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Candy Crush Saga releases its 2000th level to celebrate its trillionth gameplay

I always thought it was a made-up number

Candy Crush Saga releases its 2000th level to celebrate its trillionth gameplay
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Unless you've been trapped in a box for four years there's little chance you won't have heard of the dentist's nightmare, Candy Crush. Today King has announced that Candy Crush Saga is launching its 2000th level worldwide.

Of course, these things don't usually happen without reason and King's one is a doozy. Having sat atop the mobile charts, with an appropriate studio name, really, Candy Crush Saga has just reached one trillion gameplays. No, seriously.

The special 2000th level will not only be available to those determined few who have passed level 1999, but will also be accessible to all players above level 10 as an in-game live event.

That's one hell of a feat after launching the game in April 2012. King has also been kind enough to share some facts with us so we'll leave you with that; some of them are utterly mind-blowing.

· They've reached 1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) gameplays since it launched on Facebook in April 2012, which is equal to everyone in the world playing approximately 140 times.

· Sunday is the most popular day to play Candy Crush Saga.

· The daily distance swiped by players on mobile is nearly 140,000 times the height of the tallest building in the world (830m), the Burj Khalifa.

· Each year, players swipe 41,197,500km playing Candy Crush Saga on their mobiles – that's to the moon and back 54 times!

· On average 18 billion game rounds of Candy Crush Saga are being played every month.

· Candy Crush Saga is being played on all seven continents, even Antarctica!

· Since launch, 307.1 trillion candies have been swiped and 1.4 trillion Colour Bombs have been used in Candy Crush Saga.


Emily Sowden
Emily Sowden
Emily is Pocket Gamer's News Editor and writes about all kinds of game-related things. She needs coffee to function and begrudgingly loves her Switch more than she lets on.