Types and their Effects of Special Candies in Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga is a challenging puzzle game that offers lots of special candies to help you enhance your game. Each special candy features different abilities that can help in clearing up the board with a relatively higher level of efficiency and helping you progress through the levels. Let's discuss different types of special candies:

1. Striped Candy

Appearance: Candy striped vertically or horizontally.
Creation: Matching four candies in a row.
Effect: Creates line blast clearing all candies in straight line, horizontal or vertical depending on the stripe orientation of candy.

2. Wrapped Candy

Appearance: Candy wrapped in wrapper.
Creation: Matching five candies in T or L shape.
Effect: Explodes cross-pattern and removes candies within its blast radius.

3. Color Bomb Candy

Look and feel: A colorful candy, visually resembling a bomb.
Creation: Five candies of different colors matched in a single row.
Effect: Removes all candies of the same color throughout the game board.

4. Jelly Fish Candy

Look and feel: A candy shaped as a jellyfish.
Creation: Five candies matched in cross.
Effect: Creates a line blast, which clears all candies along its line, similar to the Striped Candy but different in feel and look.

5. Cookie Candy

Look: A candy in the shape of a cookie
Formation: By matching five candies in a square shape.
Effect: Creates a 3x3 blast which cleans up all candies in the blast area.

6. Striped Color Bomb Candy

Look: A Candy Stripe with a Color Bomb in the middle
Making: Four candies in a line, and one Colour bomb Candy directly next
Effect: Creates a line blast which will pop all candies of the same colour as the Colour Bomb

7. Wrapped Color Bomb Candy

Look: A Wrapped Candy with a Color Bomb in the middle.
Creation: Five candies matched into a T or L shape directly adjacent to a Color Bomb Candy.
The Effect: It explodes in a cross pattern, clearing all candies of the same color as the Color Bomb.

8. Rainbow Striped Candy

Appearance: A striped candy with rainbow-colored stripes.
Creation: Matching five candies of the same color in a row.

Effect: Creates a line blast, clearing all candies of any color in a straight line.

9. Rainbow Wrapped Candy

Looks Like: A Wrapped Candy striped with rainbow colors.
Create by: Matching five candies of the same color in T or L shape directly beside a Striped Candy.
Effect: It explodes in a cross pattern, clearing all candies of any color within its blast radius.

These special candies have special abilities that can hugely help you in your gameplay and provide you with more efficient ways of clearing the board. If you understand their effects and use them strategically, then that exponentially increases your chances of success in Candy Crush Saga.