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11/11/01 01:40:55 PM | |
Name: | Paul Self Critical |
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Comments: | Paul Kerry a nigh on no-flagging advocate Couldn't even get down to fifty-eight Not wanting to chord He blamed every board When in fact his technique was second rate Cheers :-D |
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11/11/01 11:01:27 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | OK, just posted my limericks in the minesweeper addicts e-group. Be afraid...be very afraid...there may come more ;-) |
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11/11/01 10:43:20 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 63 |
Best intermediate: | 12 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Sounds interesting enouhg to me Matt : maybe I might partake. I like writing poetry but this sounds a little silly... but I like silly things! ;) So I may as well give it a crack. Good luck all Owen |
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11/11/01 09:53:42 AM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Yeah Damien, I think we should have a minesweeper limerick contest. Ha ha ha- I cant believe Im even suggesting this! Anyway, people could email their limericks (or whatever that format is called) to me or post them at the addicts e-group. Then, using the poll at the e-group we could vote on a certain day. I wrote one, but its not too good, just me complaining about mice being too small with a couple rhyming words and a really awful ending ^_^ Does anyone want to do that? If so, post them at the addicts e-group instead of emailing them to me. What say we make the deadline for enrtries December 1st? I dont know what we'll do for prizes...maybe recognition or something. Ill put your name on the front page of my site; hows that for incentive? ;) Fine print: All entries from Micheal Kenyon will be discarded. |
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11/11/01 09:20:35 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | Do you mean some kind of Minesweeper World Championship, Quentin? Sounds cool to me. |
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11/11/01 08:49:43 AM | |
Name: | Quentin Archer |
Best expert: | 62 |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
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Comments: | Salut Damien! I send you my screenshots recently, as promised, but i post it there: thefinerminer@hotmail.com I will be really glad to be put on your site, so could you please do it for me? about 50000 visitors: Congratulation. Just one thing: Is there any Minesweeper contest??? I don't think so, but we never know. See you sone here on the web. Quentin Archer *<(;-þ)= |
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11/11/01 12:32:48 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | Fill in: "to remove" after the word "need" in the message below... |
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11/11/01 12:30:56 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | I think you need an ID again Damien :( |
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11/10/01 08:13:19 PM | |
Name: | Case |
Best expert: | 71 |
Best intermediate: | 19 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | slowly shaving off seconds... 71 on expert finally, after losing one on the last click at 71, and not finding the last blank square on a 72 sec win that would have been at 69 if i saw it sooner |
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11/10/01 09:28:45 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Got 64 yesterday but nothing good today |
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11/10/01 04:11:00 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | OK, let me give it a try: Manu Brunelliere from France, Has according to Ben the chance, To get the greatest scores known And kick Lasse off his throne, Because of his magic advance. An explanation of Matt's 10 is indeed, An important thing that all minesweepers need. Is it because he works so hard? Or is he mathematically very smart? No: it's because he sweeps with his feet. |
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11/10/01 03:11:55 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | By the way Paul, could you possibly recite your poem about me? I mean, can you pronounce my first name correctly since my last e-mail? ;-) |
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11/10/01 03:01:17 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | Thanks Paul for giving bad lay-outs as the reason :-) Wouldn't dare to say that myself... |
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11/09/01 08:19:41 PM | |
Name: | Paulcer (I'm English too!) |
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Comments: | Nothing much at all rhymes with Dan Cerveny Well, if things do, there surely aren't many But his great chording Means good times he's'a'hoarding Hopefully he'll manage a 40-something eventually At what point does this become spam? I'm rapidly realising I don't actually have facts to create variety for more of these. Actually, I think the previous one was already too much! |
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11/09/01 08:04:37 PM | |
Name: | Paul the Persispoet |
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Comments: | Click click bomb for Roelof Smit He can't improve his int by a single bit So he watched Matts avi's And he came to realise All his boards have layouts like s*** |
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11/09/01 03:00:02 PM | |
Name: | joe |
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Comments: | haha, those were tight paul. |
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11/09/01 02:38:28 PM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | Maybe we should start a minesweeper limerick contest ? :) Wish I had ancient's grammar skills. Anyways, David, do you still have that program you used to scan minesweeper games? Can you do us a favor for my curiousity: can you scan a custom board the same standard as intermediate? I want to know if it in fact uses the same set. (i have been playing custom standard grids so I don't beat the scores on other people's computers). |
