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Jan 9th 2004 at 03:35:29 AM |
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David Barry |
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Dion, I think you're the youngest sub-50'er as well... I'm not quite sure how the years work in NSW, are you 15 or 16? Either way, you've got lots of playing ahead of you. Just don't do what I did and get distracted by unimportant things like schoolwork and uni and stuff. ![]() |
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Jan 9th 2004 at 01:07:08 AM |
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Name: |
Dion Tiu |
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Hello David ![]() Ive been playing minesweeper for about 3 years, but only recently submitted my scores in. I live in Sydney going onto year 11 in high school. I never dreamt i would surpuss you or even manage to get into the top 10 ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 10:20:31 PM |
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Name: |
Matthew Ackerman |
Best expert: |
64 -> 63 |
Best intermediate: |
12 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
Drought over, I should be able to get a decent AR. |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 08:37:29 PM |
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Name: |
Wilson Tran |
Best expert: |
88 |
Best intermediate: |
29 |
Best beginner: |
5 |
Comments: |
i guess i'm just average around here, lol ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 10:40:42 AM |
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Name: |
Grzegorz |
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Way to go Elmar. |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 06:55:28 AM |
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Name: |
Elmar |
Best expert: |
57x2 |
Comments: |
Great, just tied my expert record of 57 after getting an 58 half an hour earlier. (3bv 167 and 152) and a 60 yesterday (3bv 147). This is not fair..... ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 05:25:06 AM |
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Name: |
Zhang Hong |
Best expert: |
80 -> 77 |
Best intermediate: |
24 |
Best beginner: |
4->3 |
Comments: |
This is my new record today! ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 05:03:12 AM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Comments: |
David, I read your bio and noticed that we have equal date of birth (I was born 25/04/1984 too). It's great coincidence. ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 02:39:13 AM |
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Name: |
David Barry |
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Dion, I only just noticed in Georgi's best ever list that you're from Australia.... How long have you been around? I'm in Brisbane, studying maths and physics at UQ. You? It's good to see two Aussies in the top 13 expert players. We now join the US and Denmark in that category. Congrats on being the first known sub-50'er from Australia. ![]() |
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Jan 8th 2004 at 12:55:24 AM |
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Name: |
Marc Schouten |
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> How many times have you already uninstalled minesweeper Marc ? Only once, before my one-year or so break 4-5 years ago. I think this time it's for good, because I feel it's been enough. It's a bit weird not having something to do at all times when behind the computer though ![]() By the way: Windows 2000 professional sure makes it hard to uninstall... Almost as if Microsoft *wants* us to play ![]() |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 11:56:56 PM |
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Name: |
Newbie :) |
Best expert: |
1 |
Best intermediate: |
1 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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all above my records are reached using notepad.exe --> by editing winmine.ini file a.k.a cheating !! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 02:48:54 PM |
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Name: |
Manu |
Comments: |
How many times have you already uninstalled minesweeper Marc ? ![]() |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 09:18:47 AM |
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Name: |
Marc Schouten |
Comments: |
My goals for this year: None. I uninstalled Minesweeper. |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 08:47:02 AM |
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Name: |
Gustaf Forsman |
Best expert: |
76 |
Best intermediate: |
24 |
Best beginner: |
4 --> 2 |
Comments: |
WOHO! Only 3 seconds to sub-99 I am gonna be there soon ![]() |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 08:34:37 AM |
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Name: |
Zhang Hong |
Best expert: |
80 |
Best intermediate: |
24 |
Best beginner: |
4 |
Comments: |
I'm a 16-year-old boy from China. I'm fond of minesweeper. Half an year ago, my record was 7-42-125. I've got a good progress in the past six months and i'll make it better in 2004. my new goal: 2-15-60 |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 06:57:56 AM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Best expert: |
58 -> 57 |
Best intermediate: |
16 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My 2004 goals are 1-14-52 (min.) and 1-13-49 (max.). Screenshot: http://gammel.pisem.net/57c.png Video (!recorded from Minesweeper Player!) http://gammel.pisem.net/video/57.avi http://gammel.pisem.net/57.txt |
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Jan 7th 2004 at 01:02:59 AM |
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Name: |
Dion |
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New goals this year: 46-12-1 ![]() It'll take alot of hard work and plenty of luck |
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Jan 6th 2004 at 02:05:36 PM |
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Name: |
Stephen Arnason |
Best expert: |
73 seconds |
Best intermediate: |
20 --> 19 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
just got my first sub-20 on a 37 3bv board, roughly 2 3bv/s. oh yeah! |
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Jan 6th 2004 at 01:37:53 AM |
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Name: |
