Help me.
I can’t stop. It’s just there, on my phone, and I have to have my phone! Can’t throw it in the toilet. It’s an iPhone too, so I threw some cash down for that thing. Oh, what’s that? Just delete the app, you say? Well, I’ve tried that. And as my finger gets closer to that little ‘x’ something takes over me. I push the home button, launch Bejeweled, and play.
Before this it was Solitaire and before that it was Word Play Online. Little games that taunt me, that whisper to me: “Mary, you don’t have an hour to sit down and play World of Warcraft. But you have a minute. You have one little minute to play me right now. And you won’t waste time, because you’ll only play me once. Then you’ll put me down and pick up your Kindle and start reading that book you’ve been meaning to finish. You won’t keep playing me again and again until you’re a bloodshot-eyed insomniac mess. Promise.”
These games lie to me. And they’re actually one of the reasons I got a Kindle. I wanted to go all ebook, but was determined to read on my iPhone. But it was too easy to pick up the phone to read, and wind up playing some little game over and over and put off the reading. Now with my Kindle I at least have one more barrier – I have to PUT DOWN THE KINDLE AND PICK UP THE IPHONE. So much work, right? Well Bejeweled has broken that barrier. Bejeweled doesn’t even let me pick up Kindle in the first place. It doesn’t whisper to me – it cries out, yells, screams at me to play it.
This has only been going on for a week. I finally grabbed Bejeweled 2 for $2.99 after entering the codes for my Christmas iTunes gift cards. I only play Blitz. Blitz is the one-minute-see-how-high-you-can-score mode.
I’m going to tell you my score. Ready? Ok. Here 
goes. My highest score is…..
63,050.
I’m doing something wrong, right? Not high enough, right? I connected via Facebook so I could see my friends’ scores, and it looks like only one other friend plays. Her score is 378,850. How can I possibly achieve this??? What’s wrong with me? I’m so tempted to look up how to score high, but then I’d be meta-gaming a casual game, and I just can’t have that.
Well I bared my soul to you. My bejeweled soul. At least it’s not bedazzled. I have to go get some work done. *picks up iPhone…..*
Well, at least WoW doesn’t have a Bejeweled add-on.
Oh, wait… Oops.
http://www4.popcap.com/promos/wow/
Hehe, yeah, I’ve been avoiding that. My mom got it on her WoW computer over the holidays and really likes it.
I used to be soooo addicted to these sorts of games many many years ago, thanks to Pogo.com. I’ve been thinking about adding bejeweled to my itouch but haven’t – afraid I’d never get anything done! But it would be nice to have when I’m stuck waiting for someone and need something more entertaining than staring at a blank wall.
My fav game for the itouch/iphone is the card game called Spite (aka skip-bo). A friend introduced me to this games years ago and it’s hard to find someone who knows how to play it (or willing to play it).
I also have a jigsaw puzzle game on my itouch that allows me to use my own pics…though setting it to max (144 pieces) will make your eyes cross and your brain drool after a while. LOL
I know the feeling. I’ve forced myself to take a break but of course fill my time playing warcrack instead… I really should be playing my guitar more.
For me it’s cribbage. When I finally finish that last random dungeon of the night and roll bleary-eyed into bed, I easily lay there for another hour playing the cribbage app on my iPhone.
I can relate – I was totally addicted to Bejeweled on my iPhone until I bought the Civ Revolutions app for the iPhone. Being a Civ fan, that thing is even more addictive!
I love Civ! Haven’t played in a while, but I was addicted to Civ 2 in college. How’s the iPhone version? Perhaps I should try it…
It’s a lot of fun.
To me, it’s basically a simplified version of Civ IV, and it definitely has the addictive ‘just one more turn’ gameplay of the PC Civ games. All the traditional Civ elements are there and you can automate or take control of the minute details (like workers – they are always on automate for me on the iPhone).
I gotta say that WoW add-on is great. It is a life saver when fishing or there is raid down time. It turns off when there is a ready check, but I doubt your iPhone turns off when someone knocks on your door.
Heh, yeah. I got hooked on Bejeweled when it was one of the free games on my cell phone a number of years ago. Since then I’ve bought the game for ever cellphone since, including my iPhone. Then last fall an update added the Blitz version with Facebook integration. If I thought it was addictive before…oh my. I’m constantly frustrated by ppl in my friend’s list with 300K+. I’ll play repeatedly until I can at least get around 150, but averaging all the rounds I’m around 60k too. I even had one friend with 9million. He had to have cheated somehow. My ego needs this to be true.