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11/09/01 01:29:41 PM | |
Name: | Paul the poet |
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Comments: | *yadda* Maybe it is because he's bigger than most men That helped Matt McGinley score a ten Some think he got it scored Because of the dream board But I think it was more like Minesweeper zen *yadda* |
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11/09/01 01:28:58 PM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
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Comments: | Absolutely brilliant Paul :-) |
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11/09/01 01:22:00 PM | |
Name: | Paul 'the poet' Kerry |
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Comments: | *ahem* Lasse Nyholm chord-clicked As on and on the timer ticked To fourty-four Not a second more Surely he has expert licked And oh so many more ideas for Minesweeper poetry... but, well, I think no. |
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11/09/01 12:20:52 PM | |
Name: | Manu |
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Comments: | Funny to read a message from my sister on this forum... Just sad to see that she's not better in english than me :) (désolé Laure mais il y a une grosse faute quand même ;) Bisous quand même...) Don't worry everybody we won't make you read our "personnal messages" in french every day... Yesterday I got a 19 and lost an expert game around 50 that would have given me 65 or less :( Manu. |
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11/09/01 11:18:31 AM | |
Name: | The Ancient One |
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Comments: | In that dread desert, beneath moons' pale gaze, the dead men walk. They haunt the dunes in that breathless, windless night. They brandish their weapons in mocking challenge to all life, and sometimes in ghastly dry voices, like the rustling of sere leaves, they whisper one word they remember from life, the name of their ancient, dark master. They whisper the name... Nagash |
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11/09/01 05:43:11 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | Well done Dan, I've been waiting for you to go past me in Expert for a few months now. You're almost there. Now you only need to shave a mere 12% off your time before joining the world record holder... |
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11/09/01 04:08:37 AM | |
Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
Best expert: | 44 |
Best intermediate: | 13 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Well done, Dan - now.. sub 50 and give me a challenge :) Lanyje |
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11/08/01 11:21:07 AM | |
Name: | Roelof Smit |
Best expert: | 66 |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Great job Dan. Don't think Lasse will get any real challenge provisionally however. Site is nearing the 50.000 hits by the way. Awesome. |
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11/08/01 11:08:54 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Dan, you're a star! Go sub 50 and give Lasse a challenge! ;) |
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11/08/01 10:32:45 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Best expert: | 50 |
Best intermediate: | 13 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Got a 50 on expert. I wasn't expecting it at all because I had been playing somewhat slow and the game didn't feel any faster than 60 seconds. |
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11/08/01 05:19:09 AM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
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Comments: | Christopher, the only way to get rid of the timer jump bug is to upgrade to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Matt, I still can't run Camtasia until I upgrade my computer in next month or so. Once I do that, I should be able to record all of my games again. |
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11/07/01 06:17:05 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
Best expert: | 61 |
Best intermediate: | 10 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | Good job Luke and no, Christopher, there is no way around the timer jump. Hey Dan, why arent you making any videos nowadays? Same for you Lasse? |
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11/07/01 05:59:30 PM | |
Name: | Luke Gardiner |
Best expert: | 97 |
Best intermediate: | 31 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Got to three seconds for beginner :-) |
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11/07/01 05:27:21 PM | |
Name: | Christopher Brown |
Best expert: | 80 |
Best intermediate: | 25 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Trimmed down int and exp a little more today, which made for a perfect belated 18th b-day present to myself (yesterday 'twas the grand day). Now I can add the screenshots to my minesweeping shrine/mural in my locker at school ;) I've noticed through my readings on minesweeping that some people have a glitch on beginner where the clock jumps from 1 to 2 quickly. This also happens on my computer...is there any real way around it? |
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11/07/01 11:06:08 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Got 65 today |
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11/07/01 09:55:23 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | Sans doute! :-) |
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11/07/01 09:32:21 AM | |
Name: | Laure |
Best expert: | 92 |
Best intermediate: | 30 |
Best beginner: | 6 |
