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Jul 7th 2003 at 03:27:46 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Wow, Robert... Very, very excellent!
I beat the world record on Cuboctahedron, subdivision 2, but I can't upload times in the demo version. You seriously got me thinking about picking up my addiction once again and purchasing your game.

Again, very excellent!

Jul 6th 2003 at 10:54:08 PM
Name:  

Robert Webb

Comments:  

I have just released a 3D version of Minesweeper, called (surprise surprise) "MineSweeper3D". Here's the site:

http://home.connexus.net.au/~robandfi/Mines3D/

It's not like other 3D Minesweepers I've seen, where a cube has 26 neighbours for example. It is more like a 2D version wrapped around a 3D model and it works very well. I've spent a long time making it really nice (most clones are so dull!). It keeps track of best-times for each board of course, but it also keeps track of world record times, and the site shows who holds the world records for each board.

I'd love to hear what people think!
Thanks,
Rob.

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Jul 6th 2003 at 09:40:27 PM
Name:  

Gareth

Best expert:  

80 or 78 (you tell me)

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

I am pretty angry at the moment. I had just recently starting playing minesweeper again after finishing my first semester of Uni (remember me James?), and was playing for a bit today when I finished what appeared to be an expert board in 78sec. The strange thing was that the congratulations new-record pop-up screen didn't appear (even though my previous best time was 80 sec). So I initially thought that somebody had been tampering with the high scores file, so I opened up the file menu to check.
It was at this point that I noticed that the difficulty setting was on custom!
What was strange was that the custom setting was exactly the same as expert (16x30, 99 mines).
What I'm wondering is: does this 78 count as a new expert record for me? Or do I have to get it on the actual expert setting?
(Unfortunately, I don't have a screenshot, because when I had finished looking at the custom settings, I clicked the OK button, unaware that the board resets when you do this)

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Jul 6th 2003 at 07:13:11 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

about sayre boards: i believe it is possible to sub60 on, and i will if it become some type of standard. i'd expect lasse to be able to get 52-55 on it.

Jul 6th 2003 at 07:12:18 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  


i played the sayre board for an hour today to check it out, and the only game i finished was a 234 3bv 85 second game.

the original idea of the top100 was to list all the sub100total players. but so many people have competed to qualify the two lists are no longer identical. when i get this site updated, i will maintain a beg, beg XP, int, expert, and top100 list, and i will be inviting georgi to maintain his sub100 list on this site. (sorry for the surprise georgi). this will not however be in the immediate few weeks of course, but something along this line will be coming. thanks georgi for your efforts over the last year.

Jul 6th 2003 at 06:22:12 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

I would be very opposed to playing a minesweeper board larger than expert. The expert board is the perfect size for my current mouse pointer speed. If the board became larger I would have to increase the speed to be able to reach all corners of the board and that is highly undesirable. I already have enough trouble finishing games... a faster mouse pointer would only lessen my accuracy further. I feel that the current size and density of the expert board is the sweet spot.

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Jul 6th 2003 at 05:23:43 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

I don't think Georgi's Ranking is as fake-proof as Damien's since he doesn't even require screenshots.
Plus Georgi accepts times achieved on the DB.

Jul 6th 2003 at 02:39:57 AM
Name:  

Ben

Best expert:  

53

Comments:  

Finished 2 Sayre boards: 102 and 113.
I like some of the ideas, but I can't help thinking that we should first find a way in which the current rankings are updated regularly... (isn't it possible to copy Georgi's ranking from the addicts-group to this site???)

Jul 5th 2003 at 11:17:37 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

59

Comments:  

Basically I would say that for those people that would go for a larger, higher density puzzle(which seems to me to incur so much more mardhship), lets select a number of mines for the largest board(24x30) that has a slightly increaesed density than expert. This simply seems like the next step from expert, only that we do not have the permission from the writers of the program. Aren't we the experts by now. I don't know, it just seems logical.

Jul 5th 2003 at 02:22:53 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active Ranking has been updated.

