I was a little over a year ago when I kept asking my daughter what she was doing on her phone as she sat on the couch quietly staring at and moving her fingers around her phone screen. The answer was always, “Mom, I’m playing a game.” After months of continually getting the same answer, I finally asked her what the heck it was that she was playing.
The answer…CANDY CRUSH, it’s just so addicting!
Now, really, how can a stupid little game app be so addicting? I had to find out what it is was that had captivated my daughter to the point where she would throw her phone down and yell, “I HATE this game.”
So, like any inquisitive mom would do, I downloaded Candy Crush Saga and my life has NEVER been the same!
At first, I had no idea what I was doing and my daughter just laughed at me. The only advice she offered me was that I would eventually figure it out. After a few attempts, I got the gist of it. I moved up a few levels and then all of a sudden I had no lives left and I was locked out of the game. Are you kidding me, I have to wait 18 minutes until I can play again? I bought this damn game, who are they to tell me I have to wait? And that’s where my addiction began.
It’s been months since I started playing and I have learned to love my striped candies and absolutely adore my color bombs! The chocolate, my nemesis, well that’s another story. After 15 great years of working at the candy company that makes M&Ms Chocolate Candies, I never thought I could hate chocolate this much!
Now, the two of us sit on the couch and bitch about Candy Crush, but we continue to play. There are times when we are both stuck on different levels for days at a time and we even switch phones just to try and beat the levels for each.
The men in our house think we’re crazy. I tell them it’s not so different than them sitting in front of the xBox for hours playing Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, they don’t agree. In there eyes, their games involve some “strategy and you have to think.” Give me a break, my argument to that is that we have to strategize too in an attempt to make special candy combinations to clear the board and beat the level. They roll their eyes and tell me to grow up!
Yes, Candy Crush is addicting but it’s fun and I know I can count on it to give 10 minutes of down time from my crazy days whenever I load it up on my phone. So, when you see me sitting in my car waiting for the kids’ practices to end, you can bet that I’m sitting there trying to beat the next Candy Crush level. The scary part is that I think I’m only on level 90, or somewhere close to that, and there are over 400 levels and even more to come.
I thought I would share a few facts about Candy Crush that I recently read in USA Today.
50 million people play it daily, inclding Jimmy Fallon and Ellen DeGeneresMore than 20% of iPhone users play itgenerates a few million dollars a daythe hardest level is 65 (not sure if I agree but it does have licorice, jellies and my dreaded chocoalte!)MommyWarriors.com
