Gamlet Trivia #20 — 2026-07-22

The answer was Candy Crush Saga — At its peak it was reportedly earning close to a million dollars a day from in-app purchases..

That day's clues

1. 🍬🍭💥📱
2. A 2012 free-to-play colossus on iOS and Android — technically on Windows too, but you played it on the bus.
3. A match-three puzzle game with thousands of levels, five lives, and striped specials engineered to make 'one more go' a business model.
4. Made by King, the Stockholm studio Activision Blizzard later bought for 5.9 billion dollars.
5. Sneered at by core gamers and studied by economists — its difficulty curves and level gates basically wrote the mobile monetisation playbook.
6. Anagram of its first word: DANCY

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