Matthew Ackerman |
Best expert: |
64 |
Best intermediate: |
12 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
I'm back. first minesweeper in months, couples of times in the 70s the old intellimouse is dusted off, watch out |
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Jan 5th 2004 at 09:47:30 PM |
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Name: |
Curtis |
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Again today I released a slight revision - I didn't realise the program's boards repeated themselves so often. Now the program generates a new series of "random" numbers after every board. I think now it will be much harder to find duplicate boards. The problem is that computers can't create true random numbers - thus, eventually you'll begin to see a breakdown in randomisation. I think I'll do some research in the generation of random numbers, to try to make the boards of my program as random as possible. You don't have to get this revision unless you want to check out the new possible boards. As for the faking of videos, I think understand what you mean. There are small differences between my version and the Windows version (some can be seen in Martin's videos). I have also added in a few unnoticeable differences that would hopefully catch fakes. (Also, like I said before, the timer is slightly slower in my version, so you could probably catch fakes by looking at the timer.) What if I changed something like the cursor - would that be good protection? (Although bitmaps and stuff could probably be changed around in a video anyway.) I think Sorin's idea for a recorder is a good one and I will look into it. As for Manu's "perfect" minesweeper game, I will continue to improve this program but I'm not sure if it will ever replace the original Minesweeper, especially for the entire community. Things would really have to be perfect if a program would be used "competitively". (Like the timer should be the same as the original's timer.) Although a "cheat-proof" minesweeper does sound nice... By the way, I'm thinking of moving the 3BV/click counter into another window, and adding extra stats for the next version. |
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Jan 5th 2004 at 05:29:24 PM |
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Name: |
Matthew |
Best expert: |
230 |
Best intermediate: |
47 |
Best beginner: |
9 |
Comments: |
I just discovered this two days ago and decided I ought to take up the challenge of meeting some of the sickening times on here. I'm having a ton of trouble on expert and beginner but my time is starting to come down a good bit on intermediate. But I do have a question: what's everyone's completion rates? Like, I'm finishing only 1/7 games on intermediate and 1/25(or worse) on expert. |
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Jan 5th 2004 at 10:44:38 AM |
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Name: |
Dan |
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Active Ranking has been updated. Good luck in the new Active Ranking year. |
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Jan 5th 2004 at 09:38:56 AM |
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Name: |
Grzegorz |
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Andrew: I think your intermediate is preety good if you are playing only a month. ![]() |
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Jan 5th 2004 at 09:17:01 AM |
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Name: |
Andrew |
Best expert: |
163 |
Best intermediate: |
41 |
Best beginner: |
5 |
Comments: |
I know these scores arnt the best but i have only been playing the game for about a month... ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 06:44:26 PM |
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Name: |
Gustaf |
Best expert: |
79 --> 76 |
Best intermediate: |
25 |
Best beginner: |
4 |
Comments: |
Weeeeeeeeeee!! I made 76 on expert two times today. It's the luckiest day of my life! ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 04:03:54 PM |
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Name: |
James |
Best expert: |
74 |
Best intermediate: |
20 |
Comments: |
Hy everyone, I have been reading this new discusion with much interest. Of course my opinion is somewhat devalued by the fact that I have basically stoped playing. However, I plan on someday regaining my form and eventually having a combined timed of sub 60, and I would like to do that on the fairest and most credible version of our game. If I were thouroughly impresed by such a version I would certainly be willing to pay for it. Furthermore, I think that a cheet-proof game would increase the amount of people who play the game at a serious level. Anyway, thats how I feel about it. Cheers. |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 03:16:31 PM |
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Name: |
Lance |
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ok, so I haven't been so brief. anyway I went back to the old guestbook and saw what my goals REALLY were, and what my scores REALLY were, so my goals as of 1-4-03 were (another)1-12-51, and my old scores were 1-16-58. No change in my 2004 goals though! In 2003, I lopped 5 seconds off of my total score. It'd be nice to do that again! ![]() Lance |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 02:03:00 PM |
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Name: |
Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: |
56 |
Best intermediate: |
13 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
BTW, in my last post, it should have read "from 1-15-58" instead of "from 1-15-5 ![]() ![]() Lance |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 01:59:42 PM |
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Name: |
Lance Votroubek |
Best expert: |
56 |
Best intermediate: |
13 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
Hey everyone, very interesting and (hopefully) beneficial conversation going on here, so I'll keep my interruption brief: sorry about how late the AR is this period. I have not been near a computer that allows me to check email since new years eve, and had little time to do so anyway. However, I have just finished it and sent it to Dan, so when he gets a chance, it will be posted. My resolution for the new year is to be more timely with the updates ![]() ![]() Also, my 2003 goals were (another)1-12-52 (from 1-15-5 ![]() ![]() Happy sweeping, all! Lance |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 01:14:12 PM |
