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Feb 22nd 2004 at 04:58:46 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

HEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!!

Ok, so I got back from a week of snowboarding and my new mouse had arrived. I thought that I could finally start beating my records but no chance!
The mouse movement is so jerky that it makes it impossible to get close to my best times (my best 79 so far... )

It's a Cordless MouseMan Optical from Logitech. Everytime I hit a button the mouse seems to stuck for a fraction of a second. I have already downloaded the advanced Mouseware from Logitech, but that didn't help either.
Any suggestions...?

Feb 21st 2004 at 07:06:18 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

I've been playing intermediate today. I got a 13 earlier, but a game I played just now was a 27 3BV. It is not the dreamboard and I don't have any screenshot of that board in my collection. I messed up with 9 seconds on the clock and 3 squares left to clear. Unfortunately, each of the 3 remaining squares was in a different corner of the board, so I estimate it would have been an 11, maybe 12.

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Feb 21st 2004 at 03:52:49 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best intermediate:  

20 --> 18

Comments:  

WOW!
The nicest board that I have ever seen

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Feb 21st 2004 at 03:24:34 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Best intermediate:  

19 (x5)

Comments:  

ok so now i have gotten 19 5 times, in the last two months or so, i have missed a 16 and a 13 (estimated) and this is really frustrating. i haven't broken a record in quite some time (since the 66 in expert) argggggg

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Feb 21st 2004 at 11:08:12 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

For those interested in random number generation, google "mersenne twister"

(yes, to google really is a verb now )

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Feb 21st 2004 at 04:49:32 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Gustaf, I would very much like to see your 69! Way to go! Although I don't play anymore I would still enjoy watching a nice video! Just send it to my e-mail.

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Feb 20th 2004 at 06:43:35 PM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

I live in Nova Scotia, in Canada. By the way, that snowfall was in one day. Luckily, my neighbour is an excavator and brought his backhoe to our driveway to clear it away. That snow drift was 5 feet high.

Feb 20th 2004 at 05:02:31 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Comments:  

Greetings from Sweden!!!
There's a lot of snow here to
Somebody wanna see and comment my 69?

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Feb 20th 2004 at 04:12:01 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Where do you live Dave?!?

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Feb 20th 2004 at 04:10:39 PM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Best expert:  

99

Best intermediate:  

29

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Hey Everyone,

This has nothing to do with minesweeper, but we just had a crapload of snow where I live. 83 cm last time I heard. That's almost a frickin' metre!!! I hate shovelling at the best of times. Ughh.

Good luck Sweeping!

Feb 20th 2004 at 03:29:59 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Gustaf I cant see you on chat...

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Feb 20th 2004 at 02:58:01 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

69

Comments:  

Yeah!! There it is 69 weeeeee
I'm lovin it!!!!

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Feb 20th 2004 at 02:49:35 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Rodrigo here is the vid :

http://www.securityguardmn.com/56.mvf

You can put it on your web site and also put my name in special thanks list

Few words about program :

-This background color is killing my eyes, its too bright. Use (almost) original minesweeper colors, I think its the best solution
-Try to eliminate guessing(when you must guess, etc. 50-50 when there is no entrance from other squares), at least in cheat mode, and why not in normal?!? (OK I know true randomization will be avoided, but...)
-Numbers showing statistics are waaaay too small, use at least twice bigger!!! (and i'm in 1024x76 I wanna see it sometimes during play.
-It seems pixel response is a little slow (few milliseconds maybe). I mean when you open empty square it needs maybe few milliseconds more than original minesweeper to show number. Try to optimize that, or use 256 color scheme. And maybe I just have such a feeling, cause I'm used to original mines
-I wanna see multiplayer before 0.6 beta, at least you should think about that




@David - you see, I've learned my solver to work even with Rodrigo clone, its maybe little slow for now but it will be better

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Feb 20th 2004 at 01:33:37 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Comments:  

No good times for the moment...uff... and my srever put a banner on my site!!! grr!!!!!

Feb 20th 2004 at 01:23:15 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Best expert:  

66

Comments:  

what i find even more interesting is the amount that some sweepers play, is the fact that some loser can actually look up a minesweeper site on the internet to mock them. That astonishes me like i'm really not sure what that dude was thinking he was doing. Damien, is there someway you can delete posts like that? not that it hurts cause i am fairly sure my life is a little more successful than mister suck balls or whatever, but who needs to see that?

