How to Get More Lives on Candy Crush

Like most games with a built-in social networking aspect, Candy Crush allows you to ask (read: beg) your friends for extra lives. Here’s how this works.

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   Connect your Facebook account. Asking friends for life is only possible if your Facebook account is connected to Candy Crush. Click on the connect button on the Candy Crush home screen.
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   Allow Candy Crush to post to your friends on your behalf. This will allow the game to contact your friends when you want more lives, or boosters, but will not post status updates on your behalf. This will also sync your gameplay with your Facebook account so you can play Candy Crush on Facebook as well and still see the progress synced with your phone app.You will see the following three screens after you give permission.
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   Ask your friends to gift you extra lives. Once you’ve gone through the process of connecting your Facebook and Candy Crush account, you need to click on the "Ask Friends" button to get them to send you extra lives when you run out.
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   Choose the friends who want to ask. You’ll see a page giving you a list of your Facebook friends. Choose the ones you want to ask for extra lives. Remember that you can’t have more than 5 lives at a time, so there’s no need to ask 20 people as you won’t be able to use all those lives together. It’s more recommended to ask a few friends at a time, rather than spamming their accounts with requests every day.
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The cat’s out of the bag. This is the easiest, cheapest and quickest way to get more lives. Every Candy Crush addict needs to know this trick as you’ll have a full set of lives in less than a minute. Note: While this trick works on all mobile platforms, the screenshots are from iOS 7.

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   Go to Settings > General > Date & Time. The trick simply moves your phone’s times a few hours ahead so you can get the free lives, then back (this is important), before you actually start playing.
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   Move the time on your phone a few hours ahead.You have to turn off the option to set time automatically for this. It’s easier to go one day or one month forward, as it’s simpler to change days or months as opposed to moving the hour counter. In this example we’ve gone one day forward.
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   Go back to the game. You’ll see you have full lives. Don’t start playing just yet. Go back to Settings > General > Date & Time and fix the time. It’s easiest to set time to “Set automatically” as it will use your carrier to determine the correct time and automatically adjust.
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