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Name: |
Detrusor |
Best expert: |
75 |
Best intermediate: |
22 |
Best beginner: |
3 |
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Even if you (Sorin or Curtis) make a software in what 99.9 % are not fakes, if Curtis' actual version stays online, there will be big danger of fakes... I'm sure the best way is to change graphic to be a little bit different from the original version... But what is important is to take OFFline the current version ! |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 12:34:07 PM |
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Name: |
Stevan Gvozdenovic |
Best expert: |
48 |
Best intermediate: |
12 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
Sent. |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 12:22:47 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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Stevan, if you have a recording of the game then send it to me ![]() What I hope for is a game that: - Generates completely random boards - Is counting "real" time - Has a built-in recorder so that it's very hard/impossible to fake a recording It must not be too different from the original minesweeper, and it it is only a must to get your scores approved using this program if your best score is e.g. sub60, because we can't shout out all other players than the ones using the new program, but I'm sure almost anyone that has a sub60 is willing to get the new program because he/she is probably already spending a lot of time on minesweeper ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 11:47:19 AM |
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Name: |
Stevan |
Best expert: |
48 |
Best intermediate: |
12 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
Missed est. 45 finished 77% Grrrr ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 11:27:07 AM |
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Name: |
Lasse Nyholm |
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Seems to me we're moving towards two different programs, that should have two different appearances - a minesweeper training simulator (like Curtis') where you can choose which boards to play, and play them again, and make specific board layouts and know the board's stats and things before you make the first click, and then an official game, where every board is picked randomly and recorded within the game and can't be faked. In my opinion this should be two different programs, so there's no doubt how the score has been achieved or in which program. That's what I hope for - see you - Lanyjé |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 11:03:25 AM |
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Name: |
Manu |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 08:38:18 AM |
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Name: |
Sorin |
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Since we (well..Curtis actually) are making the program a recording program is easy to implement, much like I did with my counter. Each click and mouse movement could be recorded in a file and then played back, thus eliminating camtasia or other visual methods of recording which can be faked. Using a good coding system we can be 99.9% sure the videos we are gettting are not fakes. Of course, there is the posibility of breaking any code, but those who are experts at this are not usually minesweeper addicts ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 08:32:37 AM |
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Name: |
Dan |
Comments: |
I have not received the Active Ranking list from Lance. |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 08:28:42 AM |
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Name: |
Steffen |
Best expert: |
51 |
Best intermediate: |
8 (12) |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
Hi huys! First of all : Happy new year to all of you! ![]() I didnt see Curtis´ program, but i like the idea of a new sure minesweeper and i would also reset my scores for a new good version. It would be a pity if even exp-games could now be "faked" easier than int before... ![]() |
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Jan 4th 2004 at 07:49:25 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
Comments: |
Dan/Lance, what about the AR update? ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 02:53:15 PM |
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Name: |
Georgi |
Comments: |
... and given the '3BV Search' option the minimum board 3BV values are 1-24-104 for B-I-E and the maximum values are 54-123-267. Of course those values can be changed by clicking on mine on the first click ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 02:39:27 PM |
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Name: |
Georgi |
Comments: |
Curtis clone has cycling too ![]() Beg: 778152 boards Int: 193304 boards Exp: 75758 boards There is some logic ... Number of mines multiplied by cycle lenght has almost the same result. Maybe in the rule must be included board sizes in some way - think about that ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 12:09:22 PM |
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Name: |
Manu |
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No problem Martin, thing is Curtis should have thought of that BEFORE to put the program on the net ! But if he accepts to create the "perfect minesweeper" I'll forgive his BIG mistake ! ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 11:03:57 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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I hope I haven't offended anyone, but this was exactly what I was trying to show ![]() ![]() So Curtis, if you could just make a little almost invisible dot somewhere or the timer started at 0 or something like that, so it was clear to see that your version was being used ![]() With that said, it's a great program, and I hope nobody else will make videos like the ones I have made now. At least I won't ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 09:00:53 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
