Talk:Gem Match/@comment-72.15.88.90-20141223131035/@comment-24668482-20141223234217

The fish skeleton can also be won in Bungalow. Bloody Mary's Mansion can also be won in Pipes and Mayan Temple. The Galley can also be won in Bunglaow. The Piano can also be won in Crashed Plane.

You should have access to all of these localities by now, except maybe for Bungalow since it unlocksat level 22 and I remember how time consuming it was to collect enough coins to open the pictures at the beginning of the game. Winning the items from these pictures will still complete the quest for you even though the quest asks for Gem Match.

You can also put the items on your wishlist by opening the collections tab and pressing the green plus sign next to each item. If your friends gift you the items it will also complete the quest for you when you accept the gift and return to your home desktop (so when you see the graphic of it going into your inventory). If you post your friend code here I will give you the 4 items if you are stuck and just want to get those quests out of the way.

As for playing Gem Match, there isn't much I can add to what is already in the article above, other than remind that the goal is toake matches over squares with the yellow borders to remove all those borders from the playing board. The amount of time you have for each puzzle will increase as you increase the level of your Gem Match (though so does the difficulty of the puzzles).

To buy time machines (adds 45seconds to the timer), go to the shop, select the tools tab (4th tab) and scroll to the right, you will see 3 time machine options: buy 1 for 12,500 coins; but 5 for 50,000 coons; and buy 10 for 90,000 coins. Because you are still opening new pictures you might have a shortage of coins right now, the quickest way to earn coins is by combining collections, so look in the collections tab for any collections you can combine again if you have already completed the quests and combine them for the extra awards. Some collections (e.g. Honorary medals) also will reward the time machines you need (honorary medals will give you 2 time machines and 4,500 coins so nearly enough to buy a third).

You could also practice Gem Match by playing a similar game that doesn't have the same sort of time contraints. The closest game to gem match you can get in the iOS App Store is Cradle if Rome or Cradle of Rome 2. These are also piblished by G5e, and as far as I can tell are using the same engine as Gem Match but are much more laid back in terms of time. But games like bejeweled/bejeweled blitz are also very similar.