How to play Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower is a bubble shooter wrapped around a spinning tower. Jewels hang from the crown at the top; you fire new ones up from below and match colours to bring the whole tower down.
Clear every jewel to finish the level before the stack creeps past the red line.
Rules
- Connect 3 or more jewels of the same colour to pop them. Any jewels left hanging without a link to the crown fall off too.
- A shot that pops nothing uses up one of your misses. When they run out, a new row pushes in at the crown and the stack moves down.
- If the stack reaches the red line, the tower falls and the game is over.
- Later levels bring more colours, more starting rows and fewer misses before a new row drops.
- Each popped jewel is worth 10 points. Dropping jewels scores much more, and the multiplier grows for every 6 that fall at once. Clearing the tower adds 1,000 × level.
Controls
- ← → / A D
- Spin the tower
- Space / ↑ / W
- Shoot straight up
- ↓ / S / X
- Swap current and next jewel
- Mouse
- Aim with the pointer, click to shoot, drag or scroll to spin, right-click to swap
- Touch
- Drag to spin, tap the tower to shoot, tap the shooter to swap
- P / Esc
- Pause
Tips
- Aim for the jewels holding up big clusters — dropping a whole branch beats popping three at a time.
- Use swap to save a colour for the spot where it will drop the most.
- Keep an eye on the miss pips and make a sure match before a new row lands.
About Jewel Tower
Jewel Tower is an original bubble shooter made for this site. The genre began with Taito’s Puzzle Bobble (Bust-a-Move) in 1994, which put two Bubble Bobble dragons under a ceiling of coloured bubbles and asked you to fire matching ones up at it — three of a kind pop, and anything left hanging falls. It has been cloned, re-skinned and installed on office PCs ever since.
Our twist is the tower: the jewels hang from a crown on a cylinder you spin, so aiming is as much about rotation as angle. Each of the six jewel colours carries its own engraved glyph, so it plays fine without telling colours apart.
Questions
What is Jewel Tower based on?
It is an original bubble shooter inspired by the genre Puzzle Bobble started in 1994, built around a spinning tower instead of a flat ceiling. Free in your browser, nothing to download.
How do I play Jewel Tower on a phone?
Drag to spin the tower, tap the tower to shoot and tap the shooter to swap the current and next jewel. On a desktop, aim with the mouse or spin with the arrow keys.
How is the score calculated?
Each jewel you pop is worth 10 points. Jewels that fall because nothing holds them up score far more, with a multiplier that grows for every 6 that drop at once. Clearing the tower adds 1,000 × the level.
What happens when I miss?
A shot that pops nothing uses up one of your misses. When they run out, a new row pushes in at the crown and the stack moves down; if it reaches the red line, the game is over.