Candy Crush Saga: How to Beat Level 9694

To beat Level 9694 in Candy Crush Saga, break through the dense central blockers during your first few turns. Clearing the center opens the board, restores candy flow from the top dispensers, and provides the space needed to form special candy combinations to eliminate the remaining jellies along the edges.

Early Priority: Clear the Central Corridor

Level 9694 starts with a tightly restricted board where multi-layered blockers wall off the center and restrict peripheral matches. Candies enter from the top of the board, so central obstructions choke off piece replenishment and prevent natural cascades.

Focus your first three to five moves exclusively on opening this central bottleneck:

1. Target adjacent blockers: Make horizontal matches directly touching multi-layered center blockers to damage several tiles at once.
2. Form special candies: Create Striped or Wrapped candies whenever a four- or five-candy alignment presents itself in the opening area.
3. Play low when blocked: If no direct blocker hits exist, match near the bottom of the open space to shift columns and trigger automatic drops.
4. Ignore empty perimeter matches: Avoid three-candy matches on the outer edges that do not hit blockers or open space.

Mid-Game Strategy: Combine Special Candies

Single special candies lack the reach to clear fortified corner and edge jellies on their own. Once the board expands, focus on positioning special candies next to each other.

Color Bomb and Striped Candy

Pairing a Color Bomb with a Striped Candy is the most effective move on Level 9694. Activating this combination converts every candy matching the striped candy's color into an active striped candy, firing clearing beams across the entire grid. This clears hidden jelly under remaining blockers, hits unreachable corner tiles, and triggers large cascades.

Wrapped Candy and Striped Candy

When a Color Bomb is unavailable, combine a Wrapped Candy with a Striped Candy. This detonates a three-row by three-column cross blast. Deploy this combination in the lower half of the board to clear thick clusters of jelly and let gravity drop new candies into the cleared rows.

End-Game: Target Lingering Edge and Corner Jellies

The final phase requires precise moves to pick off remaining jelly tiles on the edges without wasting turns on random matches. Because corners only connect to two adjacent tiles, align directional special candies in open center columns rather than forcing direct three-candy matches on the edges.

Before spending your final moves, check line-of-sight paths across the board. Crafting a Striped Candy in an open central column and firing it at an isolated corner jelly is more reliable than waiting for matching colors to land in the corner itself.