Being a bejeweled blitz fan, i am glad that they added more feature to the game in facebook. The interface is still as per the October 2009's game's interface. And they have added some official cheats into the game.
However, there is a catch, you have to earn the cheats yourself. Instead of trying to top the scoring chart, now you collect something a new gem called coins gems.
I have enlarge it for your reference. There are only 2 ways to earn the coins which are listed below
Ways to collect coin gems in Bejeweled Blitz
A coin gem can be treated as a yellow gem. To get 100 points, you have to form a cascade with, of course, the yellow gems. This is the main method. And no, you do not gain bonus coins even if you formed a cascade of 2 coin gems and 1 yellow gem, you will gain only 200 coins.
Additional coins can be gained at the end of every game. Every remaining coin gem will give you 100 coins and every level of multiplier will give you 100 coins as well. Confusing? Here are 2 example.
You have 2 coin gems at the end of the game with a multiplier level of 3x. You gain 2x100 + 3x100 coins.
You have 7 coin gems at the end of the the game and a multiplier level of 2x. You gain 900 coins in this scenario.
New Bejeweled Blitz Boost
As the name states, these booster gems are meant to help with you game, assisting you to gain even more points. There are 5 new booster gems added to the name, which are the mystery boost, the detonator boost, the scrambler boost, plus 5seconds boost and the multiplier boost. And depending on their usefulness, they cost different amount of coins, as shown above.
Once bought, a boost can be used for up to 3 rounds, after which the effect ceases and you have to repurchase and depending on the boost bought, the way the game play enhancement will be different.
Scrambler Boost Gem in Bejeweled Blitz for Facebook
One of the useless boost which i feel that is available. As the name states, it merely scrambles the gems on the board to give you a new view and provide you with new combination to blast the gems away. It can be used twice per game.
Do not buy this unless you have too much coins to spare
+5 Seconds Boost Gem
One of the critical gems to get high score. The 3rd most expensive gem at 5000, but i feel that this is way better than a mysterious unknown gem.
At the end of a game, this is usually where your score racks up extremely fast with the speed bonus and multipliers gathered during the first 40s of the game. If you are an alert player with fast reflexes, this gem is a winning factor for you to rule the scoreboard.
Detonator Booster Gem
It destroys any special gems such as multiplier gem, hyper gem, especially multiplier cubes that are out of reach. A multiplier gem that is destroyed at an earlier stage of the game, gives a big advantage over your score.
However, it should be a pretty rare case, where we are unable to destroy the special gems, hence given a choice, i will not purchase this boost for my game.
Mystery Gem
Do you like surprises? If yes, get this gem, you never know what special gem it is going to give you. If you are lucky, you get a multiplier gem to boost your scores immediately.
If not, a hyper cube will do too. Since destroying a hyper cube is almost 80% guaranteed to drop you a multiplier gem.
As for the rest of the special gems, no thanks, i am not interested. :)
Free Multiplier Boost Gem
The most expensive of all boost at 7.5k coins, which takes me around 10~25 games to accumulate. Though a bit deary, it does pay off itself with the scores i had.
If you are planning to cheat by restarting a lousy game before it ends, well, popcap has already taken prevention to this. If you bought the free multiplier gem boost, and your game has started, the boost is activated. Hence if you restart the game at the 55s remaining mark, say goodbye to your multiplier gem.
However, there are some bugs which i have discovered for these boosters. A boost, if not activated, can be used again.
Take for example the 5s booster gem. As long the game has not reached the last 10s and you restart the game, the booster will automatically activates itself on the next game.
If you like bejeweled blitz, you will definitely like bejeweled twist :)
It is free to download from popcap's website.
If you are not aware, popcap is the creator of bejeweled blitz
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