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Do you have what it takes to venture into the unknown? Set course to the great depths of the earth on your next amazing quest. Journey to the newly available Abyssal Keep in Jewel Mania!
update for the week. and i'm just one island away from it! but looking at this picture, looks like mostly fire levels.
Level 223... fire moves level with crates and gifts
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uh oh now i forgot exactly what is inside the gifts because a few levels on this island have gifts featured. I think one gift is a fire extinguisher (one time use) and the other gift is a shuffle (one time use). just focus on breaking through the crates and making lots of bombs and blasters. i'd reserve the extinguisher for use once you are down to only a few left. i can't remember exactly how many flames it will put out but it's not a lot.
Level 224... timed fire level with snakes, crates, and gifts
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i had to do this level more than a few times to pass it. things you should focus on... ****ing all the snakes, breaking the crates, and getting the presents. the gifts i think have the same boost inside, one extinguisher and one reshuffle. honestly, the reshuffle is pretty worthless to me but maybe it will help someone? the extinguisher is pretty handy, and i would again reserve it for use once you're down to a few flames. (5-6 flames at most?) each time i played the round, the color of the snake eyes didn't seem to change. so it's gonna be red, green, red, green in each round. if you get rid of the middle snake heads, the fire will begin to spread because you open up a pathway for it. there's not a lot of time in this level, so try to focus on breaking the crates and ****ing the snakes. and you pretty much have to **** the snakes to get to the fire, unless you can make consecutive vertical blasters in the columns with the fire. i typically ****ed the snakes on top by making a match around its head. and to **** the middle snakes, i mostly used vertical blasters, but sometimes i used a horizontal blaster or got really lucky and made a match near the head. if you manage to get rid of one entire snake body that will open the board up and you can probably more easily get rid of the other snakes.
Level 225... fire moves level with crates and stone jewels
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the stone jewels add a twist to this level since you're trying to break the crates. often times you won't really have much of a choice of where to make a match, but just focus on any area that you can break crates. this will help open up the board so you can make special jewels and also start to get rid of the fire in the middle. just try to contain the fire if possible. any fire round, bomb + blaster combo is the best, so is diamond + blaster. i think i got lucky and passed this one w/in a few tries. but it can get tricky for sure.
Level 226... fire moves level with crates, stone jewels, and gifts
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ok i think in this round, both gifts are extinguishers. i remember there was one level in this island that had 2 extinguisher gifts. so i am pretty sure it's this one... i passed on the 2nd or 3rd try. this one was my first try and i remember making 2 vertical blasters, the red and the yellow one. the fire won't burn through the stone jewels unfortunately. so i think i focused on getting rid of all the fire in the middle (after breaking through lots of crates) and the ones that are not contained by the stone jewels. then i made a couple blasters and got rid of the ones on the sides that are stuck below the stone jewels. or maybe i used the extinguisher to get rid of them. my memory is so bad on this island :|
Level 227... timed fire level with snakes, crates, and gifts
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time moves really fast on this level and just make any move that you can since the fire spreads quickly!! i try to target the snakes, crates, or gifts. obviously the fire too. there is one extinguisher and one reshuffle. i just used the extinguisher and it put out one flame only :mad: gonna keep trying now! :)
Wow, Aileeniweeni...you're really tearing thru this island!!! ;)
Level 228... digging moves level with snakes and super dirt
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the black jewels on the sides aren't much of a bother. you have to **** the snakes to move down. the top 2 snake heads aren't very hard to ****. the bottom 2 snake heads can be a bit tricky because of that gap on top of it. you can make blasters to **** the heads. i had very few moves left by the time i got to the bottom area. right at the goal line there are 2 pieces of super dirt which must be blasted or bombed through. i was able to blast one piece with a vertical column. i also had maybe one or two other vertical blasters but they were to the sides. BUT i was able to make a match on the regular dirt directly underneath the last piece of super dirt at the goal line (with my last move left) and the super dirt fell down and i cleared the goal line!! yay!!
bye bye Abyssal Keep!!!
you're going really fast too!!! almost to unicorn summit, right? :) i really like the background music on that island. gonna write up a post for the newest island... wheee! (hint: new feature!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Phaedrakiki
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Originally Posted by OpeningCeremony
Now I'm stuck on this level, lol.
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The gifts are extinguisher. I'm confused, sometime it extinguish only 1 fire sometime several of them, I still don't know how this extinguisher works. So far, I never use them because I didn't get a chance or probably I always forget that I got gifts lol.
