This is the first in a four-week series of game diaries about Bejeweled Twist. Not only will this increase traffic among casual gamers (hey, casual gamers, all forty million of you: come to Fidgit!), but it will give me an excuse to keep playing the game.

After the jump, read part one of our twenty-part Bejeweled Twist game diaries.

I'm a Senior Spinner with about thirty stars to go before I ding up.

I'm on the fourteenth level and I've just passed a half a million points, thanks mostly to the fruit bonus that got me through the thirteenth level. This could end up being my highest score ever. I'm in a terrible jam with a doom gem and a locked gem closing off my lighting blue gem in the corner. There's no way I'm going to be able to get to it. The bar is only about half full in terms of getting to the next level, and I've already disarmed two bomb gems, which means I can't afford to let any more count down. And I've got an orange bomb gem with six turns to go in a sea of blue. It doesn't look good. After staring at the screen for what seems like dozens of seconds, the only move suggested by the game is a paltry arrangement of three reds along the top row.

Come back tomorrow to find out whether I manage to get out of this jam!