Chris Paradise was the world record holder on expert with a 51 several years ago when I started playing minesweeper.

Jul 5th 2003 at 11:19:39 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Who is Chris Paradise?

Jul 5th 2003 at 08:15:32 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

I wouldn't want the Sayre board to be part of the top100 ranking either. I think minesweeper is still about speed and not endurance. If you want a master board, it should have its own separate ranking. And I think it should be the same size as expert with more mines. That would include more complex patterns. (That's btw the only thing I like about 30x24x200++.) And it would still take a reasonable time to finsih.

Also I think the Active Ranking would be better without beginner times. I usually wait until deadline-friday and then play a few boards just to get a 3. That's just a waste of time and not a meassure skill.
But that would have to wait until next year anyway.

AR: 66x3-XX-X

Jul 5th 2003 at 07:37:56 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

I must say that I don't prefer a change of the current counting method. Nonetheless, I tried out the Sayre board - I finished a 120 (3BV 247) and lost a possible 107. By the
way, in my opinion, Lasse could quickly claim a 80-90 second record.
But I'd like to explain why I don't prefer this kind of playing: As non-flagger, I don't complete many games (maybe 10-15 expert games in one AR period). It's really hard a) to concentrate for nearly 2 minutes, b) not to misclick in that time and c) not to lose one's speed if one knows that one finishes maybe 1 game per hour. That is even bad for expert level and would be worse a lot for master level.
I don't really accept the reason that in a master level, the game is less based on luck. Mostly, you'll get several guessing situations in one game which naturally reduces the
probability of completing the board.

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Jul 5th 2003 at 07:10:55 AM
Name:  

David Barry

Comments:  

I have long wanted, at first for good reasons, and more recently for selfish reasons, that intermediate and beginner be mere tiebreakers when expert scores are level.

But if I look past my own ranking, I can accept that intermediate has a different playing style to expert, and there is no real reason to discriminate against it. Of course, one can raise board cycles here, so in my ideal world we have non-repeating intermediate boards.

I wouldn't want to see the Sayre board taken as official, for three main reasons.

1) If we accept intermediate times, then we may as well accept times across a variety of mine densities.

2) If we decide to use the Sayre board as a simple replacement for expert, what would be the point? If it has the same mine density, the playing style is the same (it just takes longer to finish games). If you believe that expert is the most important criterion for minesweeper rankings, surely you would want to increase the mine density of the "official" board to reflect the increased emphasis on sweeping, rather than speed? There has to be a balance between sweeping and speed, and I think intermediate and expert together strike a good balance.

3) Old rankings. I wouldn't want to see Chris Paradise consigned to a list of people who haven't swept the Sayre board. Damien, I request that you add Paradise to your rankings.

Beginner should not be taken as part of the official rankings. Especially not the Active Ranking. I don't sweep much anymore, but if I do, I don't want to waste time with beginner.

Jul 5th 2003 at 06:40:53 AM
Name:  

Oli

Comments:  

105s on the first try on a 235 3bv sayre board
It's fun to play but i don't think it makes a big difference to an expert board.

Jul 4th 2003 at 02:05:27 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

59

Comments:  

Well, I just finshed a jarad board. No seriously, I am glad that someone finally commented on the post I made. I like the idea of 24x30x149. Is this the exact same mine density as expert? I am lazy and dont feel like dividing anything right now. If so, i think we should raise it a bit. I dont care that people finish less than 10% or even 5% for that matter. This is the only way to acurrately measure who is best. i have been playing at 24x30x180, but I think that is too much seeing as I have not finished one yet. haven't been playing much. So I propose the Jarad board(ok Master or Genius if we must) of 24x30x159! Let me know what you think.

Jul 4th 2003 at 01:46:41 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

After a disappointing last AR period this one starts pretty good.
I just broke my 3bv/s-record and finally passed the 3 3bv/s-barrier.
71 seconds 3bv: 210
210/(71-1)=3!!!
Got it all on video and will put it on my site later.
For now I gotta keep playing!

Congrats Aapo. Is that a World Record?

