@blessedjoyful1 Level 1251 – Earthly Excavation – Clear Gravel and 25 Butterflies in 30 moves.
This is a difficult level and I had to use quite a few powers to complete with 3 Stars. The key is to break all the gravel (or wood blocks) within a short number of moves to allow enough butterflies to generate. Only one butterfly generates per move, regardless of how many lower squares are free of gravel, so try to break all gravel in the first 8-10 moves. You can do this by using the Wild Bull in the lower three rows then work to form a Hyper Cube, by using the Tile Swapper (or use a Hyper Swapper, but a Tile Swapper is less gems) and place a Star Swapper next to it and match the two. This should clean up all the gravel. In the next 18-20 moves, work to kill all the butterflies you can. When you have 2 moves left, you may see that you will not have enough butterflies, so use Fast Forward as many times as needed to make sure that you will be able to get the required 25 butterflies. Then place Flame Swappers to kill all butterflies and ignite them with the Detonator. I scored 183,700 using this method in 30 moves.
It’s a lot, I know, but I don’t have a more efficient solution. Good luck!
PS I don’t like to use coins for extra moves.