Comments: | I'm Manu's sister and I'm proud to be the star's sister of this game !!! personnal message (sorry) Oui Manu, je suis là !!! Juste un petit mot pour te montrer que je suis bien passée voir ce "super site " !!! En fait, j'ai eu trop de mal à retrouver ton message : je sais sans doute pas assez me servir de ce site ! Je te laisse parce que les autres ne vont peut-être pas apprécier que je fasse un spécial message Manu en français, non ? Et puis, moi et l'anglais...On risquerait de ne pas me comprendre !!! BISOUS. |
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11/07/01 04:46:45 AM | |
Name: | roelof |
Best expert: | 66 |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | you don't need friends to challenge luke; we're here for that ;-) |
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11/06/01 07:37:28 PM | |
Name: | Luke Gardiner |
Best expert: | 97 |
Best intermediate: | 31 |
Best beginner: | 4 |
Comments: | Great site, I'm getting into minesweeper now, but i don't have any friends to challenge, and I don't kno what sort of techniques to use to cut my times further (just practice...) |
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11/06/01 03:53:44 PM | |
Name: | ben |
Best expert: | 64 |
Best intermediate: | still 17 |
Best beginner: | not 1 |
Comments: | going down slowly on exp... 64! |
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11/06/01 12:22:17 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
Best expert: | 51 |
Best intermediate: | 13 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | I thought I was going to sub-50 a few days ago when I was in the zone, big time. I had many games that felt slow but the clock showed low to mid 50's. There were three or four games where I just missed upper 40's. The last couple days have been bad, however. My clicking has become slow and I can't seem to react to patterns nearly as well as I did last weekend. I've been going through cycles all year. I was threatening to sub-50 back in late Spring, then I struggled, then I had up days and down days for awhile, now recently I've gone from struggling to sub-60 to breaking my record and back to struggling. |
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11/06/01 10:55:14 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Not complaining Matt, but I was just wondering why I wasn't updated in your recent update of your page? In the past 2 days I've gotten a 67 and 66 but I so easily slip out of form and into form nowadays, mainly out of form! Dan - I think you are going to sub 50 some time cause you are constantly inproving. well done! |
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11/06/01 05:59:02 AM | |
Name: | Lasse Nyholm |
Best expert: | 44 |
Best intermediate: | 13 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | I'm not on a very consistent pace these days. I only get a couple of sub-60s when I play for an hour or so, but I've gotten a 47 and a 48 within the last week anyway. I try to train without flags (n.f.) and got two 70s yesterday and missed a possible 63/64 at 60s on the clock. I got a 70 n.f. this morning waiting for my coffee to cool down ;) Congrats Matt, Dan and other recordbreakers - Lanyje |
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11/05/01 07:09:45 PM | |
Name: | anna |
Best expert: | 127 |
Best intermediate: | 38 |
Best beginner: | 7 |
Comments: | I love this game, especially in the morning when I wait for my coffee to cool a little. Bye |
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11/05/01 04:21:30 PM | |
Name: | Ben Drucker |
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Best intermediate: | See below |
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Comments: | Apparently the assholes at Angelfire aren't allowing their users to store images that aren't linked to by HTML files stored on their site. So, try this link instead. |
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11/05/01 03:30:02 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
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Comments: | Damien, is there ever going to be another complete update of the score lists? |
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11/05/01 03:27:02 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Something's wrong with the page Ben. |
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11/05/01 03:19:03 PM | |
Name: | Ben Drucker |
Best expert: | 72 |
Best intermediate: | 19 (Fuck!) |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Fuck. I just screwed up what should have been a 17 or at most 18 on the fastest goddamn intermediate board I've ever seen...instead I end up with a 20. Click on the web page link below for the screenshot. |
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11/05/01 10:19:58 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | Perfect. Any news on possible updates by the way? |
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11/05/01 10:11:48 AM | |
Name: | Damien |
Comments: | Best of luck to you two...by the way, Jeff Gessert and Dan Marshall have both broken their scores under the sub-60's recently, so that's a trend: another trend is that once you get in the low 50's you can't find the time anymore (except for lasse and dan). Ok guys, the enema is gone. |
11/05/01 10:06:27 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | I don't like the guy and want rid of him. Well done Matt but I hope I sub 60 before you. The only thing is I don't play much, maybe 30 mins a day how bout you? |
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11/05/01 07:37:11 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | Well, I guess I've been back here more often than I promised myself. But anyway... I don't really think the Enema adds much to the quality of the message board, I would rather not have to read his posts. Certainly I wouldn't want to see this message board looking like Slashdot at -1. |
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11/04/01 10:52:58 PM | |
Name: | Roelof |