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Jul 4th 2003 at 12:47:41 PM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Aapo:
I used standard theory of probability. I did assume you would click near another number and not in the middle of a bunch of unopened squares.

Jul 4th 2003 at 12:30:27 PM
Name:  

Yannig

Comments:  

I like tahat idea of the Sayre board, but I see one problem in it: Even on an expert board most people finish less than 10% of the boards they really started playing on and this would become even lower on a bigger board.......

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Jul 4th 2003 at 09:29:59 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

Are you using same calculation as I. I counted that if same guess would mean less mines in particular area it's possibility is lower. That really works. I did an expiriment. I started mine defuser version 0.5. It played severel thousands of games in a hour and couldn't complete 34 mines.

Jul 4th 2003 at 07:54:39 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Congratulations, Aapo!
According to my calculations, you had a 1 in 72576 chance of finishing that board. Not bad

Jul 4th 2003 at 05:33:35 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

New density record! 34 bombs on 8x8 board. Watch the video.

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/miinaharava/34B.avi

Jul 4th 2003 at 03:53:50 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

...just scored 14 on DB, but of course the board layout was more than familiar to me
I won't count that

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Jul 4th 2003 at 03:23:51 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

Master: 108

Comments:  

Just finished a Sayre-Board in 108secs. 3bv246
before that I got 130/3bv300; 125/3bv280; 113/3bv234; 120/3bv252
I tested the board for 3bvs for a few minutes.
3bv max: 320 x2
3bv min: 205
3bv avrg: 250-260

I think for a good board it's nice to have a small variation of 3bvs. a messure could be range devided by average (for quick testing).
so that's about .46 for the Sayre board compared to about .70 for expert (the lower the better)

I'm also in favour of putting more importance on expert and the second or third best time...


Jul 4th 2003 at 12:15:20 AM
Name:  

Chris Sayre

Best expert:  

67

Comments:  

(...continuing the previous post...)

Now to the topic of a new and greater challenge for the global sweeping community. Since the idea is to define something more difficult than Expert, we could call it the "Master" board. What should this Master board be like? To me, the obvious choice is to go straight to the largest board possible: 24 high by 30 wide. This is 50% larger than Expert, which suggests that there should also be 50% more mines. A mine density that is much lower would be too easy, while a much higher density would be too hard. I can think of reasons to propose 148 or 150 mines for the Master board, but my personal choice is 149. In addition to being very playable and maintaining the density of Expert, I like the coincidence that the total number of mines in Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert just happens to equal 149! For purposes of discussion, I will immodestly call my preferred 24x30x149 board the "Sayre" board. (Likewise, other proposed boards should be identified by the names of the people who suggest them). Thus far, I've finished a couple dozen Sayre boards, and my best yet is 109. Anything under 125 is good, and under 100 would be impressive.

If the global sweeping community decides that it does want the new challenge of a Master board, then there will have to be discussion and consensus on what the official Master board parameters will be. To kick off the discussion, I propose that the Sayre board be adopted as the official Master board. Once consensus is reached, a Master records list can be started on Damien's site to rank sweepers on this new competitive board.

Comments, anyone???

Jul 4th 2003 at 12:13:38 AM
Name:  

Chris Sayre

Best expert:  

67

Comments:  

@ Jarad: I'm glad to see someone raise the two related topics of the importance of Expert level and the desirability of an even more challenging board, but I'm a little surprised that no one has commented! For what it's worth, here are my thoughts. (I apologize in advance for a long post, but I hope it starts some good discussion.)

It is clear that Expert is a much better measure of sweeping skill than either Beginner (8x8) or Intermediate. For one thing, the mine density of Expert (a little over 20%) is significantly more difficult than that of the smaller boards (a little over 15%). For another, Expert demands that you sustain your sweeping speed for much longer than the other two. Finally, a larger board reduces the importance of luck. Let's face it, any competent sweeper can get the best possible score of 1 on beginner if they get a really great first click. On Expert, though, luck is outweighed by skill. Of course, some Expert boards are much easier than others (based on 3BV, for example), but there is no way to address this issue without writing a new version of Minesweeper.

