# Have you played this game? Have you beat it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657 "2005-11-11T23:52:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/1 "2005-11-11T23:52:11Z")
I stumbled upon [this game](http://www.gamehouse.com/onlinegames/playgame.jsp?navnum=1&AID=&game=bkreef&code=BigKahunaR). It’s simple, so why can’t I beat the last screen? ack!
Someone please play it beat it, and I’ll just live vicariously through you.
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### Author:  [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/2 "2005-11-12T03:48:14Z")
Level 6. It may kill me. Will be back in six or seven hours. Maybe years.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/3 "2005-11-12T04:06:59Z")
Ah, It kicks my butt.
My wife completed it. She is great at these games and I bought her a subscription to GameBlast for her birthday.
Did you have a question for her, I could relay it in the morning. She only lurks.
Jim
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/4 "2005-11-12T04:17:52Z")
This is FUN. I’ll be at it all night.
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/5 "2005-11-12T04:36:50Z")
Thank you **so** very much for showing me another way to waste my time on the computer. My cats send their very sincere thanks, since when I’m on the computer I’m a captive lap. 🙂
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### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/6 "2005-11-12T05:10:53Z")
I came within one square of finishing level 6. Argh.
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### Author:  [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/7 "2005-11-12T06:11:13Z")
I got within two squares and that was only once. I figured out how to use the “net” and help line things up to clear the bottom “legs” and that helped me get further, but that was as close as I could get. Well, at least for tonight.
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### Author:  [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/8 "2005-11-12T06:12:22Z")
2 squares of level 6, that is. Didn’t want to imply I had gotten even remotely close to finishing the actual game.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/9 "2005-11-12T07:32:34Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#):
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> Ah, It kicks my butt.
> My wife completed it. She is great at these games and I bought her a subscription to GameBlast for her birthday.
>
> Did you have a question for her, I could relay it in the morning. She only lurks.
>
> Jim
Tell her she has my total respect and admiration! My husband found out I was asking for help, so now I can’t ask for help.
☹
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/10 "2005-11-12T07:33:13Z")
That is an evil, evil game, and I may never forgive you for this, **picunurse**.
I’ve downloaded it. I fear I may buy it. Og help me!!!
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/11 "2005-11-12T08:06:20Z")
I was at level 19 before the free trial ended. I’ve played lots of this type over at Shockwave in their [Action Puzzles](http://www.shockwave.com/) section. The trick is to recognize the hardest squares and then don’t screw yourself by using the pieces you need to get those spots in a random match.
Someday I need to subscribe so I can actually finish these things.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/12 "2005-11-12T16:25:59Z")
> [@picunurse](#):
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> Have you played this game?
I have now, you … you … !!!
> [@](#):
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> Have you beat it?
That’s a rather personal question!
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/13 "2005-11-12T18:38:16Z")
I still can’t beat level 6. :mad: As a lark, though, I skipped ahead levels and found that I could, barely, beat level 10.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/14 "2005-11-12T19:42:45Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> I have now, you … you … !!!
> That’s a rather personal question!
I didn’t say “lately” 😉
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/15 "2005-11-12T19:52:02Z")
**picunurse** , I may have to kill you, now.
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/16 "2005-11-12T21:08:12Z")
Great game. It looks like a variation on Bejewelled.
I’ll have to try it some other time though, 'cause those pesky customers keep coming in and interrupting me! Don’t they know I have more important things to do?
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/17 "2005-11-12T21:23:52Z")
Cute little game. I can’t tell what level I’m on, but the one I haven’t gotten through yet is the one where they tell you not to combine those shrimp looking blocks, or they’ll make new blocks.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/18 "2005-11-13T01:05:44Z")
> [@levdrakon](#):
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> Cute little game. I can’t tell what level I’m on, but the one I haven’t gotten through yet is the one where they tell you not to combine those shrimp looking blocks, or they’ll make new blocks.
That’d be level 6. I don’t mind the dead fish so much as the little nubs sticking out at the bottom which are danged near impossible (for me) to clear.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/19 "2005-11-13T05:10:17Z")
I GOT THROUGH LEVEL 6!! Life is sweet, today. 🆒
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### Author:  [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-played-this-game-have-you-beat-it/330657/20 "2005-11-13T05:21:28Z")
Level 6 is really rough. Egads I despise those little fish bones.
Took me a few times, but I finally got past it. The trick, I think, is to worry about the little columns at the bottom first and then clean up the edges before getting to the middle part.
Had to skip level 8, as it keeps freezing up on me about midway through. Anyone else get that? Didn’t have the problem with any of the other levels, and after skipping 8 got through the rest of the trial pretty handily.
Very addictive game. Glad it was only a trial or I’d still be in there procrastinating.
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