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Secrets to Winning Bejeweled Blitz

The online game Bejeweled Blitz, hosted on the social networking site Facebook, has highly addictive qualities. Playing one game on your computer can easily turn into an hour-long session of trying to beat your highest score or the scores your friends have posted. The game's object is to get three common jewels all touching in a horizontal or vertical row. You do that by swapping jewels that are side-by-side.

Play Fast
- Winning Bejeweled Blitz favors those who can think fast and make successive moves quickly. According to Tony Herman's website, Tonyherman.com, the speed bonus makes regular moves worth 1,250 points when the speed meter is maxed out. A regular move is worth 250 points, plus whatever speed bonus you have, if any. You need to make three matches in two seconds to start the speed bonus meter, and the higher you get on the meter, the slower the meter recedes. The speed bonus caps at 1,000 points.
  
  Keep your speed bonus up for an extended amount of time and you will start to fill your speed bonus meter. The text displayed for your speed bonus will change color from white to orange. Once your meter is full, you will be in Blazing Speed. Each match will give you the same effect as detonating a Flame Gem until Blazing Speed subsides.
Link More Than Three Jewels
- Making three common jewels touch causes them to disappear and adds to your point total. If you can chain of four or five jewels, you will be rewarded with the chance to glean even more points. According to the Nick Lee Lifestyle website, creating a chain of four jewels of the same type, or making two different three-jewel chains with one move, will bring up a Power Crystal. A chain of five makes a Hyper Gem. That Power Crystal or Hyper Gem can then be used as a wild card, meaning that you can substitute it for any type of gem. When you use the Power Crystal or Hyper Gem and make a combo, a multiplier jewel will appear. That multiplier, which starts with 2x and increases with each occurrence, makes each move for the rest of the game worth twice or three times its original value.
Make Moves Before the Game Starts
- A short lag before the timer starts gives you the chance to make moves, which means that a one-minute timed game can actually be about three seconds longer (one minute and three seconds total) if you start early. According to the Tutorialsxo website, you can move gems before the timer begins, and once the time begins to tick away, the corresponding jewel movements will take place. Making moves lower on the board can cause a cascading effect above, so your game can begin with successive combinations.

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