Feb 20th 2004 at 11:16:02 AM
Name:  

asdf

Comments:  

how do u delete these things?

Feb 20th 2004 at 11:15:33 AM
Name:  

laurensucksballsaton

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Feb 20th 2004 at 11:14:22 AM
Name:  

dildoinmouth

Comments:  

O_____________________________________\
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Feb 20th 2004 at 11:13:26 AM
Name:  

life4ballssuck

Comments:  

ya i saw it too. minesweeper was sucking my balls while i was playing it

Feb 20th 2004 at 11:12:43 AM
Name:  

suckballs4ever

Comments:  

ya i saw his balls being sucked. It was a doll

Feb 20th 2004 at 11:09:50 AM
Name:  

suckballs4life

Best expert:  

1

Best intermediate:  

1

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

ya i almost got zero but my gf was sucking my balls. **** shes fine

cumshot

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Feb 20th 2004 at 08:11:22 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

71

Comments:  

Missed 70 with the last klick f*ck ;( . Well, getting closer 2 sub70. Made a 72 as well.
Sweep on everybody

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Feb 20th 2004 at 05:04:10 AM
Name:  

Dion

Best expert:  

48

Comments:  

OMG, I screwed up a 47 with one square left *cries*
Sigh, Im on the verge of breaking my record. I've had so many chances to break my record.

http://diontiu.tripod.com/missed47.JPG

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Feb 20th 2004 at 04:39:29 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Martin: I thought about that, but when I got my 3, I was listed behind Lance's 3, even if my time was of newer date, of course. Unfortunately, Jason didn't clear out that myth.

@Robert: The 3BV counter and player are programmed by Sorin Manea. I'm just an excited user Of course, the programs can be downloaded in the addicts group (I don't remember the name there).

@Roman: Please slow down! With your current scores, I don't have any chance to compete with you

Feb 20th 2004 at 02:51:35 AM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Best intermediate:  

14 --> 13

Comments:  

Five days ago I got 54 on expert. I dreamed about 16 on intermediate to repeat my previous AR 70 seconds (I have only three 16 sec games in my minesweeper career), so I played a lot on intermediate. 3BV was 38, excellent board - I finished it without flagging!!!
Maybe I should stop playing minesweeper five hours per day

Links:
http://gammel.pisem.net/video/13-1.avi (from minesweeper player)
http://gammel.pisem.net/txt/13-1.txt - txt-file
http://gammel.pisem.net/scr/13-1.png - screenshot

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Feb 19th 2004 at 04:35:28 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Hey Stevan, could you please send me your video?

I would love to watch it!

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Feb 19th 2004 at 02:02:13 PM
Name:  

Hopsing

Comments:  

got the prog from Stephan Bechtel
did you program it on your own?

Feb 19th 2004 at 02:00:31 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Nice 55.23 vid with Rodrigo clone, nothing special but still fastest

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Feb 19th 2004 at 01:46:03 PM
Name:  

Hopsing

Comments:  

I have tried them, but the graphics are awful and it wasn't too helpful.
What I found most helpful: http://www.frankwester.net/mine_standard.html

Feb 19th 2004 at 01:38:34 PM
Name:  

Michael S. Repton

Best expert:  

78 (x3)

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hopsing: have you tried the Minesweeper guides at http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/12024.html? The one by zarathustra47 is particularly good.

Feb 19th 2004 at 01:36:26 PM
Name:  

Hopsing

Comments:  

@ Martin Toft Madson
That's normally the way I do it, but that does not prevent me from doing such mistakes from time to time.
No other remarks to my expert game? Does that mean that was the only possibility?
I have uploaded another image, just check my website. Please help if you have a spare minute.
Another question: I haven't yet found a program with which I can check the Bv/s. Just the minesweeper reader, but it's rather complicated. I saw I small prog in the videos of stephan bechtel. Does anybody know that prog? I didn't find anything in the yahoo minesweeper-addicted group either.

