Man 'beats' Bejeweled 2 after playing for 3 years

by Griffin McElroy on Apr 30th 2010 9:28AM

We admire all forms of dedication -- even the absolutely insane forms. A California steel contractor named Mike Leyde recently displayed one such type of persistence by playing a single round of his casual game of choice, Bejeweled 2, for 2,205 hours and 51 minutes over the course of three years. In that time, he collected 4,872,229 gems, earning the game's highest calculable score, 2,147,483,647, at which point the score display got really perplexed and went blank. (Check out a video of Mike's achievement after the jump.)

According to PopCap, Leyde is the first person to ever "beat" Bejeweled 2. That's one way of looking at it, we suppose. Another way of looking at it is to say that everyone else who's ever played Bejeweled 2 is a quitter. Yeah, that's right. Why don't you follow through with something for once in your life? Sheesh.

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So he spent almost 100 days of his life doing that? I don't think he's the winner here...

100 hours over the course of 3 years.

days I meant.

92 days over the course of 3 years.

It only works out to 2 hours a day, and assuming he was having fun whilst doing it, I don't really see the problem.
I'm sure the average person spends at least 2 hours a day watching TV they don't really care about.

@D Dogg

I bet many people posting here play games an average of 2 hours a day. This guy just spent all his time with one game.

People have played WoW for way longer than that. How is that any better?

Personally, i think it's awesome. He should get free games from PopCap for life.

To put it into perspective, there are quite a few Battlefield 2 players that have spent 5000 hours (+/- 300) over 3 years... And even that can pale in comparison to some WoW players.

No fun! No personal time! Work only!

The Glorious People's Republic of America

Funny to see the usual bashing on someone's use of their time related to videogames by gamers on a videogame website.

I say congratulations to him, from one gamer to another.

When you say it in terms of hours per day, it doesn't sound anywhere near as bad, in fact it makes me wonder about how many years of my life I spend on the internet every day.

@Maxwell Ash

I had the same thought. My first reaction to 92 days over 3 years was, "Damn, that's a lot!". But when you break it down to 2 hours per day I'm thinking, "Wow, i probably do that too". Not all on one game of course, I prefer to play a large variety... but 2hrs/day isn't probably too far from what I average.

On one of my WoW characters, who I'd only played for a few months, had 22 days played on him. Had I been using him for three years, I'd have easily eclipsed this guy, and I still was going to college, had a girlfriend, etc. Putting in this type of game time as a gamer is really not that hard.

Congratulations to him though, that's amazing. I'm glad his hard work paid off.

Kill screen coming up if anyone is interested...

I have over 330 days logged (This means sitting there clicking away cause the AFK timer was only 1 minute for like 7 of those years) into Runescape since It came out in January of 2001. I'm actually the 797th person to sign up for Runescape. Anyways, As long as he enjoyed what he was doing with his FREE TIME more power to him.

Also, my dad has logged over 700 hours into Fallout 3.

woah wait....it has an ending????

Yeah, but he still has to play through the NewGame+ to get the *good* ending.

And I thought MMO players had no life

WIN: you win.

WIN, +1 to you sir. That was an awesome reply.

And serious congrats to Mike!

That is pretty dope. Nice work, Crazy Guy.

dope? people still say that with a straight face there jerk face?

can you save mid game in bejeweled? just wondering how he went 3 years without ever losing power.

Yeah if you quit out it stores your progress.

Slippery Pete

Imagine if you lost power while playing that long though(it only saves upon quitting correct?)

Over the course of three years...that means only like 12% of his time in those three years was spent playing Bejeweled. Plenty of time to do other shit.

How many days of your life in the last 3 years have you been on the internet doing useless shit? I'm sure the percentage is much higher.

Hell, I'm being useless right now.

12% us actually a lot higher than it sounds. Especially when you factor in sleeping, eating, and bathing(?).

Bathing?

Why?

Really Traceur? Really?

stop...

this game actually has an ending?

Bejeweled kill screen coming up...

http://www.thegamergene.com/crunch/2008/11/donkey-kong-kill-screen-t-shirt.png

He wins...THIS T-SHIRT!

Sounds like Bejeweled 2 is the quitter.

"Beating" Bejeweled is not exactly something to be proud of, brag about or telling other people about.

Why be so negative? He accomplished something no one else has and enjoyed doing it. He at least deserves a kudos, not a snide remark for having done it.

And what, pray tell, have YOU done to brag about, Mr. Obnoxious?

Does this make him a hardcore casual gamer? Is that paradox going to cause a tear in time and space?

That score would be (2^31) -1 or the maximum value of 32-bit signed integer.

Probably one of the last times we will see something of that nature, as it will literally be impossible for people to reach the limit in such a game when 64-bit integers become standard. The max value is over 9 quintillion.

Unless they inflate the point value, of course.

He's lucky it wasn't coded with a 64 bit base.

I recall glancing at the top of the leaderboards for some of the pinball tables in Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection (PS3 version) and finding some scores that were beyond the 32-bit signed int limit. I was impressed that Farsight had the foresight (heh) to make the scores either unsigned ints or 64-bit. Certainly, it doesn't take anywhere near as long as Bejeweled 2 did here to break the limit on those specific tables, but it's still something that very, very few people in the world would be capable of.

However, now I'm not so sure if they were really beyond the limit. I have a vague memory that it was 2.16 billion that I saw, but it's very vague; and, I may have been thinking that the limit was 2.097 billion at the time (2 GB expressed in KB is what I normally see for this value). So, maybe not. I can't check now, as I can't log in to PSN.

I wonder, though . . . given that we can see Bejeweled 2 uses a signed int for the score, can you actually get negative points in the game? Might we see a world record -2 billion score? Oh, the anticipation!

Point inflation? I'm not for it. Muramasa had combo hit inflation and while that will probably be the only time I get a 999 hit combo it just didn't feel as sweet as it could of.

Yeah... increase the point... intijer and stuff... ha. That would be.... crazy?

@killdash9

We wouldn't necessarily see a -2 billion score. Sure, when you look at it from a pure binary, it makes sense, but, from my experience, usually when you have an integer overflow, weird shit just starts happening, depending on the language used.

Like the entire score going blank or whatever happened here.

Actually, I didn't mean an overflow. Rather, could you rack up a lot of negative point values in the game and end up with a score that started at 0 and never went positive at all? Sure, most games out there don't deduct points, but hey, if you're going to use a signed integer to hold the score, you could feel compelled to make use of the typically neglected half of the representable values. :)

wow.....and I thought the people that put WEEKS into CoD games were crazy

Putting 2 hours a day into a hoby is "crazy" ? You post replies on this blog for close to 2 hours a day...who is crazier?

I'm sure he did it for more than just 2 hours a day sometimes....not to mention that I most times comment on here while I am respawning, shitting, or on the treadmill.....

Did NOT need to know all that Chris :/

New hope for those lost in a sea of endless masturbation. If Bejeweled can be beaten, surely one can reach the climax of...

Alright, nevermind..

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