Candy Crush Saga Level 31 Guide: How to Drop Ingredients

To beat Level 31 in Candy Crush Saga, prioritize clearing the row of meringues along the bottom edge of the board. The level objective requires you to drop all hazelnuts and cherries through the bottom collection arrows. Ingredients cannot leave the board until the blockers covering these exits are destroyed. Clear the meringues directly beneath active ingredients first, then align and detonate vertical striped candies in those columns to drop the items out in a single turn.

Clearing Exit Blockers First

Matches made near the top of the board do not advance Level 31 because they leave the bottom exit bottlenecks intact. Start each attempt by scanning the bottom rows for matches adjacent to the meringue blockers.

• Target Active Lanes: If an ingredient is resting in a column with an intact meringue beneath it, prioritize breaking that specific blocker before opening other lanes.
• Trigger Bottom Cascades: Making matches in the lowest rows forces the candies above to shift down, creating automatic cascade matches that chip away at surrounding meringues without spending extra moves.
• Ignore Dead Edge Matches: Avoid making matches on the outer edges if they do not damage a blocker or position an ingredient to fall.

Dropping Ingredients with Vertical Striped Candies

Once the bottom blocker in an ingredient's column is destroyed, a vertical striped candy is the fastest tool to complete the drop. Ingredients do not match with regular candies and cannot leave until every tile below them is cleared.

Ensure your four-candy match is horizontal so the stripes run vertically. A horizontally striped candy will only clear one row, which will not drop the ingredient through the exit arrow in one action.

High-Value Special Combinations

Combining two special candies clears large sections of the board and saves moves compared to single matches:

1. Striped Candy + Wrapped Candy: Swapping these creates a giant cross blast that clears three full rows and three full columns. Activating this in the center clears multiple meringue tiles and pulls any ingredients in those three columns directly to the bottom.
2. Color Bomb + Striped Candy: Matching five candies in a continuous line creates a Color Bomb. Swapping it with a striped candy converts all matching-colored candies across the board into striped candies and detonates them simultaneously, which often clears remaining blockers and drops all active ingredients at once.
3. Color Bomb Solo Activation: Matching a Color Bomb with a single regular candy removes that entire color from the board. This reduces congestion, drops ingredients several rows downward, and sets up easy four-candy matches.

Managing Ingredient Columns

Avoid moving an ingredient horizontally unless it is shifting into an open, blocker-free lane or forming an immediate special candy. Moving an ingredient sideways into a column with intact meringues wastes turns, as you will have to clear an entirely new set of blockers to retrieve it. When the first ingredient drops off the board, check where the next one spawns at the top and immediately redirect your moves to clear the exit path directly beneath it.