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Feb 19th 2004 at 09:48:11 AM
Name:  

Stephen

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

19

Comments:  

k first of all congratulations on the quitting of minesweeper, Dennis. Lol you seem to have put more entries into this guestbook since you 'quit'. on another note, i just about beat my intermediate record, with an estimated 16, 76% done, and 4.04 3bv/s. This is by far the fastest 3bv/s i have ever had with that much completed. it was a stupid error, too, i just put the flag on the wrong square and because i was going so fast, i just did the two button click and that was all she wrote. I have the video if anybody's interested (email me)

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Feb 19th 2004 at 08:59:48 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Hopsing, just a tip: Instead of seeing if there's six mines around the 6 it's easier to see if there are two spots where there isn't any mines

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Feb 19th 2004 at 08:11:59 AM
Name:  

Hopsing

Best expert:  

145

Best intermediate:  

43

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi
got nice 3 sec on beginner recently, makes me really proud.
But I'm stuck at expert.
To improve I uploaded an image of my last expert game.
I overlooked the 6 I marked but can you profis give me any hints what I should have done else?
Here's the link: http://www.benditz.de/bilder/expert1.jpg
Shouldn't take you long since you're used to be fast in analyzing such situations.
Thanks alot in advance.
Bye
Hopsing

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Feb 19th 2004 at 08:10:53 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Stephan, I think it's sorted by date with the newest first, because my rank is better than Lance's on beginner, even though I have the same score.

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Feb 19th 2004 at 06:19:00 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Detrusor: well, I made the program get a new seed everytime a game is started. So, I believe there will be no cycling in the game. But I didn't check it yet. I will make some studies about that and tell everyone.

However, as someone said here some time ago, it's very likely that the number of boards that can be generated is limited, due to the fact that computers use a pseudo-random number generator. But the number of boards seems to be 24 bits, and not 16, as claimed. So, there are 16,777,216 different boards, independent from beginner, intermediate, or expert.

I will try to create a good algorithm for correcting this. I would like to write an article about this issue, to put my discoveries in it. If I do it, I will tell you guys.

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Feb 19th 2004 at 06:12:53 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

better:
-=Stephan Bechtel=-

Feb 19th 2004 at 06:11:31 AM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Stephan,

Sign as "1Stephan Bechtel"

Feb 19th 2004 at 05:44:42 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Hey Jason, please don't say that in your highscore lists the times are sorted by name of the player. I just wonder why I always am in last position, even if I was the first one to get a 18...

Feb 18th 2004 at 03:09:27 PM
Name:  

Jason

Comments:  

Martin, sorry about the bug. I haven't tested my implementation thouroughly due to lack of time.

Stephan, congratulations on the intermediate time! My minesweeper implementation generally runs quicker when played on a faster computer (more speed/memory = faster applet). The global high scores do require you to be connected to the Internet.

I probably wont have time to make any fixes or enhancements (unless there is a linux OS or something out there that wants me to port the application for their product and decides to provide some funding).

In the mean time, hope it's enjoyed:
http://www.kangarooit.com/minesweeper/

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Feb 18th 2004 at 12:44:32 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Ahhh.... D*mn!
www.gymks.dk/lort/close1.png
I know I'm gonna beat that record soon!

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Feb 18th 2004 at 11:14:44 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Comments:  

...and another question : if you change your mouse cursor (ex : a right-oriented (?) arrow), does the 'cheat' still appear behind your cursor ?

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Feb 18th 2004 at 11:11:40 AM
Name:  

Detrusor

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I'm sorry, Rodrigo... I've not read all what have been said about your clone, but i wonder one thing. How are the grid generated ? cycled ? completely random ?
Did you make a version where the board is randomly chose, but with 3BV limits (ex : 90-230) ?

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Feb 18th 2004 at 01:49:12 AM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

woo, started playing again now between homeworks, got a 18-69 for this coming ranking yay

Feb 18th 2004 at 01:11:35 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Brendan: I'm sure that I was at least 10-85-326 in 1993, but I think I started in 1992 or even 1991.

@Case: That's of course a good reason for high resolutions. I'm probably the very counterpart of yours: when I play minesweeper, all other applications are minimized as I tend to hit some point outside the minesweeper window when I clik around wildly at the beginning of each game...

Feb 17th 2004 at 11:15:45 PM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

hmm... im close to 1993 for my first wins, but i cant remember exactly.

Feb 17th 2004 at 10:58:53 PM
Name:  

brendan murphy

Best expert:  

in the 400's probably

Best intermediate:  

200's

Best beginner:  

9 seconds

Comments:  

this site blew my mind. I can't believe it. I thought I was a toughguy with 9 seconds on beginner. Here you guys are with 1 second. Christ. I'll bet I hit 9 seconds before any of you guys, though! hmmf. It was in spring of 93. I was working at IBM in Fla. and we had some spare time down there and I finished beginner in 9 seconds. It was on win3.1 on an old Aptiva. So there.

