Pick one section on the bottom, left or right, and clear the fire with as many 4 and 5 letter words as possible. You can start the words above. Don't worry about the rest of the board. Try to only make 4-5 letter words. That way you have the right tiles available.

First thing to do is remove the clouds that throw lightning to eliminate them from adding obstacles. Then, as soon as possible, try to create two 8 letter words (there's a nice selection of letters) and use them in a word together. That will clear all the green stuff and lots of letters from the board. I passed it easily after that.

I made it through 284 the first time I tried it AFTER it dawned on me what the key to this level is. You simply need to get rid of all the frozen pastries first before you can get rid of the ones along the sides. Make as many of the row eliminating pasty matches as possible (the T and cross match boosts) it was super simple after I figured that out!

I passed it! You just need to keep doing a combination of what I described above and also make as many 5 lines to eliminate the colors below the donuts/cookies that need to drop into the glaze, as well as making Ts and crosses of colors above those donuts/cookies which also eliminates the colors below them. Eventually it WILL happen!

I've yet to pass 273 but I think I may have figured out the trick. You have to get four pastry faces into the glaze at the bottom left. There are only yellow ovens above them and one pastry below each blocking them. You don't need yellow pasties at all, just purple. However, if you continue to match above the ovens and make those yellow pastures it seems to attract the pesky squirrels to eat the pastries below the ones you need to drop into the glaze- thus allowing you to pass (I'm hoping!) I'll be back to let you know if this works!

The best advice I have for this level is the just make as many 5 matches and cross matches as possible of any colors since the more of the other colors you eliminate, the more purple ones (that you need) will drop down into the field. It really didn't take all that long for me to pass it once I ignored trying to just get purple ones together. Good luck!

You have to make another match five lighting gummy to switch with the bomb one. This can't be done until you break the chain by exploding a gummy booster (like the one that takes out a row or explodes what is around it) first.

When you start out there is one colored "drop" in the center of the sand (at the bottom) Get a lighting boost (by matching five) and then match it with whatever color started in the middle of the sand (which is likely now covered) That should clear the way.