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There are really only little signs in Martin's 37 video that give hints to be not a "normal" game. This is, I totally agree with Manu, not good as our standard videos lose their value. Curtis, as perfect as your program is, it would probably be better if you wouldn't copy the standard color style. Something (unchangable) should look different so that games (and videos) of your program can be easily detected! In my eyes, that would be better for the whole community. |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 08:09:16 AM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Best expert: |
58 |
Best intermediate: |
17 -> 16 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
This is my third improvement during last week. 3BV = 32. ![]() Video - http://gammel.pisem.net/video/16.avi Screenshot - http://gammel.pisem.net/16.png |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 08:09:02 AM |
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Name: |
Manu |
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It's really time to react, guys... ![]() ![]() I'd love that people like Curtis, Sorin, Eduardo, etc... work together to make "THE PERFECT MINESWEEPER GAME". A version with all the options that we can imagine, but that would keep the "spirit of the game" ( Not sure it is good english... ?? ) If such a version was made, with no possibility to cheat or to fake videos from it, I would agree to erase my scores, and to get them again with that new version. I think that every honest player would accept to do it. It would avoid people like Steffen to be listed with a 8 or 9 on inter which doesn't show his real abilities ( Sorry Steffen but I still didn't accept it as you can see... even if you're not the only one in that case ). I think that even the very best players would agree : If I was Lasse I would be upset to see the video posted just below and would like to give a 100% credibility to my own videos. Unfortunately, there's nothing more I can do that just giving my opinion in detail about what a perfect minesweeper would be, as I have no knoledge at all in programming. To people that at good in programming : Do you think that what I want is just a dream, or is it just a question of time ??? ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 07:58:59 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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The video wasn't the board that changed 3BV, I'll send that board to you. I've made a 37 on the expert board now, and I'm pretty sure that Lasse or Damien or someone like that could make a 25 on it ![]() The 3BV is 103 btw. I'll send the expert board too... www.gymks.dk/lort/db37.avi |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 07:38:43 AM |
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Name: |
Curtis Bright |
Comments: |
Sorry about that, I kind of made a dumb mistake... I just fixed it, and changed the version to 0.311. The window wouldn't resize properly for people who have smaller screen resolutions, such as 800x600. Whoops! Download the program again and see if it works now. For the people who say the program shuts down with a "file is missing" error when you try to use certain advanced options, you must download both these files and unzip them into your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory: http://www.geocities.com/brightprojects/comdlg32.zip http://www.geocities.com/brightprojects/picclp32.zip Martin: I'll look into what you're saying. Was that video of the board that was changing? 41 seconds on Expert! I'll make a board file of that. |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 06:55:41 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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Mine play fine one Windows XP Pro. I tried to load the boards again and start exactly the same place each time, but still it sometimes come up with a board that is a little different. www.gymks.dk/lort/db41.avi ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 04:05:15 AM |
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Name: |
Georgi |
Comments: |
Hi everyone ![]() Curtis I have the same problem as Manu ... I use XP-Pro |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 03:27:34 AM |
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Name: |
Dave Morgan |
Comments: |
I have the same problem as Manu.. I'm running winXP (home edition) by the way |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 02:36:39 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
Best expert: |
51 (Curtis' version) |
Best intermediate: |
11 (Curtis' version, not on DB) |
Best beginner: |
0.1 (Curtis' version) |
Comments: |
Got a 51 with a searched 3BV 104 expert board on Curtis' version. I just wanted to find out whether I'm at least able to break my "normal" record of 55 when I get a board with a really nice 3BV. In int, I got an 11 in my second game. @Curtis: I think the program shouldn't accept 3BV-searched boards for the record lists. About additional features: I would be very pleased if the click counter included all features of Sorin's player. |
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Jan 3rd 2004 at 01:23:51 AM |
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Name: |
Manu |
Comments: |
Curtis : Yes, with all boards. Screenshots sent. |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 09:57:26 PM |
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Name: |
Kaenvit Vongchusiri |
Best expert: |
88 |
Best intermediate: |
26 |
Best beginner: |
3 |
Comments: |
I am very happy to finally find this website. I looked in Yahoo for this kind of web about 3 years ago and the web I found that time suggested that the records would not be anymore updated. I was sad and disappointed. Today, I finally found two active minesweeper webs through Wikipedia. The one of them that I prefer is this website. I am very happy. I never heard about many strategies recommended here that could have improved my skill so much. Thank you very much. I will try my best to improve myself. I have a comment about the ranking. I think the beginner time should not be a part of the calculation. Really, it's mainly based on luck. However, for the second thought, it's ok too in the way that life is also partially dependent of luck. I don't know what I am talking about now. Never mind me ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 05:39:03 PM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
