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Here is a tutorial for Puzzle Mana, created by…yours truly! Enjoy.

Have you been playing Candy Crush on King.com and wondering if there were cheats available to get those magical high scores of 150,000 or more? Well, I unfortunately don’t have any cheats to offer…but I have a strategy guide that’ll have you winning money in no time! So, to give a brief background of myself as a player…

I had been playing “match 3″ games such as Bejeweled for 2 years and have made thousands of dollars along the way on King.com. I hit it big with consistently high placings on progressives, and Bejeweled was my main source of winnings on that site. Big cash withdrawals were coming in every 2 weeks, and life as a gamer was good. But then…last February, Popcap decided to end their licensing deal with King.com and Bejeweled was one of the games to stop being offered to play. Well, crap…there went the cash train! I no longer had money coming in from King.com — I was able to scrape a few bucks from freeroll tournaments and have a short lived winning streak from playing Farm King, but that was it. However, that was soon to change.

Last spring, King.com released its own version of a ”match 3″ game to replace Bejeweled — the now popular game of Candy Crush. Though it didn’t quite have the same amount of production value of Popcap’s Bejeweled, I figured I might as well give the game a shot and see if I could hit it big again. Initially it was tough adjusting to the game mechanics…the power-ups work differently from the typical version of Bejeweled, and Candy Crush is a slightly slower paced game. I had a hard time getting past 130,000 points on a consistent basis. But after a thousand cash games of it, I finally have the game down and I’m raking it in again…

(You’ll want to click on this….)

It’s not first place, but that’s a guaranteed $120.00+ going into my pocket…and I’ve been placing consistently high every time I play. So, how do I do it? Enough of the dramatic backstory…let’s move on to the important stuff!

My Strategy

Candy Crush is all about one thing: using the “special” candy pieces to create special effects. Yes, hitting big combinations of chains definitely helps towards hitting high scores…but a big part of long chains is sheer luck, aside from having power-ups in the first place to set up chains. So, it goes without saying that you need to create special pieces whenever the opportunity arrives…I personally don’t go out of my way to create a special piece with 2+ moves unless it’s a “Color Candy” (5 in a row) I’m trying to get, but I just play the center of the board and create the pieces as I go.

Aside from creating special pieces, the big part of Candy Crush is USING THEM PROPERLY! If you just let your special pieces sit unused (unless it’s towards the last 20 seconds), you aren’t allowing yourself to score to your full potential. If you find yourself “slowing down” and just swapping regular pieces, you need to let your special pieces go loose…you want to spend as least time as possible swapping regular pieces with nothing leading into special effects.

The main bread and butter of a high score is combining a “Striped Candy” with a Color Candy to create a “Super Stripe” effect. A Super Stripe creates the effect of having all of the Striped Candy’s color turn into Striped Candy, and they all consecutively detonate. It is not only a big source of points, but it is also THE best way to make progress through a level. I can’t stress this enough — USE A SUPER STRIPE AS SOON AS THE OPPORTUNITHY IS AVAILABLE. IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE TOWARDS THE END OF A LEVEL, OR EVEN IF IT’S LEVEL 1!!! USE IT!!! I also sometimes find that If I swap other pieces before I do a Super Stripe, pieces move around and I lose one of my special pieces to create it…so literally use it as soon as you can.

That being said, the other special effects are very good too. I really like using the “Wrapped Candy” in conjunction with a Color Candy…having three rows and three columns go away in a flash boosts your score & level progression quite a bit! I also like using individual pieces by themselves…I’ll use a Striped Candy if my playing board seems dead (as I mentioned to do above), or if I can use it to set up a Color Candy. Also, having two Wrapped Candies detonate in conjunction with each other can open up potential for a big chain…it doesn’t always happen, but it’s definitely worth a shot.

One effect that is underrated (in my opinion) is the “Mega Candy”. That’s when you have two Color Candy pieces swapped with each other to have all the pieces on your board clear. Yes, it doesn’t have as high of scoring potential as the Super Stripe…but note that the Super Stripe takes some time on the clock to perform, while a Mega Candy only takes about 6 seconds. If I had to make a choice in a live game between the Mega Candy and a Super Stripe, I’d still pick the Super Stripe….but go ahead and use the Mega Candy whenever you can.

