Candy Crush Saga Level 3961 Tips and video

Hints and tips showing how to pass level 3961 Candy Crush Saga without boosters by Cookie
Level 3961 is an order level, you have to collect 40 licorice whorls to complete the level.
The most important thing you need to think about from the first move is collecting the keys. The keys will release the lucky candies onto the board so that you will be able to change and collect them more easily. Once the lucky candies are released you can make moves in the middle part of the board to get them dropping onto the board.
Once you have the lucky candies and licorice on the board you need to try to create cascades, not easy when the licorice stops them, but it's the only way to clear the level. Matches of three just won't do the job.
The best candies are colourbombs and wraps and if you can switch the two together better still.

Originally level 3961 only had 4 colours so it was quite a lot easier but now with 5 colours it is significantly harder and I have used a colourbomb booster to make the video below. It is possible without boosters but you will need quite a bit of luck and more time than I had.
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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.

63 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well King I hope you’re happy & have reached your ultimate goal of alienating every single player who has put up with this game for the last 5 years. I started this triple episode with 60 each hammers/switches... and as you planned all along burned through them all, and I’m not even finished with your torture. Rest assured I WILL NOT be purchasing ANY boosters, never have & never will. So... you’ve gained nothing but contempt from long loyal players. Like I said, hope you’re happy

Unknown said...

Well said.
When I reach level 4000 I'm out of here.
Or earlier if I can't get through the next 39 levels.
Never paid, never will

Pjay said...

I don't think King cares one bit if people who never paid a cent leave. I mean, it's not like King loses any revenue if they leave. What King should worry about is alienating people who do pay for boosters and lives. If King gets too greedy it would be like killing the golden goose if those folks leave.

Anonymous said...

I’m anon 0814. King should care about ALL players. When I leave this game (which is more than likely very soon) I won’t be playing any of their other games either, they will have lost me for good. King got greedy a long, long time ago. They would actually gain by producing games that are fun & challenging, not impossible & frustrating. Seriously, how many times do they think I’m going to play 3962 with no boosters to beat it (Ms. Cookie can’t) I’m finished loading the frog 606, just to lose boosters over & over again. As we use to say, NERF IT, it’s impossible as is

Pjay said...

Good point. Sometimes I forget that King develops more than Candy Crush Saga.

Globb said...

Well said, Anon. King could not have done a better job of cynically alienating its supporters: nobody is up at these levels unless they are long-standing players of considerable skill. I just wish some less advanced players would like at these posts and realise they are just wasting their lives as well as their money.
I'm with Dennis and out at 4,000.

Globb said...

sorry, I meant "look"

Sultanate said...

In the video there is only 1 key and now there are 3 keys. Just not possible without hammers. Am out of boosters. Need a lucky board posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Posting for luck.
Roger75.

Anonymous said...

Posting for luck. With 3 keys to get it is impossible.

Anonymous said...

Check booster definitely help...

TNC said...

Yet another ridiculous level in this set of 3 episodes! Looks like I'll be here for a long time. Barb

Anonymous said...

Great idea to leave at 4000.
I will do the same.

Never pay a cent Bobby said...

King should care if those of us who never paid leave because our talk about playing gets others to try who do pay. I also will not try another King game so once swaps are gone, good bye. I already burned through about 800 hammers in the last 4 weeks.

Anonymous said...

To the point about King selling boosters, etc...Coincidentally a few levels ago "conveniently" an icon appeared in the lower left of the screen below the booster tally. It is a bag of boosters that "good news" I can purchase! It nicely has appeared on every level since.

Sandra Nottestad said...

Awful level. Double CB to start. Hammer the keys, used a swap to bring color bomb and wrap together. And I’ve passed.

Anonymous said...

People really... why do you think King cares if those who never pay anything quit? You aren’t going to pay on any of the other King games either, so that argument is baloney. And King doesn’t need you to advertise to more freeloading friends. Everybody already knows about Candy Crush.

Anonymous said...

I have paid for extra moves quiet often as a way to win. Since you chose to make the last bunch of games so hard and no fun, I will no longer pay anything. You may be generating revenue in the short term but will no longer get a dime from me unless you make the games realistic. Your call

Anonymous said...

Here's how I passed, was able to start with CB/wrap, that took out all 3 keys on the first move, then just tried to play from bottom

Jacs said...

Omg it is SO GOOD to see all these comments about King and I couldn’t agree with you all more. Thanks!

HFP said...

Getting back to the game... I only had 2 keys. Used hammer on the first and had a CB color match for the second. The check mark booster was a big help!! As for King and these ridiculous levels... My first priority every day is to get sugar cube boosters. 2x a day. Then I play 606 to get the space dash. King provides a lot of free boosters, you just can’t breeze thru the levels as fast as you’d like. Happy Thanksgiving!

