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Does anyone else play minesweeper? It's actually a really fun logic game once you know what you're doing, and there's a lot to be learned in terms of strategy and mouse control. Plus, there's a lot of the same personal record hunting that I know so many people enjoy in cubing.

If you're interested, there's a pretty decent community on minesweeper.info, and a lot of the active people are working together right now to make it even more welcoming for new people. For instance, you can now get on the rankings no matter what your times are, although you do need to play on one of their official versions (rules/links here). They also have an IRC chat (#minesweeper on NewNet) - click here to enter.


Personally, I'm something like 30th in the world, but then again I've been doing it for quite a while. I have a 45 second expert game up on youtube.
 
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I used to play a fair amount, but I think too much depends on the mouse quality. I use a touch pad on my laptop, which I don't think is quite good enough.
 
You're good.

I haven't played for almost 10 years.

Beginner : ≈ 2 s. (3 clics)
Intermediate : 28 s.
Expert : 117 s.
 
I used to play a lot many years ago.

PBs:
Beginner: 3
Intermediate: 36
Expert: 120

I also have a 3/5 average on beginner that is sub 10 :)

I've also crashed on les then 110 seconds at the end of the expert level several times (I think 105 is the best crash time). I hate when I have a 50/50 gamble left at the end.

A clear improvement in the game would be to program it so that one can always solve it from the first click. Thus it never is a mine where you click first, and never a 50/50 situations in the game.
 
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A clear improvement in the game would be to program it so that one can always solve it from the first click. Thus it never is a mine where you click first, and never a 50/50 situations in the game.
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Well, you already never hit a mine on the first click. There are some versions where you can always win from the beginning, using just logic, but I think most serious minesweeper players agree that this removes some of the randomness and strategy from the game, and actually ends up less interesting than the normal version. If you're still interested in a version of that type, though, you can look at Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, Minesweeper Live, or LuckySweeper.
 
When I'm tired of Sporcle-ing and Facebookery I typically turn to Minesweeper or Solitaire for some fun (I've been doing it a lot of late). I suck but its fun.
 
Hi,
Beg:1.07
Int:16.67
Exp:63.59
I'm #409 right now. Sometimes I write to minesweeper.info. Nowadays I don't play really much (and I also don't cube really much)
 
This thread makes me wanna buy a mouse and beat my old pbs xD
I think my times were like:
2
25
80

but I may be dead wrong since that was 4-5yrs ago
 
I used to play a bit back in uni while procratinating. My expert record was 120 which I like to think could be sub 2 mins since the timer starts at 1 (my beginner record was 1 with only the initial click). I have a screen shot some where of what could've been my record with 2 mines left to find in a 2x2 square in a corner with a 50% chance of success. I failed at luck that time which is what really put me off the game in the end. So often good times were ground to a halt when I had to play the odds (with my limited knowledge) and coming out failing.
 
Ah, good old Minesweeper! I played this a lot some 10 years ago. For some reason I still remember my best times:

Beginner: 2 (useless level)
Intermediate: 24
Expert: 104
 
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