Candy Crush Saga Level 3838 Tips and video

Hints and tips showing how to pass level 3838 Candy Crush Saga without boosters by Cookie
level 3838 is classified as a hard level so you can expect to lose quite a few lives before you manage to pass it.
This is a straightforward jelly level, but there are a lot of obstacles to overcome before you can get anywhere.
First you need to collect the keys, each key will unlock the next one and they are all yellow, so the only way to collect them is by using special candies and combos. The fist key is at the bottom of the left side so you will need stripes, some will drop from the dispenser at the top but you need to make room for them to drop by making moves under the dispenser.
Once the first key is collected the next one is bottom right, but there should be a stripe ready to collect that one so it's fairly easy.
The next 2 keys are top right and need hitting with stripes from below as the licorice blocks you from hitting them from the side. There are dispensers for stripes along the bottom, but make sure you line them up with the keys before you use them. These two keys are the hardest to collect. The final key is in the middle of the left section and shouldn't be too hard to collect.
Once all the keys are collected you can see how much jelly is left and the hardest to clear is on the right as there are no candies in it. If you can manage to make a stripe/ wrap combo bottom right it will clear the top layer, repeat it if you can. Also a colourbomb/stripe combo may help too
This is very hard level to complete without boosters so if you have any freebies I would use them to get a good start with the keys.

The two videos below show different ways of completing the level, the first is without boosters by Johnny Crush 
The second video is made using colourbombs by Cookie
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If the level you play is different from the one here it is because the developers have changed it since I played and I have no control over this. Please let me know in the comments and I will try to change it.

61 comments:

Francisco Diego said...

Because I have no space dash, I took 4 hands and made a CB for a CB/CB combo. That needs a lot of restarts. The rest was easy to clear.

Anon lafy said...

I started with a CB/CB combo, which left one annoying yellow key in the middle. Eventually I decided to use one of my previous UFOs which cleared the right hand panel and the key. Glad to be past this level. I had played it many times and used boosters.

Anon lafy said...

Sorry, that should say 'precious', not ''previous'.

Francesmenth said...

I didn't realize there were dispensers on the lower right. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Used multiple hand switch to get cb/stripes combo to clear top right jellies ( - - )

cookie56 said...


Posting for luck.

Anna said...

Posting for luck

Rita said...

Posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Luck is needed

Dolce’ said...

Lots of luck is needed please it’s so boring playing this over and over and over again. 🤦‍♀️🙏🤗

A2 said...

Posting for luck. Come on. I need a break. Help me out here and give me a lucky board.

Anonymous said...

CB combo and fish

Anonymous said...

Need some major luck been stuck for long time!

Anonymous said...

Posting for lucky board
Hope so

Anonymous said...

posting for luck...

Dee said...

Has anyone noticed how you no longer have the witches hat or whatever it is with all the boosters when you go back to play later but you didn’t lose them before you closed CC. Or when you open CC and it automatically puts you on the board you are still playing and haven’t beat yet? I’m playing on my iPhone

Ian said...

Just had two hours of unlimited lives, sprinkle and wrap/stripe and still came nowhere near to finishing! The stripes bottom right stopped falling once I had all the keys! Time to quit

Anonymous said...

By the time I get the last key I only have a few moves left.
I've gone back to lower level to obtain the CB/StripeWrap/3 Xtra moves but that hasn't helped. I can't Reset so even if I add a CB from my own boosters I still can't get 2 CB together.
I don't have enough Handswitch or Hammer to beat my way through.
PFL

Anonymous said...

If u don’t have hammers or hand swaps to assist pretty impossible-still trying to pass this one

Anonymous said...

Make a stripe/wrap combo in the bottom right after all the keys are collected?
Cookie has to be kidding. I have yet to see a wrap in that section.
Posting for luck.

Anonymous said...

This level is just plain nasty.

Anonymous said...

Vertical stripes simply do not drop, even if you make room for them.
So, WTF is King doing? Just cheating, stealing players’ money, or what?
UNBELIEVABLE. THIS GAME HAS BECAME PLAIN SHIT.

Anonymous said...

Ridiculous level. Even with lots of boosters it's impossible. Even got a party booster and I'm still stuck! Taking the fun out of it now CC

Unknown said...