Best expert: | 66 |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | I don't think he's funny, I think he's a loser. Maybe you should protect him for himself by banning his ID. But I'm not bothered either if you don't. Just a suggestion. |
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11/04/01 02:38:21 PM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | 'grats Matt, you're freaking the rest of us out. I was going to ban enima's IP but he's kind of funny...don't you guys agree? I'll just leave things as they are and try to fit in some sweeping. |
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11/04/01 02:23:44 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
Best expert: | 61 |
Best intermediate: | 10 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | I dont know whether to be happy or sad or angry...or what. 61- yes, new record, sub-60? nope....am I closer to my potential? Well yes, but dammit! I finished 3 expert games today- 61, 65, 66. That is actually a new personal record for expert games in one day for me. I figure that if I finish more games and work on finishing almost every board I get, I can get into the skill of playing quickly for the entire 60 or so seconds instead of the 30-40 seconds Im usually at right now. If anyone wants the videos of my 61, 62, 65 or 66, just email me. If youre too lazy, they'll be up on my site along with over 20 int. videos. |
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11/04/01 09:35:51 AM | |
Name: | Fox |
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Comments: | That guy is such a scumbag. I feel sorry for him. He really does sound as if he has a mental problem so let's go easy on him. I don't want to be responsible for the mental breakdown or deprevation of someone. Poor soul. Sorry if i offended you Bandit person. If I may offer you one pice of advice - go see a psychiatrist, that is if you aren't already attending one. |
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11/03/01 11:08:14 PM | |
Name: | Anonymous Surfer |
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Comments: | Assuming he's in Illinois: Kenyon, Michael 160 Red Cedar Dr, Streamwood, IL 60107-2232 (630)213-2471 Kenyon, Michael 1250 E Main St, South Elgin, IL 60177-1712 (847)742-0198 Kenyon, Michael J Jr 8N675 Il Route 25, Elgin, IL 60120-8809 (847)697-7136 |
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11/03/01 10:52:21 PM | |
Name: | joe nuss |
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Comments: | so holmes, do you give enemas, or have them done to you? and is harrassing people via the internet your way of acting out because you were abused as a child? what a thug! |
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11/03/01 04:24:32 PM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | Personally, I kind of dislike the idea of a program that'd make sure you got an opening on the first click...Narkomania already does that and thus it doesn't count for the records pages. I think you understand, David, what I'm suggesting: a program that simply does the F2 function for you at a customizable time so you save time. It wouldn't help you win games, but it would prevent you from being able tofinish really slow games. I view it this way: I already know how to play minesweeper well, so why waste time finishing all the bad games as well? It might give you an extra 5 min an hour and so slightly raise how many good games (by your own standard) you finish each hour. |
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11/03/01 09:16:40 AM | |
Name: | Paul Kerry |
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Comments: | Footballers who watch eachother to find new ways to dribble the ball are not cheating :-) However that wasn't ever part of my argument, nor an extension of it. Camtasia is not a 3rd party program that (directly) interacts with Minesweeper. On a related note, I would say though, that it is extremely unfortunate that Camtasia creates lag. I'd suggest those who do use Camtasia use a very low frame rate to minimize that effect. Pressing F2 at an appropriate time, at the moment, is a skill that some people have. I believe Matt has it fairly well pegged, and maybe it is one of the reasons he does so well at Intermediate. I think a program which *autuomatically* disposes of bad boards (By the same token, if someone has something that makes a beep every 20 seconds (a timer, a java utility) and they care to press F2, some of my argument falls away (doesn't mean I like the idea though!) :) Cheers. |
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11/03/01 05:02:06 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | It is nice to know that someone thinks me important enough to make up my death. :) Paul, I don't have a problem with an automated new game clicker, for want of a better term. Such a program wouldn't affect your sweeping, only increase the number of games that you would play per unit time. If you take your argument further, should we be allowed to use videos to study different playing styles? etc. If anything, a "new game" program would be an equaliser of sorts - it would take away that huge advantage that skilled pressers of the F2 key have. |
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11/03/01 02:47:33 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | The person who pretended to be you must be this "bandit"-figure. He wanted to be the first to 'react' but didn't want to do that immediately, because we'd know it was him. But he had no patience: 6 minutes after "Sriram's" message mister bandit posted his post. Now that's a coincidence: a non-minesweeper visites this guestbook and posted a message within 6 minutes after this (at that time) important message. And by the way, whoever hates the minesweeper community and thinks we're all losers or all gay or whatever, no-one would be this respectless, unless he knew for sure the message wasn't true. Roelof |
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11/03/01 02:35:41 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | What a sick joke, I'm glad you cleared things up this soon Sriram. |