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Feb 17th 2004 at 06:24:42 PM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

if i really wanted to, i could change my screen resolution to make the minesweeper game bigger. I just dont see any reason to bother with changing my resolution just to play minesweeper. hmm.. now that i think about it, if you made it bigger for my old resolution i'd have to change my mouse speed to compensate, so i guess either way i have to change my settings

Feb 17th 2004 at 05:55:22 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Well, even like that, if you guys think there's no problem in including this feature, I can try to include it.

In the cheat mode, of course!

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Feb 17th 2004 at 05:50:41 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Case, when I was just starting to have the first ideas about creating a clone of Minesweeper, I wondered if it would be nice to have an option to make the square's size customizable. I decided that this is not a good idea, because even the size of the squares is an important factor to keep competitivity with the original Minesweeper. I mean that the gameplay of my program must be exactly the same as the original. It should not be more difficult to play - and neither easier to play! It must be exactly the same.

Could you get what I mean? Recently, everybody claimed that the lack of the 3x3 depressing feature was making the gameplay more difficult - some people were not achieving the same times they used to achieve in the original. Then I implemented it and now it is the same. By making bigger squares, the game will be easier, not only to you, but probably for others - and it must not be easier, it must be the same.

Even though, Microsoft Windows comes with a Magnifying Glass (or Zoom Lens, I don't know the name in English). I believe there is no problem to play the game with the help of this program in your case.

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Feb 17th 2004 at 03:53:24 PM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

ew, no stephan, my desktop never has icons except for recent temporary files that are there as a reminder to be deleted! I use the high resolution because i'm a huge multitasker, often running mIRC, IE, DOS command prompts, explorer, random programming environments and whatnot all at the same time. I like to be able to see everything at once instead of having to tab back and forth one at a time.

Feb 17th 2004 at 03:28:26 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

I also tried your Java version, Jason. Very nice work
I found a bug though:
www.gymks.dk/lort/bug.png

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Feb 17th 2004 at 12:53:05 PM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Jason, your program is good when played with high-speed LAN, but not good with modem. Even when playing it offline at home, not every square I clicked was revealed (bug). Nonetheless, I got a nice 18 in int

By the way, is it necessary to be online when getting a global record? I didn't say OK in the dialogue box until I was connected to the net again, and afterwards, it seemed to me that the record was transferred.

Feb 17th 2004 at 05:17:46 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

That java version of Jason (cornflake) is really nice. Maybe the best online minesweeper game I've seen so far.
@Case: that resolution is really crazy. Is it to place 1000s of icons on the desktop ?

Feb 17th 2004 at 01:55:16 AM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

Rogdrigo, i have another thing i'd like to ask. How feasible is it to make your program change the actual size of the game? I like to keep my screen resolution at a crazy size (1920x1440), but this makes minesweeper appear TINY. It considerably slows my times because it's harder to read+pinpoint the little boxes. So if you can make your program have a mode like 2x or 1.5x or something that makes it appear larger on the screen, i would be so appreciative. Likewise for some people who run in smaller resolutions, maybe a 1/2 size mode would be nice? I like minesweeper to be bigger than it is for me, but i'm sure that some would like it to be smaller maybe?

I hate to have to change my screen resolution just to play a game it causes my monitor's presets to get messed up and i have to adjust everything everytime i switch resolutions.

Feb 17th 2004 at 01:34:14 AM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Comments:  

Well done Cornflakes!
Java is teh_best!!!

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Feb 16th 2004 at 06:21:34 PM
Name:  

Cornflake

Best expert:  

150

Best intermediate:  

48

Best beginner:  

8

Comments:  

Love the website. I wrote a Minesweeper web game a few years back. I just uploaded it to the web. Check it out here if you want a go:
http://www.kangarooit.com/minesweeper/

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Feb 16th 2004 at 03:39:33 PM
Name:  

Michael S. Repton

Best expert:  

78 (x3)

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Just got my second ever 3; this time I've snapshotted it and put it on my website. Question: ought I to be ashamed for not having got a 2 on this board, or is 3 OK?

