Folks... this is getting ugly.

I bought the full versions of Bejeweled 2 and Zuma several months ago here on the office computer. Of course, in May, Jon and Ryan moved into the condo here (where the office is located). Everyone has access to the office comp, though, and they've both played a little bit of Bejeweled now and again.

Ryan spent a bit of time during the summer playing Bejeweled while Jon was away at camp. Jon recently returned home, and last week he set about beating Ryan's high scores in Classic and Action mode. (In Classic, you just make sets of 3 until you run out of possible moves. In Action, the timer bar counts down and you must make matches to replenish it. The points are tenfold in Action mode.)

Jon was able to take the top spot in Action mode, but Ryan had posted two seemingly insurmountable scores in Classic, and Jon could only go so high as 3rd.

Ryan had Wednesday off -- his first real day off in a while -- and he sat down and decided to re-establish his dominance at the game.

Here's your key to the players. Anything listed as "tfg46" and "Big Daddy P" are Ryan. Jon is "Jonny." The "tfg46" scores are from Ryan's summertime playing -- he didn't know you could log in under different profiles and just used mine. I never played Action or Classic, though; I stuck to Puzzle and Endless (the latter of which being like "Classic" except that the computer guarantees you will never run out of moves. I'm currently on Level 72 or some such nonsense), and thus I can guarantee that those tfg46 scores are definitely Ryan's.

I was enjoying lunch Wednesday afternoon when Ryan shouted, "BIGGIE! C'mere quick, and bring your camera phone!" Ryan had squeaked by Jon's best Classic score, putting him in all of the top 3 spots.

About 15 minutes later, I walked into the office for something or another, and I saw Ryan was pounding away at an Action game. I stuck around, calling out possible moves when he was up against the time limit, and took another picture for him at the end. He had gone past Jon's top score in Action mode by some 52,000 points.

I sent both of these pictures to Jon on his phone. He was running errands with his brother, and they sent back this picture of Jeff forwarding Jon's opinion:

Later that evening, Jon sat down and obliterated Ryan's high score on Action, nearly doubling it. I came home tonight to post these pictures, and I see that Jon was making a concerted attempt today to knock off that 39K high score in Classic, too... but he fell short. Jon was able to beat Ryan's 3rd score (the recent one) twice, but he could not get within 17,000 of the top Classic score.

So, here are the standings right now. Again, Ryan is "tfg46" and "Big Daddy P," while Jon is "Jonny." Side note-- I'ma take a swing at this. I'll create a new profile as "xlvi46." Check back here for updates as they develop on the great Bejeweled 2 Showdown of Ought-Six.

--CG