Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35967506-20180702191851

Start by concentrating on removing the most difficult ones to match up, like a standalone row at the top or sides. If you see good matches in a "2nd hardest to match" area like locks, do that, but keep a constant eye on the standalone rows or columns (or other really hard ones) and match those as soon as you see them.

As for making row-zapping jewels by matching 4 at once, I leave those. I do not worry about how many or where the row/column zappers are because they will match themselves. Occasionally I will make one and try and position it over a hard-to remove gem, but often the game runs out of matches on the board and resets itself, MOVING the row zapper that I had carefully been setting up to zap a particular gem.

The best ones are if you can combine a bomb with a row zapper, it removes 3 rows in Horizontal and Vertical directions. However, I find bombs disruptive in general, because they take a second or two to detonate, forcing me to wait in some ways until they are done. So I avoid making bombs unless I have a few row zappers that might line up to clear out 3-rows H&V.

The best is if you can line up 5 in a row for amulit-gem and move teh multi-gem into a row zapper. Then all gem sof that color do a row zap.

DO NOT try to touch a multi-gem to a bomb. It does not make bombs out of whatever bomb color you corssed it iwth; it selects a random nearby gem and zaps all of those, NOT the bomb. This is a bug in the game, to select a random color rather than at least selecting the same color as the bomb.

So....avoid making bombs for the most part.

If you can cross a multi-gem with a multi-gem, you will zap every gem in the entire puzzle. Whatever you do, just keep matching, do not stop. If you keep it moving, the chances are better that you will get the puzzle done. Generally I start matching at the top corners or other hard-to-match places as those are difficult to match and need more action. I ignore the middle completely as it takes care of itself. At the end, after all difficult spots are done, I will match the middle pieces if any are left.  