What is the appeal of Candy Crush Saga?

It isn’t candy, it is crack. It is addictive. You have to think through your moves. It looks simple but it isn’t. Do you want some candy, little girl?

@jonsblond I’m right there with you. I played for maybe five minutes and I was bored. I deleted the app right off my phone.

@Katniss Don’t get me wrong, I like video games, but I know so many people who play this game I’m kind of afraid to check it out. I don’t want to be sucked in. I think I know just enough about it though that it doesn’t look like something I would like.

I’m actually a Tetris junkie. lol
I also play The Sims a lot.
Ohhhhhh…. And SongPop. :0)

Remember the draw of The Tim Tang Test? http://www.timtang.com/ttt/

I won’t admit to just how much time I devoted to it.

Spider Dammmmm

This is funny! I was going to ask this question yesterday, but got distracted.
I had coffee with my brother last week, and he raved about how great that game is, and whether it is possible to get past level 18.
I downloaded it, and played it for about an hour on Sunday, so I feel like I gave it a chance, but I just didn’t see the appeal.
I much prefer Free Cell, or any solitaire game (but especially Russian Spider, which is, without a doubt, the hardest solitaire game ever).

I’m not polluting your feed @jonsblond.
I think I blocked any candy crush notifications when they first came out. I don’t get to much game crap on my feed.

@Judi I know what all the gossipy moms in my area are doing when they are home. It’s not cleaning. ;)

Good question, @jonsblond! I also have many friends who play this endlessly, and I have no idea why. I’ve read a little about it to try to understand the appeal, but I still think it’s mindless and boring.

I don’t have time to get addicted to anything. I also heard that games is the way to get viruses on FB so I don’t even look at games.

I just looked at my FB and the first thing I saw was two large profile pics of people I don’t know. They just got beat by one of my local mommy friends. Do these people know that the friends of everyone they are friends with can see their pic and know they are sucking at this game?

ugh. sometimes I wish it was 1980 again

@jonsblond No, and your friends probably don’t know they’re broadcasting their game habits, either. :P

I have a friend that didn’t realize it was posting to Facebook every time she looked at a guys profile on some dating site.

I just know I’d get sucked in, so I don’t play any FB games at all. I have no time for that! Even though I know I would LOVE Words With Friends. Every time a new game pops up in my feed, I block all notifications for that game. Less tempting that way.

I play the real life version, tossing M&M’s off the heads of unsuspecting passers-by, usually from the safety of an upstairs window/ledge.

I play, mostly because my friends kept sending me requests. I decided to try it. I’ve been stuck on Level 65 for longer than I care to think about and am just about done playing. At least Words With Friends has a (potential) vocabulary building component! My big issue with many of the Facebook games is that to be successful, you have to drag in other people to play with you. That feels a bit like begging and I don’t like it!

You know you can block that app from posting anything to your feed, @jonsblond?

I do know @erichw1504. I don’t mind the litter on my feed, I actually find it fascinating for some odd reason. Everyone plays. It’s interesting that some of my Fluther/fb friends who play haven’t answered this q. ;)