i got around 130,000 points and needed 90,000 to beat level 98 but it didn't say sugar crushed....kept going until a bomb blew.......Anyone have any idea what might have happened?

I finally crushed it after one month!!
It was quick once I figured out thah the only possibility of gaining enough points is crashing bombs with THE COLOR candy (the one that is made out of 5 candies). It makes crush all bombs and every one of them gives 3065 (or so..) pointrs !!!
Same I got over 98 easyly and almost immediately !

This helped me. There's no magic solution though.
http://candycrushsagahelp.blogspot.com/p/candy-crush-saga-level-97-tips.html

found a way to do it very easy!! swap a color bomb with any bomb and wow the points went up like crazy and I was 1 on leader board !

Like magic, as soon as I found this page, I beat the level on my first try! I've been stuck on this level for over a week. It really comes down to this: don't make a move unless you can burst a bomb or create a special candy. Try to line up stripeys and wrapped candies so you can clear the board, but speckled candies really don't make a difference. The time that I beat the level, I think I only made four "regular" moves, and the rest either burst bombs or created stripeys or wraps. It really is a matter of luck to a certain degree. Good luck!

Level 97 is pretty tough, this guide helped me a lot - http://gamewise.co/games/46233/Candy-Crush-Saga/Walkthrough

Here is a good Howto vid with explanation.. Good luck..
explained in a few minutes:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LzeT72ViPY

or

I have used about 30 lives so far trying to beat level 97... Just lost with a score of 99,600. I am about to throw my computer out of the window

Video walkthrough for Candy Crush Saga Level 97

I'm stuck in this level.. The fact that you have to get 100K points in 25 moves.. I don't get 4 or more combination of candies to make striped or wrapped or special ball.. I can only get 50+, 60+ or 70+.. This level is one of the hardest..

I've been stuck for the longest time on this and I started searching for genuine tips and came across this page. Read the tips from other players and cleared the level the first time I tried it. Of course there is a certain element of luck. I got 2 x wrapped sweets / striped sweets close to the beginning and then the rest I did with clearing individual lines with stripeys and blowing up wrapped sweets. I rarely got speckled candies on this level and I found that because there are so few candies on the board anyway the switching speckled candies with stripeys didn't generate enough points anyway. Hope this helps.

i also am stuck. yesterday i came the closest so far. i got 2 of the speckled balls together and they took out the entire board. took me up to 93K. whew hoping to beat this level soon

Try playing via your facebook account!

97 & 98 can only be beaten by combining wrapped & striped candies, or striped candies with the speckled special ball. I finally managed to beat them both by these combos. Now I'm stuck on another level....lol

Well I've been on level 97 for more than a month! If I really had a bomb I think I would use it to blow up this game. I am so frustrated! If anyone can help me I'd be forever grateful!

Same here!! No matter what I try I just can not complete this level!!!!!

I am thinking of just giving up on candy crush altogether. I'm fed up with it.

I hear you I too am stuck on that level.....seems IMPOSSIBLE to complete at this moment I don't like how it quits on you if you DON"T break the bombs!!!

Im feeling your pain Sherry I have been there for a week and been through at least 50 or 60 lives. I got close at 92,000 points...ONCE! Most of the time its 60 to 75K. Ive done everything I know to rack up points quickly but to no avail. It simply does not drop enough bombs in combination to be able to get enough points...other levels have been difficult but I could always see it was beatable, I just had to get the right combinations in the right places. But this level doesnt even seem doable unless the game simply decides to spit you a crap load of multiple bombs to blow up in a single move...one bomb at a time is not going to get it done or even a couple at one time...you need to score at least 4000 points on each move. so for every move you dont blow something up, you have to make up for with at least 8000 points and if you dont blow something up in 3 moves then its 12000 and so on...its ridiculous!

Chris