Sour Skulls

A sour skull is a blocker in Candy Crush Saga. It is an element introduced recently. It first appears in Level 8031.

Skull pedestals, on their own, cannot be damaged. To remove them, you have to make matches next to the sour skull, which moves to a different pedestal each time it is hit. Sour skulls have five layers, and when the skull is removed, so are all of the pedestals. Pedestals can also have other elements hidden behind them, like blockers and ingredients. Once the sour skull is hit, it vanishes for the rest of the turn. It appears on another skull pedestal after all cascades have ended on the turn it was hit. Because of this, it is only possible to clear one sour skull layer per move. When a skull pedestal flashes it means that it will be the one that the Sour Skull will be on next time it moves.

The amount of skull pedestals in a level can vary but usually there must be at least two of them so the sour skull can move.


 * In Level 8594, the sour skull always disappears and reappears on the same skull pedestal, despite being multiple skull pedestals in said level.
 * In Level 8712, there is only one skull pedestal. It also disappears and reappears on the same skull pedestal.

The sour skull's movement can be either variable or fixed. In some levels, the sour skull starts on a random skull pedestal and moves to a random one every time it is hit. In other levels, the sour skull always starts on the same pedestal and moves in a fixed pattern. In levels with more than five skull pedestals, the skull will not land on every pedestal before it is destroyed.