Brown dog said...

Played this over and over getting nowhere. Posting for lucky board

Anonymous said...

Need a lucky board again.

Anonymous said...

Posting for a lucky board this level is impossible to beat

msnega said...

Haven't done this in a while and I know it irritates some players but I'm posting for luck. I've been on this level almost two weeks. Never took this long to do a board and from what I read there are worst levels to come.

msnega said...

I noticed that Cookie had three red keys so they all went away at once. I always get different color keys which are hard to get right away. I will keep trying for that board.

Anonymous said...

This is getting ridiculous now, every level is now impossible without boosters and just to rub your nose in it, they don't even call the level hard or super hard. Even this website has admitted they can't do them without boosters rather show some fake videos which i proved were fake GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Tou52 said...

Posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Needing a lucky board tes?

Anonymous said...

finished on 3rd attempt with just check mark booster. made a colour bomb booster early on to clear 1st key then stripe/wrap combos for the 2 other keys. just keep hitting liquorice in middle column .....

Anonymous said...

Can’t get de 3 keys... so can’t get this level
Too hard
Need help or a lucky board
So posting this for a lucky board
But perhaps it’s time to stop playing definitely
After 3 years I have no more fun

Carrie722 said...

I’ve been playing this level for a couple days. 3 keys, all different colors. Just now I went in to play the level and there was only one purple key. I hit purple with a color bomb. The board opened up. I collected the black whorls with 13 moves left over. I started the level with all the select boosters and all the Christmas stockings. I didn’t need any of it with just the one key to unlock.

Melanie said...

Posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Like all levels these days, this one is very simple.
The only skill you need is patience. The higher you go, the more patience you need.
I used to be one of the front runners, but never paid anything. I played older levels to get boosters.
It got clear that King put a stop to that by levels like this. You can only get one key to start with, so no matter how many space dashes you have or whatever, you basically have nothing. To pass, you will need hammers, very easy and simple.
So, recently, being stubborn like I am, I stopped collecting boosters and I refuse to use any that is not gifted on the board. I have hundreds stocked up now. Still, after a while, I get that lucky board and move along.
As long as players keep buying their way through, King will keep producing these boards.
You require no skill to pass any level. It’s a simple time passing app. Not a game, in a game, your skill plays a part, this is more like a lottery.

Anonymous said...

Posting for luck.

Anonymous said...

Horrible level, and I will NEVER buy anything!

King: Are you kidding me?

Michelle said...

Good idea.. .Greed has killed my desire to play this game
4000 it is . .. if I get thru these horrible levels. I have taken breaks and come back but those breaks get longer and longer...I can walk away.
Say good-bye to my money King.

Michelle said...

Play 3711 easier and you donrd need to go so far down the map.

Anon said...

So if we stop play n CC and don't play king games, what else is there? CC was so much fun. WAS. Chris

Jim said...

Used a color bomb on a wrapped to start. Hammered all the keys and it was easy after that.

Anonymous said...

posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Posting for luck

Anonymous said...

Very hard level to clear...not enough moves and 3 keys to get quickly. Hard..have to wait for a lucky board :-(

nicx said...

besoin d'aide et de chance please
merci
nic

collenfan said...

Posting for luck again.

Deb V. said...

Wow difficult level,posting for luck! AGAIN.

Shunga said...

Awful, awful, awful level! Need a lucky board

Suda Anant, said...

King, I can't understand why you are trying alienate your most loyal fans. You have taken all the thrill of the game by giving us unachievable targets. Sorry to say I have to call it quits as this while episode sucks. I have no hope of finishing it. No extra moves coming my way. It's plain frustrating!

jude said...

I can’t even get the keys 3/4 of the time. And if I go, there aren’t enough moves left to complete the level.

Shirley Ragland said...

Help on this one, please!

Shystar said...

Posting for luck please

Shystar said...

Posting for luck again please

Shystar said...

Please help posting for luck yet again

yshuummu said...

Another boring bullshit impossible level! Screw this game!!! I quit!!!!!

Joanne said...

Me too 4000 it is.

benni said...

After 3 days, I got 2 keys gone, hammered the third and was done.

Pjcastree said...

Hoping for a lucky board please

Old school crusher said...

Need a lucky board please!!!

Tga said...

I’ve been here for days used boosters, extra lives and have gotten nowhere. I bored, annoyed, and fed up. Enough!

Tga said...

I don’t think I have ever played a level as many times and gotten nowhere.King, you’ve lost you minds on this one.

Unknown said...

Terrible!!Need lucky board.

Nellebel said...

Al dagen bezig. Nog niet 1 drop weggespeeld. Waarom zo moeilijk maken? AUB help mij.

Stylish said...

Impossible level, waiting for King to decide when I can move on, so bored of these fixed levels, no skill or tactics needed,!