The cheapest way to finish a Candy Shorts series

The routine, step by step

Six steps, in the order that keeps the most tokens in your pocket. None of them asks you to spend before you know what the finish price is.

1. Watch episode 1 free. It plays on Candy AI in the Shorts section, in a browser, with no account.
2. Open episode 2 with a free account. Still nothing to pay.
3. Check the On sale page before episode 3. A series on sale charges about 10.2 tokens an episode instead of 12, so 30.6 tokens to finish rather than 36.
4. Compare the tokens to finish with one month of Premium. Premium adds 100 tokens; its shortest plan charges 9.99 USD up front, roughly £7.69 in pounds.
5. Pair two short series in that month. Two par series at 36 tokens make 72, which fits with room left.
6. Do not start the 30-episode series on tokens alone. It needs 336 tokens, more than any single month gives.

Steps 1 and 2: the free opening

2 episodes of every series cost nothing. That is the cheapest part of any finish, and it is the same on all 39 series, star series included. Use it to decide whether a premise holds you before a single token goes in.

A free account opens episode 2 and nothing beyond it. Episode 3 is where the paid part starts, on every series.

Steps 3 and 4: sale price or Premium month

30.6 tokens is the lowest finish on the board. On the latest check that applied to I Won My Best Friend's Girlfriend and Dragon Queen's Dark Desire, among others. Sales move, so look on the day.

For a single series the question is tokens against a month. A month of Premium at 9.99 USD (in pounds that's roughly £7.69) gives 100 tokens. A finish price of 30.6 or 36 uses only part of it; a finish price of 90 or 96 uses nearly all. The higher the finish price, the stronger the case for the month. The Premium plans, side by side lays out all three.

Step 5: two series in one month

100 tokens, two par series, 72 spent. The Witch Who Made Me King plus any other 36-token series is the textbook pair, and the month costs no more than one series would on the same plan.

Two sale series fit even more easily, at 61.2 tokens together. A par series plus a long one does not always fit: Addicted to my stepdad alone runs 10 episodes and needs 96 tokens, which leaves just 4.

Cancel the 1-month plan before it renews if one month was all you wanted, since it moves to 13.99 USD from month 2. In pounds that's roughly £10.77 a month.

Step 6: the 30-episode series

YES MA'AM has 30 episodes, 28 of them paid at 12 tokens: 336 tokens to finish. On the 1-month plan that takes 4 months, 51.96 USD in total (in pounds that's roughly £40.01).

If you expect to keep watching after it, the 12-month plan bills 47.88 USD once for a year of monthly tokens, which in pounds is roughly £36.87. It only makes sense for someone who stays, since the whole year is paid up front.

Four cases, priced

The same sums for four common situations. A star series such as My Wife's Best Friend charges 30 tokens an episode, so its 3 paid episodes come to 90.