http://candybox2.net/

I've not gotten very far yet, but this seems to be a far more complex (and I guess more game-y) version of the original Candy Box.

Can't wait to play it for several hours and then break the game so I can beat it.

Oh boy, sounds like I'm going to be leaving my computer on for a while.

I've been throwing candy on the ground repeatedly. This is awesome lol.

First question: Is it possible to beat the squirrel at tic tac toe?

(I recognise how absurd that question is)

Oh great, time to write off the rest of the day

@rahulricky: you need to think outside of the box.

@rubzo: oh wow, would never have thought of that. Thanks!

@rahulricky: I feel like that puzzle was designed purely so people could sound like douches while providing the hint for it. :P

This will tide me over nicely while waiting for Ace Attorney. That sounds kind of dismissive, but I'm just really into Ace Attorney.

Yeah, there's really no other way to give that hint.

Any hints for the squirell's question about the candiest person? I can't seem to get past that

General PSA, you can't get higher than 100 lollipops per second by planting them so stop once you reach that.

@darkecho117: Before one can know the candiest person, one must know oneself.

@darkecho117:

I've been hitting this giant teapot for at least 3 hours and I barely made a dent...

Another hot tip: you can get the pogo stick pretty early on, so keep an eye out for it.

Please tell me how you broke the first game. I am genuinely curious.

When will I touch Candy Box 2?

The best part is that you can go into configuration and set it to be white text on black background. That's a feature that should be printed on the back of the (candy) box.

Sweet. zing!

Fantastic, I was just about to post until I saw this here!

Candy Box 2: There's an actual candy box.

(Also the Light House puzzle is fucked)

Agh, I haven't really enjoyed any of these browser games until now... I just spent 2 hours on this dumb thing.

I like it!

Who is the candiest person in the world? You are!

Awww fuck. Life is over. Candy Box is here.

Now I really want to find it, considering I obtained an item that apparently goes with it in the desert.

Gah, makes that 2. I wonder if the village has it.

You have to... ehmm... climb a little bit to get it.

So the naked monkey wizard... how the hell do you beat him? My guy just stands in the corner....

You need to enchant some gloves, though he's a challenge even then. Go for the troll and octopus king first.

In the caves there is a monster called the Octopus king. When you beat him you earn his crown. You can enchant the crown and choose the Jasper's option and all of a sudden your character starts launching fireballs in all directions. That is how I beat him in under a couple of minutes.

Goddam, reading about games with zero context is the best.

I just got the green shark fin and it's not doing what it's supposed to. Is this a bug?

I just beat it! I have all the candies! It's a lot easier to beat this time around, and I didn't even have to cheat. Getting more candies and lollipops from waiting is surprisingly not that important. There's an upcoming section of the game that will let people upload custom quests, which sounds pretty exciting.

Some more tips for those who haven't finished:

• With everything enchanted and all chocolates found, you can still spend 3-4 chocolate au pains to upgrade your stats. Feel free to use more, only a couple of the enchantments are useful.
• You can brew the X potion and beat the extra level fairly easily (the instructions on the book is all you have), so do it as early as you want. I thought I needed some more clues so I left it until the end, but it's actually very simple.
• If you're having troubles with the platforming, get the treasure in the room to the right in the desert fortress as soon as possible. I'm not sure if I beat it in the intended way, but here's a hint on how I beat it: sometimes, you need to step on others in order to succeed.

I still can't beat the arcade game, though. Is it even possible to beat the dragon in that game?

@audiobusting said:

Yeah, it seemed really weird to me how the mill that produces candies is almost immediately useless and not worth the lollipop investment, because you can just grind candy from quests at a MUCH, MUCH faster rate.

Is there any way to buy the Sorceress' hat other than grinding candies (wearing the merchant hat) and converting them to lollipops by using lolligators? Because 1500 lollipops per second is complete garbage when your goal is a billion.

@bisonhero: I don't think so. I didn't get anywhere close to a billion lollipops by the end of the game. The hat isn't really worth the billion lollies anyways.

@turambar said:

I can confirm that the Light House puzzle is fucked hard, and is the kind of video game puzzle where 1-4 savants somewhere out there solve it on their own, and everyone else on the planet uses a wiki because they realize it's not worth like 2-3 hours of their time. Seriously, you have to figure out how to set up an infinite loop that infinitely recharges certain squares in the grid.

Fuck that noise.

@audiobusting: Did you ever get all the stuff? I'm near the end and messing around in the castle, and Jesus Christ, I never would've figured this out so I'm just resorting to the wiki:

http://wiki.candybox2.net/doku.php?id=the_p_stone

I wasn't alive in the heyday of text adventures and ASCII-based games so perhaps I never developed the patience required, but the rules dictating what ANY OF THAT FUCKING GRID MEANS were just not coming to me in the slightest. I get that a # means some kind of charge on that tile or something, and clearly there are arrows using less-than and greater-than signs, but everything else is fucking witchcraft, and I don't have 2 hours to sit staring at an ASCII-art puzzle.

Additionally, even if I figured out what some of the tile types did, to complete the puzzle you have to create basically an infinite loop that keeps recharging certain squares, and I really don't know that I ever would've stumbled across that.

I was able to complete that puzzle without consulting any guides.

If you poke enough at something, you will figure out what it means. I had a heck of a time with it, and the satisfaction of completing it was really something else. One of the hardest puzzles I've ever figured out, but man it felt goooooood.

@bisonhero: Yeah, I think I got everything already. Not before I beat the game though, I didn't really use everything I could have to beat the game.

And yeah, that lighthouse puzzle is really a Starseed Pilgrim-level of mindfuck. It took me a good 40 minutes to figure out myself.

I stumbled across the infinite recharging loop just clicking around and trying to work out what each block did, and from there it really wasn't that hard to figure the rest out.

@bisonhero

• Spending an hour or so to puzzle out solution to the lighthouse puzzle was probably the best part of the game in my opinion.
• 1500 lollies per second isn't the highest it goes. You're missing an item. Even then I didn't get the hat till after I beat the game.

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