Best intermediate: |
6,8 |
Best beginner: |
0,1 |
Comments: |
Curtis, what a great game! ...as you can see from my scores! ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 04:17:01 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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Curtis, I'm quite sure I started the same place each time. I'll try to take some screenshots and see what exactly is happening... Maybe it's just me ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 02:51:15 PM |
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Name: |
Curtis Bright |
Comments: |
Thanks everyone for your comments! Stephan: The program will accept high scores on boards found with the 3BV search, but not on edited or loaded boards. I think I'll add in the option to only display 3BV after a game for the next version. And you should download comdlg32.zip and picclp32.zip from my website and unzip the files in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ directory. You should be able to use the features then. Martin: If your first click is on a mine, the program moves the mine to another random square, and thus the 3BV changes. About faking videos... yeah, people probably could do it. But I think people could probably get around most ways to prevent faking. And if someone really wants to fake a video, there are other ways it could be done. Manu: Does it do this for all board sizes? Not sure why that is happening. If you could provide a screenshot, it might be helpful. By the way, I think the timer in my version is a bit slower than the original's. I guess I could speed it a bit up and try to get them the same. |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 11:35:08 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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www.gymks.dk/lort/db8.avi ![]() ![]() Curtis, if you could make something that clearly showed that your programs was used when one played it would be great. I don't think it's very hard to remove the "Extras" button from the video ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 07:08:08 AM |
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Name: |
Manu |
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Hi Curtis ! I've downloaded your program, but It doesn't work on my PC : The field of mine is cut in the middle, and I cannot see the lower section !!!???!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 05:32:04 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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I tried your program Curtis. Very nice. But I think I found a bug. I sat down and search after 3BV on int and found a 24 3BV board. Then I saved it, but it's not exactly the same board everytime I load it. The 3BV varies from 22 to about 30. There's actually more int boards with 30 3BV than I would have thought. Anyway, I loaded the board I have saved and managed to get a 10 on it when it was 26 3BV... This does count, right? ![]() |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 04:38:18 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan Bechtel |
Comments: |
Hey Curtis, I like it. It seems to be good. At least with this program I was able to do three 1's on 8x8 grid (3BV 1, 1, and 2) ![]() I would prefer an option that you choose whether to display the 3BV before or after a game. I don't like the idea of playing only those boards of which I know before playing them what 3BV I have to expect. I used Windows NT at work, and there, several options (e.g. Save Board) didn't work and caused the program to stop immediately due to "Run Time Error 339" (missing OCX component). |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 03:26:46 AM |
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Curtis Bright |
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If anyone is interested, I've made my own version of Minesweeper and I just released version 0.31. I would really like to here your comments on it - it seems you guys are probably the most dedicated Minesweeper players in the world. Basically, it has every option the original has, plus several other features that I've added in. It can be found at my website: http://www.geocities.com/brightprojects/minesweeper/minesweeper.html Here's the complete list of features: -Everything the original offers and more! -Flexible grid: supports sizes 1x1 to 30x30 -Mines can range from 0 to 95% of the board -Option to save boards to be played over again -Has a built-in board editor so you can place the mines anywhere you want -"Cheating" option that shows the location of the mines -Option for beginners to allow game to continue after a mine has been hit -Saves the best score for each level (will only save if you haven't cheated) -Has three built-in skins so you can choose your favourite: Win 98, Win 95, or Black & White -You can create your own skins in an easily-editable bitmap, and then load it into minesweeper and play with it! -Option to show zeros instead of blanks -Option to record time to tenths -Option to record number of clicks (left, middle, and right) -Option to only count useful clicks (e.g. clicks that are on unopened squares) -Can determine a board's 3BV (Bechtel's Board Benchmark Value). This is the absolute minimum number of clicks a board can be cleared in (without flagging) [I guess I don't need to tell you guys that! ![]() -Can search through boards to find ones with a certain 3BV so you don't have to -Fixes some minor bugs found in Microsoft's version (see webpage) I'm interested in hearing thoughts anyone has on it, as well as any bugs if you find any. If you think there are other useful options that could be included, let me know. Hopefully it will work on everyone's system. Also, to those who have some skinning talent, feel free to download the skin files on my webpage and edit them to create your own skin. E-mail it to me and I'll put it up on my webpage. I played around and made a skin or two, but I'm no artist. Also, on my webpage I have a listing of glitches in Microsoft Minesweeper and I wrote up a little article about the "1-second theory" (why Minesweeper doesn't always finish the game on 1-second boards). I also found out that when your first click is on a mine, it cannot be moved into the right-most column or the bottom-most row. Although maybe you guys already know all that... |
