Meringues are a blocker in Candy Crush. They are often confused for whipped cream or frosting. These blockers occupy a space on the board until they are cleared. No candy can be contained under a meringue but a meringue can conceal a jelly square.
Once a meringue is cleared, even if there is a jelly, a candy can fall into the slot.
Multi-layered meringues are one of the most common blockers in Candy Crush. These blockers occupy a square space and cannot be moved. Multi-layered meringues change in appearance as more layers are added.
- An empty tin – These are rare to find in game (you can in level 116) but an “empty” tin is a type of meringue. It can be cleared with one hit.
- A double-layered meringue – These require two hits to clear.
- A triple-layered meringue – These require three hits to clear.
- A quadruple-layered meringue – These require four hits to clear
- A quintuple layered meringue – These require five hits to clear.
When you clear a 4-layered meringue once, it will take the appearance of a 3-layer meringue. This is useful because it can help you keep track of how many hits you still need to clear the meringue completely.
Multi-layered meringues get even trickier because underneath their layers there can also be jelly or a double jelly. This means that after having had to clear multiple layers, you’ll need to clear the jelly too. A five layered meringue over a double jelly will require seven clears.
Meringues and multi-layered meringues can be cleared in two main ways. The first is by making a move adjacent to the meringue, like chocolate and licorice swirls, to clear the meringue.
The second way to clear meringues is to make a special candy combination that affects them–the most effective special candy combination for wiping out layers on multi-layered meringues is a wrapped+striped candy. However, a normal striped candy can also do the trick.
Note: unlike candy bombs, meringues do not have a color which means that a color bomb is not going to clear the meringues directly (unless an adjacent candy is zapped).
In early levels, chocolates are blockers that can multiply. Certain boards will begin with a set number of chocolates but for every move that does not clear a chocolate, a new one will spawn. Until level 156, you can stop chocolates from multiplying by clearing every chocolate off the board.
Chocolate Fountains don’t appear until level 156 but when they do, watch out! These machines will regenerate chocolate, even if you’ve cleared the whole board of chocolate blockers.
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