Minesweeper

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...

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

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.. :rolleyes:

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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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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

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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I wrote this:

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

minesweeper with arbitrary shapes.

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mazemaster said:
I wrote this:

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

minesweeper with arbitrary shapes.

</pimpage>

Tis borked Nick. :sad:

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

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... :smile:

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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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<span style="color: white;">Well, I managed to do 2 seconds on beginners with a'lil help of speedhacking.</span><br style="color: white;">

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

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

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