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Cookie Jam is either a striking homage or shameless copy of the mega-popular Candy Crush series of games. Regardless, there's no denying that jamming cookies just as addicting and can consume just as much of your free time as crushing candies. What's more, there are just as many tips, hints, and cheats that can not only help you blaze through levels faster, but even earn you unlimited free lives without spending a dime. If that sounds good to you, follow along for our top tips!
Cookie Jam is susceptible to the same date and time change trick as most similar games. When you run out of lives, simply hop into the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and change the time forward a few hours. Hop back into Cookie Jam and voila, you should have lives again. You can repeat this trick as often as you'd like. Just remember that when you're done, you'll need to put the time back to normal or you may run into issues with iMessage.
2. Played Candy Crush? Look for the same patterns!
Cookie Jam is so derivative, It even includes the same patterns and types of special pieces as Candy Crush. That means 5 candies in a row will do the same thing a donut will, an L or T shape formation will give you an exploding ingredient. There are a few differences but seriously, use your candy crushing abilities to your advantage. That being said, if you havne't already, be sure you check out our Candy Crush guides as well, since many of the same rules, tips, and tricks, will apply here.
3. Save your rolling pins for hard to reach corners
Rolling pins will clear an entire row of ingredients in one go. While it's tempting to use them to finish off a certain type of ingredient, it's much smarter to save them for obnoxious corners and crevices you can't reach easily. For example, if you have waffles that you have to clear, you'll run into many times where they hide in corners that are hard to match.
Don't go chasing gingerbread men around the board. Of course you have to keep an eye on them but for the most part, they'll take care of themselves in due time. By that I mean look for patterns above and around them. For example, if a green gingerbread man is moving up a row and there are two green candies not far from him, let him move there and then swipe him to his demise. Don't try to lower pieces or bring them to his level, you're better than that.
5. Always make moves at the bottom of the board first
When you make moves at the top of the board, you typically don't ever have an opportunity to get combos. This is because less pieces are moved around all at once. Instead, always take all your moves at the bottom of the board first. This way, you create a cascade effect and more new pieces become available. And hey, sometimes the pieces you would have swapped at the top take care of themselves as pieces fall.
6. Focus on special cookies more than ingredients, most of the time
7. For 3 stars, end with as many moves left as possible
While some folks are A-OK with passing a level with a mere one star, there are lots of us out there that just don't think that's good enough. In order to master each level, not only do you need to clear ingredients and become a combo master, one of the best ways to earn all 3 stars is to end with as many moves as possible. This way you get special ingredient pieces at the very end to pad your score even more. So watch for patterns and clear as much as you can in single moves. And most importantly, avoid meaningless moves at all cost.
8. Don't assume combos with special candies are your best move
It's super easy to get distracted by two special candies sitting right next to each other. It's almost as if there's a tiny voice inside your head that says 'Swipe them now!' That being said, it isn't always your best option. While swapping two rainbow cakes or a rainbow cake and a striped ingredient are always a sure bet, two diagonal ingredients and a few other combinations are not typically worth wasting. Instead, save them for when they are in better positions independently and can serve you two purposes.
Your top Cookie Jam tips?
Those are our top tips for jamming as many cookies as possible. We're always on the lookout for more, however, so if you know any others, tell us all about them in the comments!
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SGNStill have a sweet tooth after playing Candy Crush Saga? Get your fix with Cookie Jam, a similar Match-3-style puzzle game for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (and Android devices by April).Make no mistake: SGN's Cookie Jam is a blatant clone of King's Candy Crush Saga – which, to be fair, borrows heavily from Bejeweled – but those looking for a more challenging head-scratcher with a couple of new twists will find this new app to be a delicious download.In case you haven't played a Match-3 puzzle game before, you're presented with a board with a couple dozen game pieces on it. Your job is to swap two adjacent pieces so that there's at least three of the same game pieces – such as a red heart or orange star – in a row or column. When this happens, they disappear from the board and the game pieces cascade down to fill up the empty spaces. If you can match 4 or 5 of the same game pieces in a row, it creates a special piece that can be used to destroy multiple game pieces at once – same goes for aligning game pieces to create a letter 'L' or 'T.' Swapping these special pieces creates an even bigger explosion to help clear the board.Similar to Candy Crush Saga, Cookie Jam has a food-related theme.
You're creating French dessert 'recipes,' such as a cupcake or pie, and some of the special pieces you'll create are cake slices, cookies and colorful 'smores. You'll break apart sugary donuts, pack up boxes of treats and use whipped cream to select multiple game pieces in the same column. You get the idea. SGNThere isn't much of a story to follow but the game's press release tells of Monsieur Chef Panda, who embarks on a culinary adventure to travel the world and collect recipes for a baking competition (I didn't catch any of this in the game itself). Just like Candy Crush Saga, some levels only give you a certain number of moves to reach your goal, plus there are a limited number of power-ups you can use to help break off or swap game pieces for you, such as a rolling pin, wooden spoon or an oven mitt.While Cookie Jam's look, feel and overall gameplay is very similar to Candy Crush Saga – even the map you travel through between levels is nearly identical – this game is much tougher than King's popular app and Facebook game.
Whether it's trying to create a match to destroy a quick gingerbread man before he can reach the top of the board or destroying a fudge layer before you can break a waffle cone, Cookie Jam gets credit for being a harder game. As you progress throughout the 100-odd levels and try to earn all 3 stars for each level by playing well (yes, just like Candy Crush Saga), you'll unlock new challenges, including a wider array of matching types, shifting map shapes and more on-board obstacles.
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