Thanks for the input, Louie. I knew how to make it happen but didn't know exactly what the criterion was!
Julia G.
Comments: Louie
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:16:58
Eliminating 12 or more gems in a single move will cause a multiplier to drop. That's the only criteria as far as I know. That's why your strategy with the exploding gems works, and why hypercubes sometimes don't.
It looks like the Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook has been changed (and improved IMHO). Higher scores are easier to get now.
From my observation, when I played it before,it was impossible to get a 3X gem if you had not matched or exploded the 2X gem. Now you can get multiple 2X gems, and when one is matched or exploded, the next 2X gem on the board becomes a 3X gem, and so on.
However, in the previous version, it was a little easier to match the 2X gem that you got, so in this version, maneuvering the gem into place is more important.
The 2X, 3X, 4X gems are not based on getting a big score with a move; otherwise, you would get one every time you used a hypercube. I think it's a combination of the speed in making moves combined with the number of cascades the moves make.
PopCap is having a drawing based on your Facebook Team scores in a few days, so grab your Facebook friends and combine your scores. Any time one of your Facebook friends plays Bejeweled Blitz, their highest score is added to your team score.
So far, my high score is 247,200. I haven't come close to that since I made it, but I have had a few scores in the 150,000-165,000 range.
Try it! You'll like it! :-)
Julia G
Hi All,
I was playing Bejeweled 2 (so what else is new?), and I came across this screen scenario and thought it would make a good "What Would You Do?" puzzle for you.
There is no *absolute* answer here, but I have a reasoning and strategy behind which move I would make next, so see which move you would make and I'll give you my thoughts tomorrow.
I did the screen shot with the "help" arrow pointing at the next move the game suggests, but it's not the move I would make.
Happy Gem Matching!
Julia G
I used to hate the automatic "hint" in Bejeweled 2 - to me it was a sign of failure if I couldn't figure out what move to make before the automatic hint showed me.
I thought I had 15 seconds to determine where the move was, but I timed it the other day and it looks like it's only ten.
Well, since I started playing Bejeweled online in the timed version against others, I've begun to look at the hint in a different way.
When you play the timed version, ten seconds out of a couple of minutes is a LOT of time!
Big warning, though... in the timed version, it looks like every hint you take removes points from your score! You really do have to be pretty desperate to use it!
But then, if you wait the ten seconds, you lose points, too, so it's really a toss up in losing time or points... or sometimes both when you're playing the Bejeweled online timed version!
Also, when playing the Action version of Bejeweled 2, the hint can be the difference between keeping your game going, and running out of time.
I still like to try to "beat the hint" in Bejeweled 2 Classic, and try to avoid the hints in the timed games that are played for prize money, but the hint CAN be "friend" in a dire situation!
Happy Gem Matching!
Julia Gemstone
Be sure to check out my new eBook - "Bejeweled 2 Secrets!"
I'm a big fan of Firefox and Flock as my browsers of choice, but unfortunately, the online games don't usually work with them.
Everybody seens to jump on the Internet Explorer bandwagon and forgets the others!
So if you want to play Bejeweled 2 online, you'll have the best luck starting with Internet Explorer. All of the versions I've played have required an activeX installation or other kind of plug-in, and so far my computer hasn't experienced any adverse affects from the downloads.
So if you've held back from upgrading to the newest version of Internet Explorer, it's probably a good idea to make that move to keep up with online gaming!
Julia Gemstone
I'm just an ordinary person - no special powers when it comes to game playing. I just gained skills playing Bejeweled by playing it a LOT -- while on conference calls, in airports, as a prelude to sleep, as a wake-up before work... ALL the time!
I love the way the gems fall from above, the sounds of a power gem exploding and a hyper cube being created. When the sounds disturb others, I can play the game with the sound turned off and just imagine the sounds that they make and the narrator applauding my moves with and "Excellent" or Incredible!"
And I consistently play games with scores over 500,000 - many over a million.
My computer crashed in April - the one with every game in my "high scores" list over 2 million, and I've since played on my laptop and racked up scores from a low of 1,640,817 to 5,097,547 since I started playing it there.
I thought that this addiction needed channeling, so I created this blog to be able to find others who are also addicted, and share some of my tricks.
It's definitely NOT a "Bejeweled Anonymous" blog - and I take no responsibility for further corrupting the lives of those who are as addicted as I am, so don't blame me if your butt gets bigger because you're playing more Bejeweled and exercising less! :-)
I hope you gain some insight and realize that you don't have to be "Rainman" to score big in Bejeweled 2 Deluxe on your computer or Bejeweled Online!
Julia Gemstone
How was I to know when I first played Bejeweled that I would be as addicted as I am! It seemed like such a simple game by PopCap Games but I discovered it to be an irresistible, strategy-laden phenomenon that has swept the world!
Not only can you play Bejeweled 2 Deluxe in the comfort of your own home, but it has spread to online playing for money, and the latest news is that Bejeweled is available for Apple's iPhone -- pretty soon they'll be taking it onto the Spaceship Endeavor! Well, OK... maybe I'm getting a bit carried away! :-)
If you've played the game, you know how hypnotizing the colored gems, power gems, hyper cubes and wild explosions of gems on the 8 X 8 gem grid can be, and if you're like me, you learned how to play the hard way... by trial and error.
If you did learn that way, you went through a lot of pain. The rules are easy but the help is scarce! I couldn't find any strategy guides or hints beyond the four or five pop-up windows provided by the game when you play it for the first time.
I thought it was about time to remedy that. There are specific strategies that you can take to give yourself higher scores in a shorter amount of time, and continue playing the game longer, wracking up higher and higher scores, and I plan to help you with that!
For instance... if you've played for any length of time, you know that you should play from the top down, rather than the bottom up. Playing from the bottom up is the fastest way to get that "NO MORE MOVES" message, and just knowing that hint, you can double your score!
The great thing is that you can practice the game from your computer if you downloaded it from all of the many places you could do so, and then take that knowledge with you when you play Bejeweled online against others. It's a total win-win situation!
I have other clues and strategy tips. I don't consistently get scores in the millions for nothing! (yes, that picture has EIGHT hypercubes on it!)
:-)
Julia Gemstone
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