Catch the Candy

How to play Catch the Candy

• Click and drag toward a surface to stretch out and stick to it.
• Release to let go and let momentum carry you.
• Chain grabs to swing further than a single stretch would reach.
• Touch the candy to finish the level.
• Collect the stars along the way for a better rating.

Momentum

The reach of a stretch is fixed and short. Distance comes from swinging, and swinging is a matter of releasing at the right point in the arc.

Let go too early and you go up without going across. Let go too late and you drop. The release point is roughly where the arc flattens out, and once your hand learns it the game changes character entirely.

Tips and strategy

Plan the route, not the grab

Before touching anything, look at the whole screen and pick the sequence of surfaces you intend to use. Levels are built around one intended path, and the anchors that path uses are usually the ones placed slightly out of the way.

Working with the world

• Moving platforms are timers. Wait one cycle and watch where they are at the top and bottom of their travel.
• Some blocks fall when you land on them, which is sometimes the point rather than a hazard.
• If a surface looks decorative but is placed exactly where nothing else is, it is not decorative.

The stars

• Do the level once, any way that works, to learn its shape.
• Replay it looking only at the stars.
• Most stars sit along the intended path rather than off it, so a full clear usually means a cleaner route, not a longer one.

Common frustrations

• Trying to reach the candy directly. Almost no level allows it.
• Grabbing at the nearest surface out of reflex, which kills momentum you have just built.
• Repeating a failed attempt without changing the release point. That single variable is what the level is testing.