Getting Crushed by Candy

I play a lot of the Candy Crush games on Facebook, at least the first three saga games as the fourth one doesn't seem to be on that platform as of yet.  Unfortunately, I have not been doing too well.  Don't get me wrong, when I get on a roll, I am scoring major points and clearing levels left and right.  The last two weeks or so, I have had problems.  My efforts on Candy Crush Jelly are about the same, but that is my least favorite of the games and the one I have had the least advancement on as well.  It can take me a few days to pass a tougher level, usually only when I get the right daily bonus set up.  Candy Crush Soda hasn't been too fair for me either.  Ever since the game stopped giving out winning streak bonuses, I have had problems.  Sure, I do well enough when I get a candy box team bonus, but I never seem to have a really great teamwork bonus with my current crew, the Violet Puppies.  I didn't choose the name or the crew.  I think I got randomly picked for both.  I have also had problems with level races.  I rarely even get third place, as it takes me days to win just one game, that others I'm competing against can win five or six in the same time period.  My worst problems stem from the original Candy Crush Saga.  Just last week, I was in first place for the weekly weekend challenge.  I was planning on padding my lead, but I forgot to do so before I went to work.  I got delayed, and I wound up getting online after the game had ended.  Because of some unusual programming glitch, certain game functions only work when I use a certain browser to access the game, such as the daily login bonus.  And the prize for the weekend contest as well. So, last Tuesday, I logged in, as usual, around three so I could get the maximum use of the prize as I could, six hours of three different starting bonus pieces each game, as well as a few one-time one ups for the stockpile.  Unfortunately, I came in second as someone overtook my by less than one hundred points.  Maybe they sniped me just enough to take the lead, but I still could have won if I had just remembered to play one last game on one of the levels to rack up extra points.  Meanwhile, I was burning though bonus pieces just to try and get through some tough levels, just waiting for the weekend challenge.  Well, there wasn't a challenge this weekend.  Instead, there was the first in a series of special challenges.  This one was getting through levels on your first try, not a strong suit of mine.  I wound up finishing around ninth, winning a paltry consolation prize.  The second challenge started this morning, where one has to beat levels to score points.  I think I might be able to replay early, easy levels, but I haven't tried that out yet.  Instead, I got an hour long team bonus, just as the time limit for us was drawing near its end and I will get on a new team later on tonight.  I also got to relive a thirty minute music box bonus that I had actually finished last night, a glitch from switching browsers between then and this morning.  I got through a few levels this way, but I had to burn a bunch of tools doing so, all of the regular ones, anyway.  I still have a huge stockpile of starting bonuses in reserve, but even they will go out if I overuse them, even if I have hundreds from the various glitches I spread out over browsers.  I don't know why my gameplay has been suffering these past few weeks.  Yes, many of the levels seems to be a tad harder than usual, but I still should be able to fly by them a little easier than it has been.  Maybe they will get easy again when the game updates.  I replay a few levels for various reasons, and I know that some levels have changed, sometimes greatly, and not always easier.  But what can I do?  Just keep crushing I guess.