As far as big chains go, a big part of it IS luck. There’s no denying it. But if you want to score in the 200,000+ range consistently (yes, it can be done!) then there are ways to maximize your chances of getting 15+ move chains. My favorite setup is using a Wrapped Candy with a Color Candy to clear out two colors, ALONG with having other Wrapped Candy pieces on the board. This has gotten me 15+ move chains so many times and I believe it’s made the difference in having me consistently win.

Another thing that’s important, aside from the game itself — playing the right tournaments to keep your ranking in check & maximizing the amount of cash coming in. After trying out all the tournament & cash entry formats, I have to say that your best chances of consistently turning up a profit are in the Cup games and the Progressives. I personally stick to the Cup tournaments (both the non-booster and the booster version), along with the booster version of the Progressive. I really love the Booster version…having instant hints that point out swaps leading into special moves makes Candy Crush turn into easy mode. BTW, King.com will probably move up my rank if they ever read this….but you can EASILY keep your rank unchanged just by playing the Cup tournaments and trying to make a consistent win over other players. You can’t win em’ all, but the games you lose will drop your rank enough to keep you in check…even after a few hundred dollars have been won. Sounds unbelieveable and I’ll probably regret releasing the info, but give it a shot and you’ll see what I mean.

One last thing — I personally try to hit score “milestones” in Candy Crush while I’m racing the clock. That is to say, I want to have a certain score versus the time remaining left. I do this just as a reminder that I need to be playing faster or have my special effects go off. To score in the 170,000+ range regularly, here’s what I go for:

3:00 — 20,000

2:00 — 70,000

1:00 — 100,000 or more

I know my goals from 3:00 to 2:00 to 1:00 doesn’t make sense, but who cares…as long as you have 100,000 by the time there’s 1 minute left on the clock, you’re in the running of making a high score. And if you’re still struggling with 70,000 with 1 minute left…it’s time to hustle and make magic happen.

So…that’s about it! If you have any questions or if there’s anything I left out, feel free to register & write a post in our forum section (http://www.cashgamers.net/forums). I’m having an awesome time making big bucks on King.com again, and I’ll be even happier if my advice leads others into winning jackpots!

From my experience, BJ2 on WW is all about the hyper cubes – once you have them you it’s a matter of advancing through those levels as fast as you can.

My golden rules for top scores are:

• Use hypergems (5 in a row) as soon as they spawn, the only time to save them for the next level is; if you’re on level 1 and you have les then 50 points to go or on level 2 with 50 points left before level 3!
• explosive gems need to be destroyed as soon as possible, don’t let them linger as they decrease the chance of figuring out how to make 5 in a row
• Once you set off a hyper gem, the chances of making another hyper gem is greater ( 6 color gems on screen rather then 7)
• On WorldWinner, don’t make more then 3 hyper gems in any one level, there is a bug that crashes the game when you make the 4th.
• Aim#1 should be to advance through the levels as fast as possible – the higher the level, the more points you get per a gem = higher final score
• There are certain patterns you can use to increase the chance of getting 5 in a row – like drop ins from off board to fill the middle of 5!
• Some boards have hyper gems ‘given’ to you (1st move) learn to identify those optunitys quick!
• In a tournament, if someone else has scored 13k+, then you know there is at least one good board in that tournament – so try again you might strike it lucky
• Play with the sound on, so you know when you are running out of time.

Your bag of tricks is disorganized, and it is time to work some magic! Connect the magician’s tools in long chains to restore the order. Special pieces will enable you to create wonderful wizardry, combining different items in a single chain!

There are three levels of increasing difficulty, and you need to match all pieces in order to proceed to the next level. This means that it is very important not to leave a single symbol of a type, since you won’t be able to match it and complete the level.

You can take a path outside the playing field if doing so will connect two pieces. This means that two pieces that are located on the same outer line in the beginning can be matched.

Here’s a high scoring game of Abracadabra played by Wolfgang5352. Enjoy!

From: http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=6660

While all eyes in the gaming community focus on next week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), game lovers are amped for another reason: the winner of GSN and WorldWinner’s 2009 W3Games Solitaire Rush Tournament was announced. An early favorite to take the World Champion title, Boersma5 (aka Amy from East Lansing, Michigan), won it all due to her expert skill level and immense support from the WorldWinner player community. She did not disappoint, winning $30,000, the largest slice of the tournament’s $100,000 cash prize, and the growing respect of fellow WorldWinner competitors.