Check out the changes to Level 223! It was 18 fire in 30 moves, and now it's 12 in 35 (thrilled about that!) 5JC (5 jewel colors used.) I copied Aileeniweeni/OpeningCeremony's photo above so we could see them side-by-side (hope that's OK?)
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The level as it is now (on my device, anyway) is on the right. In addition to the extra fire, there used to be extra crates on the bottom and a larger window at the top. The level now has 2 little windows in the 3rd row from the bottom (where the 6 fire are in the 1st pic.) They made a lot of modifications--a good thing! So glad they scaled it back a bit, cuz the one time I played I didn't even get close! Awaiting energy to tackle again~
wow to the untrained jewel mania eye, those pics look pretty identical! good catch! glad to hear of your speedy progress!! :D (and of course it's all right! repost those pics anytime)Quote:
Originally Posted by Phaedrakiki
Btw, they've added 5 more moves to 223 (yay--I need 'em!) Both gifts on this level are reshuffles now. Maybe when they made the changes (making it a little easier,) they also took away the fire extinguisher mentioned earlier(?) I keep forgetting to use the gifts. I was thinking, a reshuffle might come in handy to put a blaster/bomb in a better spot (esp. if you had a diamond to remotely set it off!) Awaiting energy to keep working on it--this level's pretty hard! :p
Yep, that reshuffle actually helped! I passed 223--I had several blasters and a bomb, but not in great positions. Finally remembered the reshuffle boost, and used it. It placed the bomb at the bottom. I made a regular blaster match after that, and it dropped another blaster right next to my bomb! Swapped 'em, and then only had a couple flames left to fight. Tah-dah! Had lots of moves left, too...a definite lucky board!
Level 224: 16 fire in 1:30 (5JC.) Followed the same strategy Aileenie/OpeningCeremony outlined earlier, and it worked great! Took a few tries, but I was able to **** the snakes and crash thru the crates early in the round with a blaster + bomb (B&B.) Then I detonated another B&B later towards the bottom, which took out all but a couple flames on the left. Then extinguished those with another blaster & a final regular match. Yay!
Found some more changes/modifications, this time in Level 225! The level on my device (photo on right) is set up as 12 fire in 35 moves. Pic on right (from Aileeni's post earlier in this thread) shows 14 fire in 30 moves. 5JC--jewel colors used in both. The crates have been modified, stone jewels were reduced by 2, and a window was added at the bottom (where 2 fire had been.) Many of these things make it easier, (yay!) while some add difficulty.
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I think it's great they're continuously monitoring these levels to make sure they're challenging enough, but not crazily so. Sometimes I'll think a level's too tough, but they usually fix these "difficult ones" for us. I'm just so happy they keep adding new islands to this game we love! :D
Anyway, I tried this level a few times, and it's really tricky so far! During one round, there was only one gap in the crates for the fire to escape. A stone jewel was in it's path--the only jewel the fire could consume. Gotta admit, it was fun watching the fire "eat" one of those pesky things, lol! ;) Awaiting energy to tackle again...
Passed 225--yay! Took many tries, but eventually was able to do 2 blaster + bomb combos, one early in the round to help knock out crates, and one the second row from bottom, which knocked out all the fire. Whoo-hoo (was so happy!) :p You definitely have to get thru the crates quickly in this one...to fight fire and to make room to create all the special jewels you need! (This may sound very familiar, lol!)
There are some changes/mods to Level 226, as well. The stat's are the same: 14 fire in 35 moves (5JC.) But they changed the crates a bit, took out 2 stone jewels, and really changed-up the cutouts on the sides, etc. The new board's got more room, thank goodness! Here's how they look, side-by-side...Aileeniweenie/OpeningCeremony's (from earlier in this thread) on the left, & mine on the right:
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Took me a few tries at this, but I passed with a diamond + blaster (and other specials/smaller combos.) In an earlier round, I got within 2 fire, but ran out of moves. I forgot all about the fire extinguisher boosts...Oops! I'm not sure how many fire the boost takes out, cuz I ended up not needing it when I passed. Had a match right next to my last flame (and a diamond--feast or famine, lol!)
Wow, Level 227 has had some changes, too. On my device, the stat's are currently 12 fire in 1:35 (5JC.) They added some snakeheads, removed 2 crates, and changed the cutouts--which increased the board's "real-estate" by 4 squares. Here's the side-by-side comparison for anyone curious...mine is on the right (Aileeniweeni/OpeningCeremony's on the left--from earlier in this thread.)
