[B]If ever you thought you were pretty good at [I]Bejeweled 2[/I], then this news may put you in your place. A Riverside, CA, man has actually beaten the game and in so doing racked up more than 2 billion points.[/B]

Yes, 2 billion.

According to [URL=http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/california-man-beats-bejeweled-2/1397832]a story on Yahoo Games[/URL], Mike Leyde hit the games maximum score of 2,147,482,575 after more than 2200 hours of play. Why such an odd number as the maximum score? Apparently, the game cannot process any more points after that number.

[INDENT]"While developing Bejeweled 2, we debated endlessly whether it was even possible to best the 2.147 billion 'maximum' score," said Popcap co-founder John Vechey. "We deemed it impossible...and thus kept the cap at 2,147,482,575 knowing we were safe."

Safe, that is, until Leyde came along. His winning score saw him collect over 4.8 million gems and reach the game's 439th level, though his three-year commitment is apparently par for the course for the skilled gamer.

"If you're going to invest time in something, you might as well be as good at it as you possibly can," Leyde said. "I really enjoy the thrill of victory – like when I won my first stock car race or when I bowled a perfect 300 game."[/INDENT] Even though the score was recorded in march 2009, PopCap needed to validate it and decided to announce it to coincide with the 10th anniversary of [I]Bejeweled[/I].

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