On another note, it is REALLY annoying to keep getting 78s!

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Feb 16th 2004 at 02:09:57 PM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

Georgi, Neil Collins from the UK should be on the best ever list, 2-18-52.

Feb 16th 2004 at 01:00:13 PM
Name:  

Hamed

Best expert:  

77

Comments:  

Hi...what an interesting site !!!!
my best time in expert was 77 and i was thinking "WOW!!!what a record!!!"...but after finding this site,i got discouraged !!!So many people with so much better scores !!!but i think i'm still the bst among normal people !!!and i just play when i'm talking to phone!!!so 77 musn't be that bad!!!and how can i get on your list???!!!i think i'm the second iranian (after pooria mirkhosravi !!!)...have fun with GREAT MINESWEEPER!!!
Hamed...

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Feb 16th 2004 at 06:58:05 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Best expert:  

59 ---> 56

Comments:  

I finally improved my expert score
I soon realized that I was going fast. That resulted in me using 2 extra seconds on a pattern in the end, just to be sure I should finish the board. Still room for improvement, then. 109 3BV, so it was a nice board. My new mouse (Microsoft Optical or something) seems to work nice now. I haven't really been able to go very fast on intermediate yet, so I hope to get a lucky board before the AR deadline. I uploaded the 56 to my web site.

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Feb 16th 2004 at 05:47:28 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

Are there any other linux users here who use wine to run windows program? I can't get Rodrigo's minesweeper clone to work, presumably because of the VB runtime libraries - I used wine to run the install program, I'm not sure where its putting them though

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Feb 15th 2004 at 09:34:24 PM
Name:  

Matt Priest

Best expert:  

76

Best intermediate:  

19

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hey Georgi

I want to be on your list! I've just started playing hardcore in the last year or so and have never been on a list yet since they are starting to get updated again. So what do you say? Can I be on your list?

Feb 15th 2004 at 05:40:58 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Comments:  

I very much like your clone rodrigo, especially with the new 3x3 square depress thing. excellent job i approve very much of it, particularly because of its ability to play low 3bv boards and practice on them.

Feb 15th 2004 at 04:36:35 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

Excellent Roman, I wondered why no more Russians in top 50 as you are known as matematicians physicians etc.

@Hopsing - keep trying, mines is not only intelligence, but also reflexes, memory, and whats the most important - luck.

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Feb 15th 2004 at 02:13:09 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Comments:  

Best Ever Ranking updated:
http://www.geocities.com/joro100/bestever.html

all known sub-70ers:
http://www.geocities.com/joro100/sub70.html

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Feb 15th 2004 at 01:07:16 PM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

Best expert:  

56 --> 54

Comments:  

Ooohhhh! I can't express my feelings, I'm so happy, now I'm best known russian sweeper.

3BV=116

Vid: http://gammel.pisem.net/video/54-1.avi (from minesweeper player)
Txt: http://gammel.pisem.net/txt/54-1.txt
Screenshot: http://gammel.pisem.net/scr/54-1.png

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Feb 15th 2004 at 09:29:31 AM
Name:  

Hopsing

Best expert:  

153

Best intermediate:  

51

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi
How many of your expert games do you usually finish?
I rareley finish expert games but that's probably caused by me stupidity.
Bye Hopsing

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Feb 15th 2004 at 06:35:52 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Hello again everybody,

I have released a new version of my clone, the 0.54 beta, wich now includes the so-desired 3x3 squares depressing feature! Sorry for taking too long to include it!

It has also some other very small bugs corrected, and, thanks to everybody for helping me! I think the program is being fine-tuned very well for everyone's preferences! I would like that you check it out and please tell me what you think. How close is the program to the "Perfect Minesweeper" mentioned some weeks ago?

It still didn't reach this level, but if everybody plays the game and don't find any error, or problem, or suggestion, for some consecutive weeks, will the program be fine to be accepted for scores in the AR? How can it be done? Does this question have to be decided in votation? I would really appreciate to have my game accepted, I would be very proud of it!

As I can't play THAT fast, I would like at least to contribute by programming!

Thanks to all again!
Rodrigo

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Feb 15th 2004 at 05:50:31 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Comments:  

Nothing special. Just a Microsoft Optical with a scroll wheel. I think for me, it was just using a new mouse, it probably could have been any mouse better than my old one. It was just too big, and the buttons were much harder to push than this one.

