Last night, I was on a mission. I would not be denied! Tary had beaten my high score for this week in Bejeweled Blitz and she just had to let me know while we were at our friends' house (S.I. and J.W.). On top of this, Tary had a monster game last week where she scored in the high 400,000s; her personal best which easily beat anything I have ever done. I hate losing...
After we got home last night while sitting up in bed, I was determined to at least beat Tary's high score for this week. I got into a zone. I was on fire! Jewels were exploding left and right. Oh the carnage! They never knew what hit them. Muwahaha! 60 seconds later, the number "569,000" stared back at me on my iPhone...a new personal best! Not only did I beat Tary's high score of the week, I also destroyed her all-time high score.
On top of that, I had done the impossible! I beat the all-time high score of my long-time nemesis, J.W.. She was a worthy adversary who always topped my weekly leaderboard. Not anymore! I am now King of the Hill! Well, at least until next Tuesday when the leaderboards are reset again.
What's kind of ironic is that we were at S.I. and J.W.'s house a few minutes earlier to try out their new grill. Perhaps the perfect blend of lightly seasoned steak combined with A.D.'s spicy steak sauce and cooked at J.W.'s house provided me the energy I needed to finally beat her score in Bejeweled Blitz!
Ahh...569,000 points. I'm so happy, it makes me want to start singing. This reminds me of the song "Seasons of Love" from the musical RENT.
/sings
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Bejeweled Blitz points.
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Colors so dear.
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Bejeweled Blitz points.
How many games have I played this year?
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Bejeweled Blitz points.
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Explosions to plan.
Five hundred sixty-nine thousand
Bejeweled Blitz points.
This game can consume the life
of a woman or a man.
Techniques that I've learned,
Helped my score get so high,
The star gems, they burned,
Each point was multiplied!
It's time now, to play now,
Though the game, it never ends
Let's celebrate
Sixty seconds in the life of gems
Remember the love!
Remember the love!
Bejeweled Blitz love!
There is clearly a technique here that I am missing... I can't break 300,000 and you peeps are getting 400s and now, the holy grail, the 500s...
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I think a few things that helped me score higher was to first learn to play faster, just matching 3 gems at a time as fast as I could. That only takes you so far, maybe in the 200s.
ReplyDeleteThen I started playing games at 80% fast, but a little more thoughtful. Before making my first move, I would scan the entire board and note the most frequent colors. Then I would try to make the 4-gems and make as many as I could. If you pop two of those 4-gems together, you usually get a multiplier. Then you want to break each multiplier as soon as they appear. The key is to get the multiplier to go to 8x or higher.
Also try to look for star gems...the T or L shapes. When you break those, you are pretty much guaranteed to get a new multiplier.
Then continue to look for 4-gems. And keep popping them as fast as you can. Break a few 3-gems if you can't find any 4-gems. Hit the hint button when you get stuck. You can often keep your streaks alive by using that button.
If you then see a lot of one color, try popping the other colors so that the gems of that first color all collapse on each other forming bigger gems. This will help increase the rates of getting those hypercubes (those 5 gems in a row). If you get those, try to match a multiplier on the board first. If not, just break the color that appears most on the board.
And that's about it. It's kind of random. Most of the time, I struggle to get to 200,000. Last night was just one of those special games :)
Wow! what an incredible score. No wonder you were driven to sing about it.
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