Candy Crush addicts come clean: 'Life's too short for sliding candies around'
Candy Crush addicts come clean: 'Life's too short for sliding candies around' Candy Crush users spent $493m in 2013, leading to burned retinas and empty wallets. We scoured the web for tales of your app addiction The number of glassy-eyed, finger-swiping Candy Crush Saga users who live among us is staggering: 93m people play this sweet little app more than 1bn times per day . To be an addict, by definition, is to habituate to something compulsively or obsessively. Candy Crushers can be found riding trains and buses around the world, missing their stops, tripping onto platforms and wandering into crowds of people. They're sitting at the desk next to you, heads down, twitchy fingers trailing set of jelly-looking fruits. They search for quiet places to play, away from kids and spouses, and find themselves locked in the bathroom, trying not to drop the phone into the bathwater. Perhaps you are reading this with a blush of recognition. Photograph: Google But this goes b