Feb 14th 2004 at 10:45:57 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

What mouse you use?!?

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Feb 14th 2004 at 11:36:59 AM
Name:  

Dave Matson

Best expert:  

107 --> 99!!!!!!

Best intermediate:  

29

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

I don't believe it. It took me a long time, but I finally broke the 100 barrier. I tell 'ya, a new mouse makes a big difference. I think it was Martin Madsen or Dave Morgan who mentioned the new mouse, whoever it was, thanks a lot!!!

Next long term goal: sub 100 total

Feb 14th 2004 at 11:19:13 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

According to what you have written in your bio, Dan, you have a very boring life

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Feb 14th 2004 at 09:52:09 AM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

active ranking year sum record at the bottom should be 59 now by Lasse instead of 60 shouldn't it?

Feb 14th 2004 at 09:27:25 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

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Feb 13th 2004 at 08:21:55 PM
Name:  

Paul

Comments:  

... no reminder and, of course, I forget to submit the best time I could've managed in a fair while. Expert time in the 50's and I'm clearly spending too much time at my computer!

Feb 13th 2004 at 05:00:16 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

I hope so, Martin!

I just spent some time wathcing 'Fight Club' instead! WOW! What a seriously cick-ass spectacular movie! I'd definitely recommend it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet!

...No wonder my friends were laughing their asses off when I told them I hadn't watched 'Fight Club' yet! It's certainly a MUST for any movie 'freak'!

Haven't played at all today! I'm so proud of myself!

Feb 13th 2004 at 04:29:22 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Sorry to see you go, Dennis, but I guess you know best yourself

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Feb 13th 2004 at 02:24:32 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

65

Best intermediate:  

17

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Bad period...no good times for AR

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Feb 13th 2004 at 12:24:50 PM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

Sorry I forgot to remind everyone of the active ranking deadline today.

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Feb 13th 2004 at 04:01:53 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Hey Roelof, nice to hear from you. Holland is pretty quiet since Marc and you both quitted the game.
But the AR definitively is very active these days.

Feb 13th 2004 at 02:49:23 AM
Name:  

Roelof Smit

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hey guys,

Wow, I just saw the AR page: 40 players this period... and a nice new feature. I guess the list never was this active before

Is everyone still OK? I'm pretty fine. I think I once posted a message here since I quit. Should do that more often...

And Damien... please update my scores! Haha, I want to be remembered as a person who sub-60'd

Take care,

Roelof

Feb 13th 2004 at 12:43:46 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Greg: It's easy to explain. All three videos that are downloadable in Damien's video section show Sorin's player which replays all mouse movements and clicks of a minesweeper game played in reality. As that earlier version of the player was running much slower than a real game, the video length and the game time don't fit at all. But as those videos are really old-fashioned, please visit my homepage and check out the video section. There are lots of videos that were recorded using Camtasia and, therefore, don't have this time lag.

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Feb 12th 2004 at 11:07:53 PM
Name:  

Georgi

Best expert:  

60

Comments:  

Dennis,
I am also going to quit - just waiting for my first sub-60 - that's my goal from a long time.
I know I am close - my average 3bv/sec rised to about 2.30.
After I join the sub-minute club - that will be enough!

Feb 12th 2004 at 09:34:14 PM
Name:  

Greg Abrami

Best expert:  

83

Best intermediate:  

26

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I just had something wierd happen. My best int. time got changed to 27 when i finished one game with 27. Can anyone tell me why this would happen?

Also I found something wierd about the stephan bechtel's videos. For the expert 65sec it actually plays out in 80secs instead of 65. Same for the rest of the videos. Is there just something wrong with the file or download?

Feb 12th 2004 at 05:55:08 PM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Hey Dennis: I know how you feel. If you really want to stop, my advice is to do as I did: just remove the game from your PC altogether. I tried cutting down before, but I found that I would start up games every time I paused for some reason or other, many times even without realising it. Since I uninstalled the game from both my home and work PCs, I haven't played at all. Well, apart from this one time I followed a link to Lady Di's Minesweeper and started a game. Again, without realising it . As soon as I realised I was playing, I closed IE immediately.