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11/03/01 01:41:12 AM | |
Name: | Sriram Sridharan |
Best expert: | 49 |
Best intermediate: | 14 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Okay, let me clear things up. I am the real guy writing this!!!!! Here are a couple of things I want to share with you'll - I met David when writing the SAT examination today. Therefore, no way is he dead. - my email id does not begin with a capital 'S' in the beginning. - I always post my scores when composing the comments - Also, whoever wrote that pretending to be me, can you tell me where i am from and which state? - What's my middle name? - What's the name of the female sweeper whom I met. - Which school am I studying in? Therefore, all minesweepers, David is alive and well. The competition continues!!!! P.S - What kind of an idiot would waste his time in posting a stupid message like that. DAVE, CAN YOU POST SOMETHING HERE, TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE ALIVE? |
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11/02/01 11:47:09 PM | |
Name: | Lance |
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Comments: | That's terrible to hear, Sriram. What a tragedy. He will be in my prayers. |
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11/02/01 06:12:16 PM | |
Name: | Paul Kerry |
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Comments: | Hi all, I was wondering, I'm sick of having to start dozens of games to get a decent opening with my first click. Could somebody write a program to make sure that it happens. All those wasted games where I take half a dozen clicks really annoy me. Yeah. This post isn't meant to cause trouble, stir the pot, or whatever, it is just food for thought. FWIW, my inclination would be to slap big "cheater" stickers over the heads of anyone using a 3rd party program to alter the way in which Minesweeper works. Of course, the idea of an autoclicker and that program (or similar, set to tiny tiny value), on beginner would make getting 1 second a formality :-D Cheers. |
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11/02/01 05:41:49 PM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Comments: | I wouldn't call myself a great programmer, but I could probably make some quick and dirty program that starts a new game after 20sec. If no-one else has made in the next week or so, I will try and write it. Until then, I have SAT's today, and plenty of schoolwork waiting to be done. I'll be back here on Thursday or so. |
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11/02/01 04:11:55 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Speaking of programming, I just experienced the same loop of about 100 or so boards (lasted for maybe 20 mins) within an hour of itself. I played for an hour from 3-4, then at 4:45 or so I played again and within minutes I recognized the pattern of boards and finished some of the same ones in the same time for about 15-20 minutes. Is it just a coincidence that the same loop started over again, or is there some hidden programming aspect no one has discovered or told of yet? Has anyone else experienced what I just described? Damien, I have the same problem of finsihing 21's, 22's or whatever and feeling pissed that they weren't faster, but I can usually tell when Im at the 20 second mark, and whenever I look up when I feel that, I usualy find it at 20-22 and press F2. It would be ncie to have a programm to do that for you though. |
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11/02/01 03:26:42 PM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | How many programmers are there here? For months I have wanted a program you could run while playing minesweeper that you could set to track the timer: the idea is that say I set it to 20 seconds for int, the program would automatically begin a new game if the timer reaches 20s so you don't waste time playing games slower than what you consider good fr yourself. It'd save a lot of time and let us play more games. It has always annoyed me finishing games 21-25 seconds long that I'd thought were better, and it's too annoying to glance at the clock all the time so you can hit F2 again. Any takers? Ideas? |
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11/02/01 12:24:07 PM | |
Name: | Owen |
Best expert: | 63 but not for long! |
Best intermediate: | 12 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Hi All. Sorry about that last post I posted. It was quite unnecessary. Ryan particularly angered me. I agree that this guestbook shouldn't be a slagging ground or a place where we type anything we happen to be feeling but I don't agree that we should limit it as much as I think Damien suggests. Today I nearly beat my record and I nearly did yesterday too. Today I got 17,18,65,70,71,74 |
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11/02/01 12:27:50 AM | |
Name: | Khor Eng Tat |
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Comments: | No offense to anyone, but I do agree to what Damien, the guestbook moderator says. It's fine to slip in a couple of non-minesweeper stuff, or jibes or life stories. But you have to admit a lot times, some petty issues did get out of hand a bit and we end up spending days and days arguing over ONE particular word a person used to describe something. And I do think all of us need to lighten up a bit, and there is no need to slam other ppl's preferences or likings, unless it is really necessary or beneficial. |
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11/01/01 06:12:13 PM | |
Name: | joe nuss |
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Comments: | haha, no doubt *dances* |
