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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat Dec 24th at 6:25am 2005

I was trying to avoid a paper and as desperate as I was I opened up Minesweeper to distract me. Now I'm curious how many Pitters play Minesweeper. I'm willing to bet most of us are Solitaire guys... or perhaps even Freecell people, but there have to be at least a few people who enjoy a good game of Minesweeper.

So how many of you play, and what are your best times?

Here are mine:
Beginner: 7
Intermediate: 45
Expert: 141

I used to think my times were pretty good, until I looked 'Minesweeper' up on the wiki page and found out how wrong I was...

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On the Windows version, for Expert, a time under 85 seconds in Windows 2000 (and under 80 seconds in Windows 3.1) is considered to be very good. The official record for Intermediate is 10 seconds and 1 second for the 8X8 Beginner board. The official record for Expert is 39 seconds. (Note that the timer instantly goes to 1 on the first click, rather than after a second.) Many people publish screenshots or video recordings of their best performances. The Minesweeper Community has compiled a bestever-list which includes videos of the fastest games ever played. In order to get on that list your records on beginner, intermediate and expert must sum up to no more than 99 (sub100).





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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Dec 24th at 7:00am 2005





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Posted by Crapceeper on Sat Dec 24th at 7:48am 2005

I play minesweeper like twice a year or so. I can't tell about my best times; there are none recorded yet.
I play solitaire or spider solitaire as well; but Planarity is like my fav.


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Posted by Myrk- on Sat Dec 24th at 11:12am 2005

Under 99 for expert is not natural, thats pure fluke- you can't possible do it in under 100 unless its an amazing set whereby all the mines are on the outside edge!


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Posted by French Toast on Sat Dec 24th at 1:43pm 2005

I used to play. I got 5 seconds on Beginner and that was my greatest achievement.




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Posted by fishy on Sat Dec 24th at 2:41pm 2005

i've had two scores of under 100 on expert, both high 90's. that was a long, long time ago, at work, using win3.1

what actually showed in the high scores list was something silly, like 27, but that's because i found the little txt file that the scores were written to..




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Posted by satchmo on Sat Dec 24th at 4:56pm 2005

I played it like a total of three times. It's just not that interesting to me. I also can't relate to those who can play Solitaire all day. I don't think I played Solitaire more than ten rounds in my entire life.

I like to shoot things, and have others shoot at me. I can't get into these puzzle games. Playing Riven, for example, felt like having a root canal without anesthesia.



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Posted by ReNo on Sat Dec 24th at 7:02pm 2005

I don't tend to like the more trivial games like Minesweeper or Solitaire, but I do enjoy adventure games with puzzles, such as Monkey Island or Broken Sword. One puzzle game I adore that is probably more belonging to the trivial set is Lumines, which is so fiendishly addictive and challenging that I really do find it hard to put down. While not a game for all occasions, it is one of those games that comes together so perfectly, with account to its purpose and platform in particular (a puzzle game for a handheld console (PSP) - a la tetris) that its hard not to be impressed. While I would never listen to the music from the game on its own, it works so well with the gameplay that almost everybody would love it. Undoubtadly Lumines is one of the best games of the year for me, despite the fact I generally dislike puzzle games.




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Posted by mazemaster on Sat Dec 24th at 7:02pm 2005

<pimpage>

I wrote this:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~nalger/Bonussweeper.html

minesweeper with arbitrary shapes.

</pimpage>


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Posted by Underdog on Sat Dec 24th at 7:32pm 2005

? quoting mazemaster
<pimpage>

I wrote this:

http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~nalger/Bonussweeper.html

minesweeper with arbitrary shapes.

</pimpage>

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Posted by FatStrings on Sun Dec 25th at 5:39am 2005

yeah i play, never under 100 though that sounds pretty insane





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Posted by Captain P on Sun Dec 25th at 12:24pm 2005

I played minesweeper a bit a long time ago, but we used to play Pinball much more. I got 16 million and as far as I can remember, my brother never beat me to that... <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Foxpup on Mon Dec 26th at 1:28am 2005

I don't play Minesweeper I usually play Pinball. On Maxis "Space Cadet" I once got up to 12 million and on Digital Extremes "Rock Fanstasy" I can easily get over a billion points (but you can bangback on that table so that doesn't really count).


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Posted by ZombieLoffe on Mon Dec 26th at 1:44am 2005

Well, I managed to do 2 seconds on beginners with a'lil help of speedhacking.



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Posted by wil5on on Mon Dec 26th at 2:42am 2005

I cant imagine how it is possible to complete a game of minesweeper within one second. I dont play it often, but when I do, I dont play for speed.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 27th at 3:40am 2005

The 1 second beginner time is when the game randomly lays the mines so that when you click once, the game is won.




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Posted by FatStrings on Tue Dec 27th at 3:46am 2005

its rare enough for it to lay so that is possible though and even more rare for you to click in the right spot




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Dec 27th at 4:14am 2005

Yeah -- the wiki stats gave it something like... 0.00125% for a corner click.





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