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Jan 2nd 2004 at 01:42:43 AM |
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Stephan |
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Due to some illness I couldn't really drink much alcohol in silvester night, so I wasn't tired at all yesterday. I also have my first sub-60 in 2004 as my 2nd finished game in 2004 was a 58 ![]() |
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Jan 1st 2004 at 04:26:53 PM |
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Martin Toft Madsen |
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Appearently I am playing better than I thought I would, so my first game in 2004 was also the sub60 with the best 3BV/sec ratio I have done so far: 59.11 sec - 158 3BV - 2.72 3BV/sec ![]() |
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Jan 1st 2004 at 02:51:15 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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Nice Stephan. And happy New Year again. I got so much champagne last night I'm still feeling a little dizzy ![]() My first game will probably be around twice as long as yours, but luckily I already got my AR scores in place ![]() Happy sweeping! |
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Jan 1st 2004 at 12:49:48 PM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
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Happy new year to everyone! 2003 ended nice as I could finish the 1000th nf expert game since I started to put my scores into an excel sheet. The new year started nice as my first finished expert game was a 61! |
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Dec 31st 2003 at 04:39:12 PM |
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Name: |
Active Ranking |
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**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/ 3pm EST **** 2 days left in the 2003 Active Ranking season... all stats will reset for the new year. |
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Dec 31st 2003 at 09:28:30 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan Tsapatoris |
Best expert: |
238 |
Best intermediate: |
84 |
Best beginner: |
12 |
Comments: |
Well, I'm just starting out with minesweeper as well as you can see from my scores, but I have a question for you experts out there? Do you have any speed secrets to cut down on your times? do you mark the mines with flags still or do you just keep track of them in your mind? my computer won't download the videos, but I'm curious since I can't seem to break 238 on expert... |
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Dec 31st 2003 at 02:29:22 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
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Really nice stats Lasse. I finished exactly 750 exp games since I started again to play regularly in September 2001... I would recommend you to play the 3.1 version even if you're using XP, as I think that this version has better boards in average (just a personal thought, not empirically proved). |
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Dec 31st 2003 at 01:01:40 AM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
Best expert: |
55 |
Best intermediate: |
13 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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@Lasse: What can I say, nice stats! You have more sub50s than I have finished games in total this year ![]() Anyway, good luck with that sub40, I'm sure you can do it with a bit more luck ![]() @Matt: Sign up on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minesweeper-addicts/ and there will be a program in the files section that can count 3BV and exact time ![]() And to everyone: Happy New Year and may you keep up the sweeping in 2004!!! ![]() |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 10:23:37 PM |
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Name: |
Matttttt |
Best expert: |
84 |
Best intermediate: |
25 |
Best beginner: |
3 |
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I have a question for you guys and girls. What version of minesweeper do you use? I notice that you have decimal numbers of seconds. I've never seen a window version that had decimal numbers. Also is there a version that comes with 3BV? Where can I download one of the sleak new models? Thanks! You're great! Keep it real |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 09:05:21 PM |
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Name: |
Lasse Nyholm |
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I've just finished my last minesweeper-session of the year and thought I would take a look of the year that passed. To make it relevant for this forum I'll stick to the things that concern the game. Best expert: 42, best int: 12, best beg: 2 Sub-60s: 5043 of them 606 sub-50s Alltime stats: 15346 sub-60s - of them 1284 sub-50s A couple of weeks ago I had two chances for equaling my exp-record within 15 minutes, both times I had missed a square somewhere, and the games ended in 44 and 45, instead of 41-42, grrr. Earlier this year I missed a 39 on the last click, but that was before I switched to XP, since then a 43 has been my best game. Hopefully the new year will bring me a new expert-record, and hopefully it'll be a sub-40. Good luck to all of you - and happy new year! - Lanyjé |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 03:00:14 PM |
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Name: |
matthew |
Best expert: |
99 |
Best intermediate: |
30 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
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woo hoo my first sub 100 on expert. dont know how im going to lower my times but ill give it a go happy new year |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 11:59:17 AM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Best expert: |
58 |
Best intermediate: |
17 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
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Manu, my 58 sec video is not realtime (it's recorded from minesweeper player), that's why there is no congratulation box in the end. I produced screenshot with best ever times on my computer: http://gammel.pisem.net/fastest.png - (RoGen is my nick name, in some cases my nick name is RoGa - short version of my real name) |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 10:43:00 AM |