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11/01/01 03:48:05 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Maybe our dull "congrats" posts were what irked our critics to post stuff about how they think we have no life and such. If I were as narrow-minded as those folks and went to, say, a solitare site where people just posted their lastest scores and there were some strings of people saying "congratulations" afterwards and that was the whole discussion, I might be motivated enough to chide them; the monotonous conversation makes it look like those solitare freaks I mentioned really dont have a life and they are very one-sided and bland people. That's what this guestbook turned into, but at least we have something interesting now, even if it is a tad hostile. And Damien, even if we are here for minesweeper and such, it is good to have a little life pumped in once in a while. Even if this guestbook goes dead again, Im pretty sure Daniela will be here to perplex and amuse us all. |
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11/01/01 02:57:23 PM | |
Name: | joe nuss |
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Comments: | woo. me and matt agree about something, hot damn. yeah, if something is "the shit" it means i like it. ;) damien, cool out homie. all i did was slip in a quick jibe expressing my disagreement with using the word "faggoty". i wasnt "childishly" suggesting he was a gay-basher. yeah, and roelof's kind of right, you were kind of inconsistent with that last post. some non-minesweeper stuff is cool, but not others? whatever though, like he said, it's your guestbook. woo. |
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11/01/01 02:48:14 PM | |
Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
Best expert: | 80s |
Best intermediate: | 20s |
Best beginner: | 2s |
Comments: | Ok, like I said in the message I haven't checked this page in some time...about 4 months. But I was quite disappointed when I went through and read most of the posts. Not very interesting at all. About the most interesting thing I read was someone giving congrats to someone else. Overall, pretty lame...I'm just being honest here. Ironically enough, that is probably why I quit posting/checking up on the web site. I remember the last time that I was previously using the site to both post and read messages...pretty much the same stuff. Owen started talking about his 1500 meter run time...then everyone started talking about the races that they ran in...then people started talking about star trek...badminton games...all this geeky shit. Personally, the only geeky shit that I want to read is minesweeper. That is just me and my opinion though. Also, ironically enough...I am the one complaining about the lack of insightful/interesting messages posted over what looks like the past four months. Not very insightful and pretty dull. Actually, I remember reading (about 4 months ago) about people complaining about the same thing. It can become a problem...pretty soon everyone feels the need to tell their life story because they think people are listening. And most of the fags that I meant are nice people. Ok...I'm not funny. Seriously though, I apologize if I really did offend someone. Later, Ryan |
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11/01/01 01:54:06 PM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | Well Damien, of course this is your site, but I'm sorry to say this message was written in a very unpleasant, teaching and arrogant tone. Another point: you say you "like Ancient One enough to leave him alone", while we can't discuss possibly offending comments of eachother, because "that's not why we're here". That doesn't sound very consistent to me. Again, it's your guestbook, and I agree with you in the cases of Simeon and your "fan", but in my opinion you shouldn't frighten people away with holding them to strict rules. Roelof |
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11/01/01 12:19:46 PM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | There have been a few problems in the guestbook lately. Simeon, if you do repeat posts again I will have to ban your IP. Same goes for my fan: next time he writes in the guestbook he will have his comp banned from accessing the site. The Ancient is an excellent poet, and while my tastes differ, I like him enough to leave him alone. The only thing that bothers be is a rather childish wave over the last 60 entries of correcting other peoples opinions and their use of language...if someone writes objectionably, I'll delete the words or entry, please don't clutter this up talking about whether someone is a gay basher or not; it's all rather amusing, but that's not why we're here. I finally broke 100 non-flagging on expert with an 87, best int 15, and I finished a random 2-click beginner game but the timer jumped so I was really pissed. And I found a third, new shift of the dreamboard yesterday that I'll try to post soon. Keep breaking those scores...except you dan, take a break till I start playing again. |
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11/01/01 12:01:58 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Oh and Owen- "The ancient one is the shit" is an americanism that basically means Joe likes him. |
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11/01/01 12:00:23 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Hmm dee do, where do I start? 1. I thought Ancient One's "earlier stuff" sucked majorly, but his latest installment was quite enjoyable. He seems to be a very emotional person. 2. Im not the Ancient One either. 3. Daniela is a crackhead. 4. And I thought the majority of players here were smart enough to not label poetry "faggoty ass" or make stupid "gay" jokes. I dont know any gays, but still, it's just plain ignorant to assume that everyone that writes poetry is gay, or to call other things you simply dont approve of "gay". Apparently there's ignorance everywhere, but I think we can try to curb it a bit here; I think we're all beyond sterotypes. |
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11/01/01 10:31:51 AM | |
Name: | Fox |