Feb 12th 2004 at 05:24:26 PM
Name:  

Michael S. Repton

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Kirsten, 160 _is_ good, especially if you've only just started. This site has the top 200 players in the world... obviously you're not going to look good if you compare yourself to them! Still, I agree with Justin, knowing how far there is to go is a real incentive to improve. If you're only just beginning, I recommend the guides at http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/12024.html, especially the one by zarathustra47.

Feb 12th 2004 at 05:08:45 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

55

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1!!

Comments:  

Finally, after years and years of playing I finally got a 1 on beginner. I have it on recorder if anyone cares, it is not very exciting at all since it is a 1 3BV, but ****, ill take it. Woohoo

Feb 12th 2004 at 04:57:58 PM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

Dennis - I've pretty much stopped playing for now, but there's always late nights and red bull, or the holidays

I think it'd be a shame if you quit, but I suppose its good that your doing it just before you overtake me

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Feb 12th 2004 at 02:45:18 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

SAD NEWS: I think I'm going to quit Minesweeper!

Believe me, it's not because I really want to but I simply have to if I don't want to f*ck up my life totally! Lately I've found myself unable to study at all. Last semester I hardly studied either and had to read a LOT right before my exams but this semester is much tougher and I will never be able to pass my exams if I don't study a lot so since I'm not able to cut down I guess I'll have to quit totally. At least I got to get a sub-70 on expert and a sub-20 (actually way more than that) on int and those were my main goals. I've always wanted to go sub-60 on expert too because that's less than a minute but I doubt that'll ever happen now that I'm hopefully quitting. The only problem is that I'm addicted so I might not be able to quit! I really hope I can be strong though because I'm alread way behind with my studies and have quite a bit of catching-up to do.

No matter what I'll keep reading the posts in here and probably post once in a while too... (You know me... I keep posting and posting with nothing much to say! )

Good luck to all of you and happy sweeping!

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Feb 12th 2004 at 12:14:29 PM
Name:  

Justin

Comments:  

Kristen, I think we all had that though when we first found this site. The first time I broke 100 on expert, I found this site and was partially demoralized to find that people could finish it in half my time. But then this site becomes a source of motivation , since you know that there are people out there who are faster than you.

Feb 12th 2004 at 11:17:11 AM
Name:  

kirsten michels

Best expert:  

160

Best intermediate:  

45

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Finally found a website that makes some sense. But could i have some info please? I've only recently started playing minesweeper, and my best on expert is 160. How do you guys get the scores you do, just practice. All my friends thought 160 was good, and so did I until I found this site! Help!

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Feb 12th 2004 at 10:31:47 AM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

I too prefer flagging on int. I got a 13 last week where I flagged 14 mines, of course it doesn't beat my 12 from last year - on that 12 I flagged 20 mines.
Can't seem to go faster than 46 on expert these days, the lower the 3BV the slower I am. I can get 51's on 191 3BV though - strange.

Good luck everybody - Lanyjé

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Feb 12th 2004 at 09:58:16 AM
Name:  

Dave Morgan

Comments:  

HERESY!

Personally, I much prefer flagging for int (best times 15 flagging, 18 NF), though often some of my fastest games I haven't flagged many mines, I know that some them wouldn't have been anywhere near as fast without flagging

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Feb 12th 2004 at 08:56:06 AM
Name:  

Justin

Comments:  

oops.. I clicked on the Post entry button again on accident when it had already registered my first click. You'd think I'd have the clicking technique down by now...

Feb 12th 2004 at 08:53:33 AM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

81

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Yes, deffinitely NF is the way to go for intermediate. I NF for expert as well, and I wonder whether it would be faster to flag and double-click. It just feels so d*mn awkward!

Feb 12th 2004 at 08:53:29 AM
Name:  

Justin

Best expert:  

81

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Yes, deffinitely NF is the way to go for intermediate. I NF for expert as well, and I wonder whether it would be faster to flag and double-click. It just feels so d*mn awkward!

Feb 12th 2004 at 08:02:34 AM
Name:  

Case

Comments:  

whooooops haha, i meant 3x3, 9 squares total sorry heh

Feb 12th 2004 at 06:42:28 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Michael, have you tried NF on int? That's what I started doing when I was stuck at 28! Good luck!

Feb 12th 2004 at 05:41:09 AM
Name:  

Michael S. Repton

Best expert:  

82 --> 78

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

That total of 100 moves tantalisingly closer... I think I need to improve my Int. time but I just don't know how, I've always sucked at that level.



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