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Name: |
Manu |
Best expert: |
53 |
Best intermediate: |
12 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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Roman Gammel : Congrats for your improvements ! Why can't we see the congratulations box at the end of your 58-vid ??? Congrats Martin for your 13 ![]() ![]() I played 10 int-games today, just to see what everage I could get : I finished all 10 games between 20 ( ![]() |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 06:30:57 AM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
Best expert: |
73 |
Best intermediate: |
14 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
Congrats to Martin, Roman and XF! Martin, now I'll HAVE to play some more int! ![]() ![]() ![]() Last night I messed up at 65 seconds with not many squares to go so it would have been a sub-70 for sure... I'm still wondering when I'll get that sub-70 after all the missed chances I've had!!! ![]() |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 04:56:07 AM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Best expert: |
59 -> 58 |
Best intermediate: |
17 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
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Yeahhhhh!!! I can't believe. Only 15 hours ago I had my first sub60, now I have new best expert time - 58!!!! It seems impossible. (http://gammel.pisem.net/58.png - screenshot http://gammel.pisem.net/58c.png - screenshot with counter http://gammel.pisem.net/video/58.avi - video (recorded from minesweeper player) and also http://gammel.pisem.net/58.txt) Congratulatios Martin, such best intermediate seems unreachable for me. To Dennis: there is only russian version of my website, I'll try to make an english one as soon as possible. |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 04:35:04 AM |
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Name: |
Steffen Stachna |
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Congrats Martin, on that board i also got a 13 on, when i was playin´ int... |
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Dec 30th 2003 at 02:43:00 AM |
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Name: |
Andrew "Seizurebleak" W. |
Best expert: |
N/A |
Best intermediate: |
309 |
Best beginner: |
19 |
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First off, I JUST got into minesweeper (I'm a novice as you can see by my times), and I'd like to say your site RULES. Those videos just about made me fall over. I can't believe how fast people can do that! I'd also like to disagree with the 2 preceding comments. I hated minesweeper until I actually learned how it worked. It's a great game to play when your doing something else in Windows, and don't want to play a fullscreen game that requires constant attention. Thanks for all the great tips and info on the game -Seizurebleak |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 06:14:37 PM |
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Name: |
FG |
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I agree with gabbers, it is so boring!! |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 06:10:57 PM |
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Name: |
gabbers |
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Minesweeper is soooooo boring. It sucks and is way to boring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 05:48:55 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
Best expert: |
55 |
Best intermediate: |
15 -> 13 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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13.94 sec - 40 3BV - 3.09 3BV/sec ![]() ![]() **** it feels good. Over 6 months since my last record on int ![]() Well, it's all up to you now Dennis ![]() Guess I'm the Danish NF recordholder on all three levels again (shared on beg of course) ![]() www.gymks.dk/lort/mtm13.png www.gymks.dk/lort/mtm13_with_counter.png www.gymks.dk/lort/mtm13sek(30dec03)(intermediate).txt ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 05:18:10 PM |
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Name: |
XF (aka Francesco Castellana) |
Best expert: |
68 -> 67 |
Best intermediate: |
19 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
One second less... I'm getting closer to Daniele again... ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 04:35:55 PM |
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Name: |
mas |
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hello everybody! i am minesweeperlover to... ![]() this evening i tried playing on time... uf. you people are cool.. happy holidays!!!!! mas |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 03:46:16 PM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
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@Jihad: As I understand your post you're looking for a place to download the 3bv counter.... If so then go to www.groups.yahoo.com and check out the group called Minesweeper-addicts It's in the files section somewhere ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 01:03:03 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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And of course congratulations Roman and good luck with the exam ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 01:01:21 PM |
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Name: |
Martin Toft Madsen |
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Just got my 10th sub60: 57.48 sec - 147 3BV - 2.60 3BV/sec ![]() 55x1, 56x1, 57x3, 58x1, 59x4 ![]() @Jihad: http://stephan-bechtel.de/3bv.htm @Dennis: Den er sĺ plat at den er sjov ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 12:50:24 PM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
Best expert: |
73 |
Best intermediate: |
14 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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This one is going to be in Danish... ![]() Det er fedt at se endnu en spiller komme under minuttet pĺ ekspert. Det er jo som at lćse en god 'Gammel Roman'!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() Way to go Roman Gammel! I envy your expert abilities!!! ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 12:11:19 PM |
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Name: |
Roman Gammel |
Best expert: |
