may not use it but rather try to position a candy color near it. If there are no further moves the game will shuffle candies even though the swirl power-up remains as a viable move. Please investigate. Thanks!
To clarify: game shuffles even if there is a swirl bonus and a free candy immediately next to it? It should shuffle if there is a swirl but no candy next to it that you can combine it with.