Posting for luck

Danielle said...

Another holy cannoli level.....been playing this level for two days....not even close! Come on CC

Danielle said...

CB/CB combo and some fish and passed on the first try:

Anonymous said...

Really need a lucky board!

Anonymous said...

Here’s how they cheat here the area bottom right that’s suppose to produce stripes only does it rarely DEFINITLY not enough to clear blocks above

JanJan said...

Posting for luck

Cindy said...

👏👏👏

Linda Maitan said...

Posting for luck

Flippenheck said...

Oh help...lost all my good stuff on this

Texas Red Rose said...

I used my space ship or UFO or whatever you call it and it didn't even get close to the 4 candies I had left on the board. Ridiculous level King.

Annie said...

This is impossible! The key at bottom right doesn't stay on the track but drops into it's own little space. The only way to get it is with a stripe/wrap combo which is almost impossible to make at the bottom.

Player said...

Come on king...give players a break....really....pfffff

Unknown said...

Hey King, how about a lucky board!! I’m finding this one impossible!!??

Unknown said...

Could I please get a lucky board or like 20 more moves??

Debby B said...

The first key is relatively easy if you get a stripe to drop from the top middle (on the left side of the board) and line it up with the key. That second one is a killer, it drops down into no man's land. The only thing that can hit it is an envelope (or whatever you call those candies shaped like an envelope). If you can get it near the key, THEN, detonate it. Or a stripe/envelope combo near the bottom. I waste most of my games trying to get that second key. IF I get it, the 3rd and 4th keys don't take too long. The stripes fall down and line up with the key within a few moves. The last key in the centre, again takes a couple of moves. But by then that's all the moves I have left and I can't get all the jelly on the right. I even got lucky once and had to colour bombs land side by side, I set them off and they only cleared one layer of jelly!! UGH!

Pinky said...

Posting for lucky board hard level !!!!!!

JBR said...

Posting for a lucky board please.

Old school crusher said...

Posting for luck

MissyM said...

My board doesn't look like Cookie's after the first key is collected. The bottom right conveyor is empty and the key is in the bottom row in the middle column. There is no stripe to hit it as she mentions. There is no way to make a stripe to hit that key because the licorice is above it and jugs fill the sides so no way to make a horizontal stripe.
There is no way to hit the top right keys because there are no jelly to make stripes in the bottom (again as she says). The bottom right conveyor is empty and the jugs fill up all the other spaces. Anyone else having this problem?

Candy Thompson said...

HELP!

Mr Muddymud said...

Yes me. Hit the bottom key once using stripe/wrap but very difficult to get. Still not cleared thisblevel and getting fed up now

Shari said...

When cc decides as usual, it will fall into place. Hang in if you can. Having a hard time just doing that lately. King is trying to push their new games a lot. Don't bite you will just get more of the same as this one!!

Paul said...

and then just out of the blue, 2 x colour bombs are side by side. thats when CC decides that you've been on here long enough and we'll grant you a pass....

Rena said...

Posting for luck

Pjcastree said...

Hoping for a lucky board soon please

Susan said...

Posting for luck please

Martinat said...

This is impossible. No stripes to hit the second key. Im stuck.

Just me said...

I have used all of my boosters. I never did get all of the keys. I have watched the video time and time again with no results. I am in need a lucky board asap. I don't think I will get past this one without it.

MANGO said...

Should be classed as super hard level

Unknown said...

Posting for luck ✨

Unknown said...

Terrible level. Used all my boosters. Posting for lucky board.

Unknown said...

Terrible. No boosters left.
Need lucky board.

JuleP said...

Boring, brainless pure waste ��

No name said...

Once again , not enough moves

Byuemp said...

Insanely hard level😖Posting for luck 🍀

LD said...

Not enough moves, posting for luck

Annie said...

Horrid level. I think I'm going to be stuck here for days. Hate these ones that are just slanted to push you to buy extra moves. Nowhere near enough moves . By the time you collect all the keys there's not enough moves left to finish the jelly off. The closest I've come is having 4 left. Please for the love of all that is holy send me a lucky board.

gp8656 said...

Don’t think I’ll ever pas this one without a lucky board.
Ridiculously hard level!!!
Posting for luck