Jewels II: The Ultimate Challenge

Posted by Bradford Roberts.
First posted on 25 May 1998. Last updated on 13 August 2009.
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It takes only a few moments of playing Jewels II: The Ultimate Challenge, Courtland Shakespeare's 1997 sequel to his 1995 Jewels of the Oracle, to realize that this game is not so much a sequel as it is a remake. The basic premise is identical. You wander from room to room, discover how to operate ancient machines, and collect a gem for each puzzle solved. Solve all 24 puzzles and you have the…

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Very Good

I CAN'T PLAY THIS GAME ON WIN XP Is there a DOWNLOAD OR ?/ SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE THIS POSSIBLE??

United States By Jeanne • On 26 December 2013 • From Bolivar MO USA

Excellent

Can't play it on window 7 and Jewells 1 HELP> Pauline

Australia By Pauline • On 19 May 2011 • From Perth Western Australia

jewels 2 is installing empty directories on my start menu program list its only installing the first disk it says it's complete but it's not I have xp also what can i do to make this game work the error message I get is script error not defined the files it's looking for is halogo, gems, open and vor

United States By charles goodwyne • On 23 January 2011 • From jacksonville

Very Good

I love both Jewels and Jewels 2. The only problem I'm now having is I cannot get Jewels 2 to install on Windows XP or Vista. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how to do it? Interestingly enough, Jewels installs without any problems on XP (sadly though, not on Vista) which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me given that it is an older game!

Thanks in advance for any help!

United States By Cathy • On 16 July 2008 • From Nashville, USA

Excellent

I played Jewels 2 several years ago on a computer with Windows 98. I replayed it a couple of years ago on an iMac booted to OS9. It's unfortunate that the game doesn't seem to work on Windows 2000 or XP -- at least not without using an emulator, like VirtualPC.

United States By JW • On 26 June 2008 • From USA

Very Good

please send me details how to install it in winxp

Great Britain (UK) By robin rock • On 14 February 2008 • From sydney

How do you get this game to run on Windows XP????

Canada By Alicia • On 05 August 2007 • From Canada

does anyone out there have or know of a patch that enables one to play the 95 gems of darkness on xp
please as i have tried to and failed to run this game in the windows xp 95\98 compatiblity mode
many thanks

Australia By lawrence • On 23 June 2007 • From Australia

Will jewels 2 play on XP, please

France By genevi • On 04 December 2006 • From France

Excellent

I PLAY IT FOR HOURS BUTI JUST LOVE

United States By GEORGE WHEELER • On 21 August 2006 • From BALTIMORE MARYLAND
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