Jelly Levels are one of the five level types in Candy Crush Saga. This level type's icon is blue with a white square. Jelly levels first appear in Candy Town, the first episode, with first jelly level being level 6.
Jelly levels are the most common level type, with 249 levels currently, making up 43% of all levels. On average, episodes will have 6.1 jelly levels. Earlier episodes usually had 7 or 8 jelly levels, but newer episodes tend to have 6.
Jelly levels are considered the hardest level types, as most of the harder levels, such as 70, 109, 125, 167, 275, 290, 305, 323, 350, 394, 410, 434, 437, 461, etc are all jelly levels. The list can go on and on as many non-infamous levels can turn out to be hard.
Objective
To complete jelly levels, the player must remove all the jelly on the board. On most jelly levels, it is harder than it seems. The jelly is translucent in appearance, and can only be broken if a candy on the square with jelly is removed. Once all the jelly on the entire board is removed, the player competes the level.
In level 18, double jellies are introduced. These jellies are white and more cloudy in appearance and take two hits to be destroyed.
Jelly fish are helpful for this level but it is not really recommended to buy the booster. It can be helpful for very hard jelly levels since they can respawn multiple times within the move limit (not sure what the rate of spawn is). If they are destroyed, it will help clear 3 jelly squares. Another neat feature about them is that they can reach jellies behind blockers (except licorice swirls and Liquorice Locks).
A colour bomb + jelly fish combo can create up to 12 jelly fish.
When all the jelly is destroyed, the jelly level sugar crush is activated - 3 fish per remaining move swim onto the screen and eat random candies.
Difficulty
Jelly levels are consistently the hardest types of levels in this game. According to the Hardest level poll, a jelly level is voted the hardest in the game. Most of the Insanely Hard levels are Jelly levels. Some not known levels are not the hardest but overall when you compare an average Candy Order or Ingredient level, it is generally harder.
There are more double jellies in the game than single jellies. At higher levels, regular jellies rarely appear. Luckily, double jellies are the most amount of jellies you have to clear in 1 square. However, levels with five layered icing require 7 hits to clear 1 block of jelly.
The biggest issue when dealing jelly levels is that you have to destroy the candy on top of the square. This can be easy to say that and for King to design that but it is in fact the most difficult task in the game. At times, it is hard to find a regular candy match in the corners, especially on the bottom.
Certainly, there are plenty of jelly levels designed so that a normal candy match does not solve the problem and only a certain special candy will hit the square.
Jellies with no candy on top of it cannot be destroyed by lollipop hammers, sweet teeth and cake bomb explosions. However, other elements can still destroy jellies. This makes colour bombs harder to use as the candies aren't on top of the jellies.
Jelly fish are provided in some levels. However, players must make very good use of them in order to win. Many times players lose the level because the jelly fish is set off at the wrong time and hits a square that can easily be cleared manually. Level 342 is a great example of this and it requires luck for the jelly fish to hit the right square.
Due to the commonality of jelly levels, therefore this is arguably the biggest reason why this game is hard. Also, many people tend to be stuck at a jelly level for days if not weeks and months. Level 65 used to be the dead worst of the hardest level of all time, until it got nerfed. Level 147 got another nerf even bigger than what level 65 got. However, there are still lots of jelly levels in this game that are hard.
Overall, jelly levels are not only the most hated types of levels, but are also very boring to play. Level 461 may be an insanely hard level, but it is not as boring as thought.
Notable Nerfed Jelly Levels
These levels used to be insanely hard or at borders between insanely hard and very hard but have now been nerfed lower than very hard. The nerf that they all have in common are that it went from 6 colours to 5.
Level 65
Level 147
Level 184
Level 197
Level 213
Level 311
(If you want to expand please put big nerfs only).
Trivia
The sugar crush used to give a really high score. For unknown reasons however, the jelly fish were nerfed and now they give almost no points on the Facebook version. There was no reason given for this, but it used to make levels like 183 almost impossible. However, this change has never taken effect on mobile.
Double jellies actually appear more than single jellies. This can make jelly levels much harder.
Levels 50, 100, 150, 250, 300, 350, 450 and 550 are all jelly levels.
Jelly levels are the only levels where jelly fish can be used, both in game play and Sugar Crush.
Jelly levels tend to be found in strings. Strings of 3 jelly levels are somewhat common. The largest string of jelly levels is 7 in Nerdy Nebula.
42% of all levels are Jelly.
All worlds that have 90 levels ends with a jelly level.
Notable jelly levels
Level 6 - The first Jelly level
Level 6 - First jelly level
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Level 18 - First level with double jellies
Level 31 - Only level that uses 3 colours
Level 33 - The earliest hard jelly level
Level 65 - The former hardest level in the game
Level 100 - A level with extremely arguable difficulty
Level 147 - Formely topping the hardest level in the game. Now badly nerfed.
Level 235 - The 100th jelly level
Level 250
Level 300
Level 350 - Voted the #1 hardest level in the game.
Level 410
Level 450
Level 461 - Voted the #3 hardest level in the game.