![]() ![]() ![]() Make enough matches to move the horizontal timing bar all the way to the right and it’s on to the next level. Matched gems disappear causing those above to drop down and, hopefully, create other matches for extra points. Three-in-a-row is the minimum, four-in-a-row transforms into an explosive Power Gem, and five-in-a-row delivers a Hyper Cube with the power to destroy all gems of one color. In Classic mode, the playing field consists of 64 sparkling gems that you need to swap, two at a time, in order to create horizontal or vertical rows of the same color. It takes about five - no, make that three - seconds to learn, it’s fun to play, and should you ever tire of it, there are three other modes to try - all winners. At first, it looks familiar but only because Bejeweled was one of the first - perhaps the first - three-in-a-row game of which there have been a zillion-and-one knockoffs. If you’ve never tried Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, it’s worth giving it a go. And, last year, it was inducted into CGW’s Hall Of Fame, the first puzzle game so honored since Tetris 19 years ago. When you’re done with most, when you’ve gotten as high a score as you think you’ll ever get, off they go, zapped from your desktop into that virtual game closet in the sky, never to be seen again.īut there are some exceptions, some that are worth revisiting simply because they are little gems that are so beautifully done, you may have forgotten how good they really are.īejeweled 2 Deluxe is one of those, the 2004 reworking of the original "Bejeweled" game that had won Computer Gaming World’s award for the Puzzle Game Of The Year in 2001. ![]()
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