I compete with friends and some family. Well, something fishy is going on. Not monumental, but they all get over 150,000. They say you can reduce the number of colors and the background color for better viewing. Is this true. Help from the black sheep of the family.

There is no legal way to do this. If your family and friends are reducing the number of colors of gems, then it is done illegally.

My only question is, what kind of fun is that? It doesn't make sense to me.

I have used game cheats in the past. When I had a Nintendo, I got a Magin Boy, but I was playing with others who had the same advantages in the game. Wanting to take advantage of a cheat when your fellow Facebook friends got their high scores through practice and skill is like taking a taxi to the end of a marathon so you can finish first. It only makes that person a loser.

You make it sound simple to use the multiples, but I get them to match sometimes but not others. I add it to the middle or end but there has to be a better explaination of just how you use the multiple.

You are absolutely right - it's not always easy to get the multipliers to match. But it's a one-minute game, and if the game isn't going the way you'd like, you can stop it and start over without having your score entered into your statistics.

One thing I did notice, though, is that if you can't match a multiplier, and you get a second one, the second one is generally easier to match, and after that the first one also becomes more easy to match.

Julia G
 
 

Note added 10/16/2009: This message was originally written when the first Bejeweled Blitz Game was in play. With the new version, much higher scores are possible. I have had scores in the 400,000s and someone commented that she had a score of 511,000.

It is still possible to cheat, and a score of 511,000 is very rare, so scores above that may be suspect.

Julia G

Comment from DeeDee:

"It says on my score board that one of my friends got 12 MILLION some odd tonite on Blitz. Have you ever heard of that?"

Well, to be blunt, a score of 12 million is an indication that your friend cheated with a program that automatically plays the game.

I don't know if PopCap disqualifies people who cheat from receiving their weekly prizes, but IMHO, I think they should. Any score over 300,000 is suspect (I would even stretch that to 350,000, but I've never heard of a score that high).

If Blitz is ever changed to store the replay of the highest scoring game, this might be easier to detect in the future, because a "bot" would be easy to spot during a replay.

If I were you, I'd make sure your team score was over a million without your "friend's" score.

Julia G

 
 

Hi All,

By popular demand, I wrote "Bejeweled Blitz Secrets" - a strategy guide for accumulating higher scores in Facebook's Bejeweled Blitz.

Bejeweled Blitz Secrets

In this guide, I explain how to:

- Get consistently higher scores.
- Understand and get more multipliers.
- Put the speed in your speed bonus.
- Sit at the top of your weekly Facebook friends' Bejeweled Blitz score list.

This guide contains many tips never mentioned on this blog before, along with video examples. You can use it to get the "edge" on your Facebook team scoring list.

I've added this as a free bonus with the purchase of my original "Bejeweled 2 Secrets" strategy guide.

(I sent this guide to everyone who has purchased the original Bejeweled 2 guide, so if you did buy my guide, but didn't get the Blitz bonus guide, please let me know!)

Check it out here:

Bejeweled Blitz Secrets

Happy Gem Matching!
Julia G