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…

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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! [...]

Shagwana is a top Bejeweled 2 player on WorldWinner.com and is arguably the most consistent in placing well in Daily specials for Bejeweled 2. He is also the writer of a gaming blog that covers skill games from time to time. Below is some advice he wrote on the forums for players looking to improve their gameplay in Bejeweled 2:

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!