Y will swap with the gem above the cursor, A with the gem below, etc. The analogue stick moves your cursor around, while the face buttons swap the selected gem in whatever direction the face button points. A match of three like-coloured gems grants points matches of four or five grant extra points as well as special gems that, when matched, destroy even more surrounding gems for even more points.īejeweled’s controls translate well to the 360. I’d like to assume that pretty much everyone knows how Bejeweled works by now but just in case: you have a grid of different coloured gems, and the ability to swap gems that are next to each other to make matches. In truth it’s probably a little of both, but there’s still that nagging doubt in my head that, actually, I’m just terrible at Bejeweled.ĭespite the shame I now associate with the name Bejeweled, despite the horrible feeling that I’m awful at it no matter how well I score, I really have to recommend Bejeweled Blitz Live as being one of the most addictive and enjoyable versions of Bejeweled out there. So either I’m rubbish at Bejeweled, or she’s some sort of gem-matching savant. It’s probably for the best – if she’d been using a mouse they’d probably have had to start listing her scores using exponents. To add insult to injury, she wasn’t using a mouse, but a vastly inferior laptop touchpad. First she was scoring 150,000 in every single game. Then, all of a sudden, something seemed to click in her mind. For a few weeks things were fine she lagged behind a little on my friends’ leaderboard, but not so badly that she got fed up.
This was long before it had power-ups you could pay for at the time, it was down to pure skill. A few years ago, after I’d been toying with it for a month or two, I introduced my then-girlfriend to the Bejeweled Blitz Facebook app.