By Adrian Gardner.
Mystery Candy's appear first at level 231.
A candy with a '?' on it can be swapped as normal, but will
turn into a random “something” afterwards.
What it turns into can be negative... eg. a piece of chocolate
(which, if left unchecked, will then spread), a chocolate
factory, a piece of licorice, a piece of cream of random
"thickness" ... It may need just one blast to destroy it or it
may turn that cell into a bit of background and therefore
remove that cell from the "playfield" entirely!
remove that cell from the "playfield" entirely!
Alternatively it can turn into something positive … eg a
striped candy, a wrapped candy, a colour bomb, a fish, a
"tick" candy or that pink-round-thingy (!), etc.
If "colour" is relevant to the new object it will not necessarily
be the same as before.
Sometimes the new candy is "open" (ie immediately
playable), sometimes it is wrapped in jelly and therefore
needs to be “unlocked” first.
It's also possible it will become a new "?" again!
If a swap of one or more mystery candies results in a valid
combo they will “go off” immediately so, say you swap 3 '?',
and they result in two blues and a stripped blue then that is
a valid line of three – they will go and the stripped blue will
do a line blast … which, will then “hit” other '?'s, and so on!.
On the level shown above (236) this can mean that a lucky
first swap can yield a combo which triggers other '?'s which, themselves, triggers yet more – I have finished this level in ONE move several times, it's quite fun!