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The fire moves incredibly fast on this one. If you don't get a handle on it quickly, it's nearly impossible to recover. On my last attempt, I was swiping so quickly I messed up a move that could've cleared a snake. I never could **** that darn thing after that! Ugh, I lose my head on these timed ones! Gotta remember to move fast, but also smart--so hard! :p What's needed here is a lucky board, with a good combo early in the round. That way there's time to tackle the fire below. If I ever make it that far, I'll be too delirious to remember I have boosts to use! Hmph, as for the reshuffle boost, my screen was already doing a lot of that (cuz the fire had taken over most of the board, lol~ ;)) Haven't gotten close to passing this at all so far. Recharging, so I can keep on tryin'!
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Prob just as well that I'm stuck on 227...have time to BBQ, lol! But this level is like a sick joke--I can't even **** the snakes, much less get the fire cleared. It's all I can do to keep the entire screen from becoming a wildfire (which it almost does each time!) I actually got all the snakes once, but time ran out right after. It just takes so long to beat back the flames & have a workable screen. Not sure what I can do to make it better, though. This level is so hard (at least for me!)
Hope you all have an explosive 4th of July! ;)
Passed 227! Had a diamond + blaster & blaster + bomb. Chose the diamond + blaster, thinking it would give me a better shot. Then while the blasters were still detonating, I checked to see where the bomb had landed, and it was next to a different blaster. So I went ahead and swapped the two while other blasters still going off (never tried that before!) The blaster + bomb knocked-out most of the remaining flames. And there were still a couple blasters detonating afterwards from the first combo! They got the very last fire, too. Whoo-hoo! Level complete and 3 stars! So excited--didn't think I'd be able to pass this one for awhile--seemed so impossible. The fire was WAY too fast for me! But getting super lucky like that...nice!!! :D
Level 228: Dig 10 meters in 65 moves (5JC.) This is pretty straightforward, just make lots of special jewels/do combos to get thru the super dirt & **** snakes. I actually passed this last night on my 1st try, so can't remember the exact combos I used. But I know it was quite fun! They added 20 moves to this level (was "45" in earlier post's photo.) But I had lots of moves left to dig beyond the goal line. I'll def go back to get 3 stars, cuz it was so enjoyable. Thanks TL...loved the whole island (save 227, lol!)
And with that, I'm off to Tentacle Tunnel...~~
Great job Phaedrakiki! Stuck on 227 too... Timed fire levels are my nemesis!
The last few islands have been enjoyable, but all these fire levels... Grr!
Looking forward to getting a lovely combo in a great position to wipe out most of the board - it's interesting to see the changes that have been made to the boards on this island - thanks to all for posting the pics that make it possible to track the changes.
Hey, good to see your post, pastasplace! :D Sorry to hear you're stuck on 227. Those timed fire levels are definitely stressful & difficult. I have trouble with most timed levels anyway. Add fire, and it's pressure overload! Hope you do get that perfect combo you want--and soon! ;)
It was fun posting our photos side-by-side (espec. cuz I miss posting level pics, lol!) When I saw the changes were more than just time/moves, I thought some show-and-tell might be in order. I was a little worried I got over-enthusiastic, though...so I'm glad to read your post! :) Good luck!
I am so frustrated with this game! It keeps locking levels I've unlocked. I FINALLY beat 227 (somehow in less than 30 seconds thanks to a lucky board). I went on to play 228 with my last energy and came within one move of beating it. Now it's showing that I didn't beat 227 and 228 is locked again. This has been happening to me for months now and always seems to happen after the levels that give me the most trouble. I never wanted to play 227 again and now I'll be forced to waste who knows how much energy in order to beat it again. Ugh.
Help I'm totally stuck! I need one more star to pass abyssal keep and have been here for months. Levels 223 - 228 I have 2 stars, 2 stars, 2 stars, 3 stars, 2 stars & 2 stars. Just can't seem to get 3 stars on any other level. Any ideas?
Just go back and play some earlier levels (any level you scored 1 or 2 stars on) to get more. To get to Tentacle Tunnel (or any island,) you need a total average of 2 stars per level. So, that means 2 x 228--or 456 stars total--to get to level 229.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmpet3891
If you have that many stars and the game won't let you continue, make sure your game & device updates are current (JM's at 1.1.9.) Also, here's more advice (from a dev) for a similar issue at this thread.
Good luck! ;)
Thanks so much phaedrakiki!! Can't wait to get some more energy! :)
After being stuck on 223, I finally managed to pass it, then got through 224, 225, and 226 relatively quickly. But 227 is a real challenge. It would be a challenge even without those doom jewels. I've spent many energies on it, a lot with gold that I paid for. Time, I think, to drop it for a while and go back to lower levels, and build up my star collection. Hopefully by the time I get back to it TL will have tweaked it so it's more realistic. It's supposed to be fun!