Crappy Bejeweled 2 sitautions you've always feared

[birmu]

Have you ever played Bejeweled 2 and found yourself in a really crappy situation where it seems as though you could create a lot of power gems or hyper cubes but you really can't? Then you're at the right thread. Feel free to post some of your crappiest in-game screenshots(640x480 to keep the thread clean) to compete with the rest (currently just mine). I'll start it off with one that just happened a couple minutes ago(I ended up scoring 10745 on this game ):

[Jacob]

Haha, that does suck. I would swap the red gems right under the horizontal hyper setup, and hope that a green gem spawns on the 3rd column. If one does, you could do a vertical swap and pray for an orange gem to line up with your vertical hyper setup. If it doesn't spawn, throw the vertical setup away to regain control over the center of the board.

But hey, you scored 10745 off that game...so things must have worked out for you

[Renaldo Moon]

Being that it's King.com's version, and power gems are so useful, I'd have also swapped the red gems, dropping the two oranges on the left one space, setting up a power-gem. After you take that power-gem, it would set up a second power-gem with the remaining orange pieces.

[Jacob]

Johan, I agree with you...I didn't even see that possibility until now! Though in an actual game, I would have probably gone for the powergem after swapping those red cubes. It's kinda hard for me to see 2-3 moves ahead with a static image -- maybe that's something I should work on to improve my game.

[Grengoddess]

Haha, that does suck. I would swap the red gems right under the horizontal hyper setup, and hope that a green gem spawns on the 3rd column. If one does, you could do a vertical swap and pray for an orange gem to line up with your vertical hyper setup. If it doesn't spawn, throw the vertical setup away to regain control over the center of the board.

But hey, you scored 10745 off that game...so things must have worked out for you

true it is better to get powergems in the king version. going for hypercubes at king serves no purpose other than to get more bombs XD