The 2009 W3Games kicked off a virtual spectator sport for the WorldWinner community. In the first tournament of the 2009 W3Games championship series, fellow players had the opportunity to watch the bracket pairings as the final rounds unfolded, participating in the competitive spirit and rooting for their favorite players even after their own elimination. A top scorer in Solitaire Rush, Amy took it upon herself to help her fellow cash gamers excel at the game she already knew best, by recording a video of herself playing so others could learn and, ultimately, succeed. As a result, she had a massive fan base as she closed in on the win.

“One of my favorite things about this first tournament was that everyone could enter, and a few unexpected players popped up and proved how their skills rivaled those of the finalists. You really never know when you’re going to surprise yourself and show that you are a champion,” said Amy. “I want to thank all of my WorldWinner friends for their support, and I encourage more people to enter the tournaments – you really can win big!”

After cruising through the qualifying round in second place, Amy went on to win all five “best of three” remaining bracket rounds. She thought she had it in the bag, but her final match was surprisingly close. Despite the heated competition, Amy took the first entry by one point and the second entry by 14 points, securing her position as the Solitaire Rush World Champion.

The 2009 W3Games are a year-long series of online game tournaments featuring four marquee titles – Solitaire Rush, Bejeweled 2, Wheel of Fortune and Big Money – each with a $100,000 prize pool. Powered by WorldWinner, a GSN-affiliated site and provider of online game competitions, the tournaments are designed to find the World’s best casual gamers.

With the excitement of the Solitaire Rush tournament still lingering, WorldWinner players are now practicing hard to vie for the crown in the next W3Games marquee tournament – Bejeweled 2, starting April 27.

What is Amy going to do with all the money? Well, she just bought a stick of lip balm today. SHE COULD BUY 30,000 STICKS OF LIP BALM IF SHE WANTED TO. If you have any questions for her, check out the forums and give her a holla! Feel free to give her a shoutout congrats as well!

The object of the game is to match the falling cards with the stock cards in the bottom as quickly as possible. If you are quick enough, you will be able to play several courses in a single game.

Four separate cards will always fall from above, and you match them by finding a card that is one value higher or lower, regardless of suit. Kings can be matched with Aces and Queens, so every card has two possible other cards that it can be matched with. Drag the card to the flag and release (you don’t need to drag it all the way up to the actual card).

You need to create a chain of cards that holds at least as many cards as the number of the flag before you can submit the chain. A chain is submitted if you click it without grabbing a card. If you create a chain that holds twice the amount of cards indicated on the flag, it will be submitted automatically.

The cards will fall more slowly after you have started matching them, but if you let one of them fall all the way down, the game will be over.

Anyhow, there’s a Top Winner Jackpot tournament going on in King.com for Bejeweled 2 where a couple players scored EXTREMELY high. Check this out:

Now, the 2nd place score alone would be considered VERY VERY impressive — I don’t think anyone’s scored higher than 31,160 more than 5 times EVER.

But take a look at the first place score. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY CRAP. 61,336 is a BEASTLY SUPER AWESOME score. I’d pay to see that game in action.

I managed to take a placing in this tournament with a respectable score of 24,719…not too impressive considering the top two scores, but hey — I’m guaranteed some prize money so I’m not complaining. Here’s my score captured in its full glory:

I wish I had the game recorded for you guys to see — but basically, on level 4 there’s this HUGE pile of silver gems that rain down. They’ll all connect together, turn into power gems, and then create a giant explosion of awesomeness. If you haven’t played in the Bejeweled Top Winner Jackpot, YOU MUST DO SO NOW. USE ALL 5 ATTEMPTS AND ACHIEVE GREATNESS. THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS FOR SCORING POTENTIAL.

That’s all I’ve got to say about today’s results in the Top Winner Jackpot. Do any of you guys have videos, pictures, or even stories to tell about some awesome scores you’ve hit on either King or WorldWinner? If so, we want to hear it! Visit our forums and share the love.

Peace out, and may the skill be with you!