60 -> 59 |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has happened. During last month I did 60 twice, so I'm happy, that 60 is not my limit. I have an exam tomorrow and today all my thoughts were about it, maybe that's why I played so fast. First sub60 - oh, it's great. I have only screenshot (see http://gammel.pisem.net/59.png). ![]() |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 11:17:21 AM |
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Name: |
David Morgan |
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wooohooo! got my 5th sub70 today (only just - 69.98 s) |
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Dec 29th 2003 at 05:05:41 AM |
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Name: |
Jihad |
Best expert: |
76 |
Best intermediate: |
23 |
Best beginner: |
2 |
Comments: |
ive seen you all talk about the 3bv-thingie.. could any kind soul give me a link to where i can download it |
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Dec 28th 2003 at 04:30:08 PM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
Best expert: |
73 |
Best intermediate: |
14 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
Comments: |
I just had a very weird int session.... I got two 29 3bv boards and a 30 3bv board but didn't recognize any of them!!! Strange! I think maybe that's because I started Minesweeper on 'expert' and then switched to int but I'm not sure... I didn't get to finish any of those nice board unfortunately! ![]() |
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Dec 28th 2003 at 11:33:50 AM |
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Name: |
Dave Morgan |
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Dennis - happens to me all the time, if only i could finish games as fast as they are estimated when I'm 1/2 to 2/3 or so through ![]() |
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Dec 28th 2003 at 11:31:04 AM |
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Name: |
Francesco from Florence, Italy |
Best expert: |
80 |
Best intermediate: |
27 |
Best beginner: |
4 |
Comments: |
Ciao!!! 80 is not so bad! What's up, World?! ![]() |
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Dec 28th 2003 at 11:16:21 AM |
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Name: |
Dennis Lütken |
Best expert: |
73 |
Best intermediate: |
14 |
Best beginner: |
1 |
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Dec 27th 2003 at 03:42:15 AM |
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Name: |
Dave Morgan |
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"To everyone: I don't know why there are no duplicates on expert. The disassembled code is a very big mess, but I think that randseed is reinitialized during the mine map creation. I used that trick in 1992 in a turbo pascal 3.0 program. " It seems strange that they'd do that on expert but not intermediate (which obviously they don't or there wouldnt be board cycles) Does any1 know if win3.0 had minesweeper and when 3.1 was released (3.0 was released in '90 i think), so that we can find out if Toli used the trick first or if microsoft did ![]() |
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Dec 27th 2003 at 02:57:35 AM |
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Name: |
Stephan |
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@Stephen: that 1-to-2-jump in older minesweeper versions is a well-known bug. As far as I know out of many discussions, there is no way to stop it. This means that, in order to get a 1 on 8x8, you have to get a low 3BV board, a nice opening with the first one or two clicks, AND have the luck that the timer doesn't jump immediately. This might explain why not more than about 30 persons have already reached that 1 on 8x8. Btw, please note that for the Active Ranking, only 8x8 scores are counted as well. So, that 2 already isn't bad. |
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Dec 26th 2003 at 04:13:36 PM |
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Name: |
Toli Cuturicu |
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To Mark Schouten: Damien Moore is unreachable. The addreass on hotmail cannot be used, since the mailbox seems to be full. I would very much like to email you and / or him in order to "talk" about minesweeper issues more directly. Yes, I would like to host my minesweeper if possible. I have some bugs to remove first (a program for internal use at my computer is something and a program distributed on the net is something else) About the time pausing (minimize clicking): I used to pause the timer this way, copy the board and analize it in difficult situations. Drawing a probability map (something like electronic orbitals) might be useful. To everyone: I don't know why there are no duplicates on expert. The disassembled code is a very big mess, but I think that randseed is reinitialized during the mine map creation. I used that trick in 1992 in a turbo pascal 3.0 program. |
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Dec 26th 2003 at 03:12:29 PM |
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Name: |
Stephen Arnason |
Best expert: |
73 |
Best intermediate: |
20 |
Best beginner: |
2 (1 on a 9x9 board) |
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@Stephan Bechtel or anyone else who might know... I have Windows XP which has minesweeper with beginner 9x9 board, and is not accepted in the records. However i downloaded both minesweeper for windows 3.1, 95, and 98, and there seems to be some sort of constant glitch with the timer. The glitch is that when you start a game, the timer almost immediately goes to 2 seconds, and is on 1 second for only about a tenth of a second. Thus it makes it extremely difficult to get a 2 or even a 3 because a 2 is essentially a 1 and well you get the idea. i was wondering if there was any way to fix this glitch or if this type of thing has ever been heard of. thanks |
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Dec 25th 2003 at 05:50:30 PM |
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Name: |
Ryan Mann |
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Hey guys, I haven't posted in a while, because I haven't been playing at all. Just casually playing, i think my best was a 67 these days. Just wanted to drop a line, and say merry Christmas, and of course pleasant sweeping. |
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