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Comments: | Just a few comments : 1. Why did you post so many times Simon? 2. Ryan : I am appreciative of forms of art. that story of the ancient one was very descriptive and anjoyable to read. If you are too stupid to understand it or uncivilised to appreciate it, then don't critisize it - insteaad shut your mouth and piss off. And by the way, it was a story, not a poem. 3. I'm not the ancient one 4. Well done guys on beating your records. Great job Lance and Roelef ;) 5. Joe - You shouldn't make fun of other peoples hobbies when you say that to others. Don't be a hippocric. What does " ancient one is the shit " mean? |
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11/01/01 08:11:40 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
Best expert: | 66! |
Best intermediate: | 20 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | YES! I just broke my expert score from 71 to 66. Nice improvement and a nice jump in the lists :-) I wasn't playing very well and, as always, I didn't notice I was so fast in this particulary game. Anyway, it is a friendly board, I have to say. If anyone wants the screenshot, just mail me. |
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11/01/01 07:52:52 AM | |
Name: | Daniela |
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Comments: | Congrats to all record breakers! I have access to the net only sporadically now, so if you don't hear from me for a long time, don't worry. I'm still going to break my best time because I can still play Minesweeper on my second computer which has no internet access. Only Camtasia doesn't run like a dream there, so I can only record at 5 frames/second. And yes, switching the versions is really better for speed. I tried it out today. I played on a 16*16 board with 39 mines (what if I get the dreamboard and lose it?) and played as fast as possible. I made a 23. |
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11/01/01 07:37:43 AM | |
Name: | Stephan |
Best expert: | 73 |
Best intermediate: | 21 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Hi. I'm so happy about improving my expert time today from 83s to 73s. Now I'm a sub-100s-over-all-player, too. Perhaps, one day, Damien will subscribe me to your record boards... |
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11/01/01 06:14:06 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | This is a minesweeper site, but we can discuss other things; there's no problem in that. Posting poems however doesn't seem very useful on a minesweeper site... I did give Ancient One a tip about another site. Simeon...why did you have to post that message so many times? Call me naive, but I can't see the point in that. I'm not gay myself, but I do know some people who are and they are the nicest people you can imagine. I have nothing against jokes, I believe you should have the right to makes jokes about everything (like at the moment Afghanistan), but the jokes I read about gay people on this site recently are really cheap. If you have a good joke about homosexuals however, I'd like to hear it! ;-) Roelof |
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10/31/01 09:23:55 PM | |
Name: | Joe |
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Comments: | a few thangs though: this is, after all, a minesweeper website. most likely not intended for poetry. while i find the ancient one's antics to be the most entertaining aspect of the guestbook, others may not. i concur that calling poetry faggoty isnt cool though. nor is fucking with gay people, ;) like i said, and you quoted, it's effed up to make fun of what someone does for fun. anyway, thatsit. i thoroughly enjoyed all those crazy posts too, simeon. keep on pimpin. |
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10/31/01 09:15:37 PM | |
Name: | joe nuss |
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Comments: | i agree with simeon's posts. every last fucking one of them. :) |
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10/31/01 08:36:32 PM | |
Name: | Simeon Schultz |
Best intermediate: | 30-35 (don't play itermediate much) |
Best beginner: | 10 (I will get it down to single figures - one day) |
Comments: | Hi, I'm pretty new to the game, but I love it. i really liket he site. First, Ryan, you shouldn't say "Don't post poetry...go find some faggoty ass website to do that" when your friend Joe Nuss has just made the very good point "everyone who thinks it's cool to make fun of other people's hobbies raise your hand...crickets chirp". Next, do you guys think changing the colours of the minesweeper boardwould make it easier on the eye. I haven't ever tried it, but I guess you could change the colour with the windows colour scheme, or else by fiddling with the program. Would this still ocomply with the rules for official records. |
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10/31/01 07:22:58 PM | |
Name: | Ryan Peckyno |
Best expert: | 80s |
Best intermediate: | 20s |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Well, I have not posted a message or played the game for probably around 4 months or so. I just decided to see if anything interesting was posted. However, I am getting tempted to play again...though there is nothing really left to understand about the game. I was hoping that I was missing something. Some comments.... 1. The one reason why I really like this game is its international appeal. There are no language barriers. And there is not a lot of required knowledge in order to be able to analyze...it is simply raw analysis. You do not have to know a lot of buzz words. I guess that is why I find myself coming back to this game and games like it. 2. Don't post poetry...go find some faggoty ass website to do that. 3. Xiaohu Zhang...read some of my past posts (I can't remember what I posted here vs. other places, etc.) they may give you some insight. I've already basically done what you are asking about. |
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10/31/01 04:05:17 PM | |
Name: | Dan Cerveny |
