Bejewelled2

(App, USA)

A board game, on a 8x8 board, full of fields of six colors (represented as differnt jewels, to give it a theme and remind of several similar games in the past), where at every move (which consists of swapping places of two adjacent fields horizontally or vertically) you must line up three of a kind in a row. They then vanish and the fields above fall into the vacant spots, all the way up, and new ones appear on top. Scoring 4 in a row gives you an exploding gem which will later clear a 3x3 field around itself; 5 leaves a different one which can match any color, a wildcard; once used, it makes all the gems of that color vanish.

Go had this game on her iPhone (or was it iPod?) when she visited in december 2008. I wanted to buy it myself, but it cost 10$ for PC and 2,50$ for Macs and iStuff. The easiest way to get me pissed off (in PC speak, deurinated) is to discriminate against me by some silly grouping. So I never bought it, but for the next 8-9 years found places where it could be played online. On the last one I was the world champion among the few dozen people who still bothered to play it. My top score was above 2 million.

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Mentions: 06-XII-2008., 02-VI-2009., 23-VIII-2011., 17-X-2011., 02-IV-2014., 05-IV-2015., 25-I-2024., 16-II-2024., 14-V-2024., Gorana Sredljević (Go), in serbian