Candy Crush Soda Saga Tips, Cheats and Strategies

Candy Crush Soda Saga is the match-three sequel to King’s mega-hit Candy Crush Saga. In this game, you match up three or more identical pieces of candy to score points, clear obstacles, and raise soda levels to guide floating bear candies to the top of the screen. Gamezebo’s Candy Crush Soda Saga Tips, Cheats and Strategies will provide you with the help you need to keep your sanity in Candy Land.

• In the Bubble Bears stages, remember to match up pop bottles to make the soda level rise – If you’re already familiar with Candy Crush Saga and / or any number of match-three games, you’re probably going to enter a stage and begin idly matching up candy pieces. That’s not always the key to victory in Candy Crush Soda Saga, though. In stages where you need to make “Bubble Bears” float to the top of the stage, it’s important to match up pop bottles so that the soda level will rise and take the bear with it. Don’t idly waste moves.
• In Frosted Bears stages, focus on making matches over ice – Frosted Bears stages can be difficult because clearing away ice often requires more than a single match. Focus as much as possible on making matches over ice, especially thick ice that requires two matches to clear.
• The location of Frosted Bears is randomized every time you play a level – Don’t bother memorizing the location of Frosted Bears in a stage. If you lose and have to replay the stage, the Bears’ location shifts.
• Try and clear candies from the bubble-up in Bubble Bears stages – Make as many matches as possible directly above a Bubble Bear to help them float to the top. Vertical matches are favourable.

• Pay attention to how many bears need to be freed in a Bubble Bears stage – Many Bubble Bears stages require you to free more than one bear, even though only one shows up at a time. Pay attention o the number of bears remaining before planning your strategy.
• Use powered-up candies together whenever possible – Tempting as it is to use powered-up candies right away (that is, striped candies, fish candies, and explosive candies), try and hold off for a bit unless you see a clear benefit to using them. If you combine powered-up candies, you get a much more powerful effect than you would be using them on their own. This can mean the difference between clearing a stage with ease and being forced to go at it yet again.
• Prioritize breaking open licorice cages – Licorice cages are evil. They lock down vital pieces of candy, and they tend to be annoying barricades in Bubble Bear levels. Match the contents within with like-colored candy pieces to clear them away.
• Use colorbomb candies wisely – Swapping a colorbomb candy with a regular candy piece will zap away all same-colored candies in a single move. Simply clearing the screen isn’t necessarily the way to meet a goal, however, so think carefully about how you use the colorbombs. For instance, it might be better to use them to clear away ice, licorice cages, and other barriers.

• In multi-screen Bubble Bears stages, the soda level will continue to rise on the next screen even if the first screen is filled up – Even if one screen is filled up with pop, don’t stop matching pop bottles! The excess pop will spill onto the next board, helping your Bubble Bear rise that much more quickly.
• On a large Frosted Bears stage, start off by spreading your matches to locate the position of as many bears as possible – If you have a lot of ground to cover (and a lot of Bears to find) in a Frosted Bears stage, start out by making matches in different corners of the game board. This will help you pin down the location of the Bears, and you can zoom in from there.
• Hunting for Frosted Bears? Look for a faint green glow under a single layer of ice – Frosted Bears are hard to see, but they can be spotted under a single layer of ice. Look for a faint green smear. They can’t be seen under double layers of ice, however.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.