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Comments: | Christopher, beginner seems easier on XP because it IS easier. The beginner board on win98 is 8x8 with 10 mines, the win2k and winxp boards are 9x9 with 10 mines. |
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10/31/01 03:21:28 PM | |
Name: | Joe Nuss |
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Comments: | ancient one is the shit |
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10/31/01 12:31:03 PM | |
Name: | Christopher Brown |
Best expert: | 84 |
Best intermediate: | 26 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Over the past 12 days I brought my expert time down 15 seconds (99-90-87-84) and lowered int by 1. It seems to me that the WinXP mswpr substantially improves your times. I can't say this for certain, as I was playing at a friends house, but on beginner I got 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 18 in about an hour and a half, while it took me well over 6 hours of credible play to get 2 x 2, 3 x 2, 4 x 12 on my computer with the 98 (and 3.1) versions. The beginner boards seem easier to me on the XP version, but I'd need to play more to be sure. The colors definitely help though, in my opinion. A friend of mine went from 128 to 103 on exp during the version switch (of course... he's always improving as are we all) |
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10/31/01 10:38:52 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | Matt The error is " pruple " i think it is supposed to be purple. Today I got 68 which was only my 2nd game finished. overall my exp playing isn't up to standards these days. I also got 16, 19x3, 20x3 today. |
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10/31/01 08:01:14 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | Well done Lance, I hope I'll sub-70 soon as well. |
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10/31/01 06:08:54 AM | |
Name: | David Barry |
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Best intermediate: | 61 |
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Comments: | Damien, any chance of getting a text-only guestbook/message board? I remember once a message board that allowed HTML in the titles that was ruined because of abuse of this property. Keep sweeping, everyone. Down to 61 on Crazy int., but I haven't been playing much again, our break from school is too short. |
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10/30/01 04:36:36 PM | |
Name: | Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: | 69!!!! |
Best intermediate: | 18 |
Best beginner: | 1 |
Comments: | Yay! I FINALLY went sub-70 for the first time today! I have been playing intermediate for the last three weeks or so, and have made a lot of progress there, and then today I decided to switch back to expert, and I got a 69 on my first finished game of the day! I'm so happy! My goal for the year is still a 65, but now I'm gonna have to set another goal beyond that: 2 mines/sec!! Lance |
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10/30/01 03:44:10 PM | |
Name: | Matt McGinley |
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Comments: | Why is that a mistake Owen? Is your favorite color not blue or green? ;) Email me and tell me what you mean, because I dont get it. And does anyone else have difficulty with crazy minesweeper? Is there some sort of trick? How do you clear the board so quickly (13 seconds on int, I heard) when it is so difficult to tell what value mines are where? My best beginner time is 5, and I have yet to finish anything else... |
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10/30/01 02:27:39 PM | |
Name: | Manu |
Best expert: | 68 |
Best intermediate: | 15 |
Best beginner: | 2 |
Comments: | Congratulations to peopole who brake their records in the last few days. I made a 72 on expert and a 19 on inter tonight ( my 7th sub-20 ). I think that I can beat my expert record and become regular under 20 on inter in the next weeks. :) Good luck to everybody. |
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10/30/01 11:44:38 AM | |
Name: | Owen |
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Comments: | 1. Dan send us the video if you have it and Congratulations! ;) 2. Matt, your board is a very good one but you played it Very Well. Apart from speed, your technique was aplaudable. 3. Matt you have an error on your page. quote " Even more studies have shown a link between preferred colors of poeple of different intelligence levels. Blues and greens are the colors most commonly preferred by geniuses, as well as shades of those two and pruple. " 4. I liked reading the divine critic article by Paul |
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10/30/01 08:34:06 AM | |
Name: | Ben Van Calster |
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Comments: | coming closer Dan... good job |
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10/30/01 08:20:38 AM | |
Name: | Damien |
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Comments: | Looks like I have a fan on the other side of the fence, but that entry is now in the dustbin. Thanks for the warning Lance. |
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10/30/01 08:20:24 AM | |
Name: | AJ |
Best expert: | 73 |
Best intermediate: | 21 |
Best beginner: | 3 |
Comments: | Firstly I'd like to congratulate Dan and Matt on beating their expert scores. Secondly regarding our critic(s), well I'd personally like to see him say that to our faces, especially to Matt,Dan and Damien !! I mean these guys are giants by the looks of things - I know I would be scared of them if I got on the wrong side of these guys !!!! |
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10/30/01 07:53:28 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
Comments: | Very pathetic, whoever took the trouble of composing that second picture. |
10/30/01 07:40:17 AM | |
Name: | Roelof |
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Comments: | Congrats Dan! That's the way.I'm going to look at your pictures now Damien. |
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