These considerations have implications for the way players should be ranked (Damien, are you listening?). It would be a real improvement if rank were based on Expert scores first, using Intermediate scores as a tie-breaker and Beginner scores as a second tie-breaker. My preference, however, would be to use Expert scores exclusively. I suggest ranking sweepers by their three best Expert scores, with ties being broken by their fourth best, fifth best, etc. This ranking should replace the Top 100 as the accepted list of the world's fastest sweepers. The Top 100 list should be renamed the "Combined" list and be maintained along with the separate lists for Expert, Intermediate, and Beginner.

(continued on next post...sorry!)

Jul 3rd 2003 at 11:56:25 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

72 --> 71

Comments:  


Sub 70 is near...
These are my best times for Active Ranking: 2, 20, 71.
They also are my personal record...I did them all in this period!
It seems a good moment for records...

Jul 3rd 2003 at 04:10:34 PM
Name:  

ruanyi

Best expert:  

59(only 1 sub-60)

Comments:  

@Xiaohu Zhang:
le lie zhu he!!!

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Jul 3rd 2003 at 03:18:33 PM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

I do some calculation. I count the number of mines left and squares left. Then I count how many mines particular selection would mean in particular area. I also try to think what square would be better not to be mine when guessing. I don't know does this help.

Jul 3rd 2003 at 01:57:25 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

That was a serious question and not meant to criticize playing for denstity in general. Do you make some kind of probability calculations? Or do you simply do something else while playing? If I played for density I think I would go pretty fast. Simply to increase my chance of finishing a board by playing a high number of boards and not spend 4min on one try.

Jul 3rd 2003 at 12:46:28 PM
Name:  

Aapo

Comments:  

Well, I really don't think that playing minesweeper makes any sense no matter how you play it. Why are you Elmar playing so fast that you don't complete over 90 % of board? Sometimes you even hit a mine when it's surely isn't because playing so fast. It's just from what point of you you want to play minesweeper....

Jul 3rd 2003 at 10:39:02 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Aapo, what do you guys think about for ages when playing for density and it's obious you have to guess? And that's not just you.
I don't get it

AR: 63-17x3-X

Jul 3rd 2003 at 10:27:01 AM
Name:  

Aapo

Best expert:  

84

Best intermediate:  

21

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Ou shit! I just missed new density record on last square. 34 bombs on 8x8 board. Last guess was 1 out of four. Watch video although quite slow playing.

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/miinaharava/missed34B.avi

Jul 3rd 2003 at 05:36:37 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/4pm EDT ****

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Jul 3rd 2003 at 12:10:24 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Best expert:  

64.68 ---> 64.40

Comments:  

Last night I broke my expert by 0.28sec .... on a slower than my record board (+30 3bv)

http://www.geocities.com/joro100/64-3bv151.zip in Sorin's format

But not enough to have the popup window. Anyway, I feel satisfied

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Jul 2nd 2003 at 04:18:09 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

133 (I know, but I rarely ever play on expert!)

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

Daniel, these are my other times but I wouldn't put too much into that expert time if I were you as I only play it every few days for 5-10 minutes. Intermediate on the other hand I sometimes play for hours and hours and I love it! I hate having to guess and that happens too often on expert.

With a 23 on a 38 3bv board on intermediate, how low do you guys think I would be able to go on the expert board if I played seriously on that one??? I need a goal to motivate me, I think!

About a fourth board as suggested by someone: I think it would be a great idea to make a board somewhere between intermediate and expert and compete on that one as well.



And of course, CONGRATS Elmar and Xiaohu Zhang! Well done!

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Jul 1st 2003 at 10:45:35 PM
Name:  

Xiaohu Zhang

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Finally I break my record. I've made about 20 sub-60s, now it's the breakthrough, 58 -> 56. This is done with sore hands in just 20 minutes playing, after 2 hours of tennis and a fast supper from KFC. For screenshot, visit www.stanford.edu/~zhangxh/Winmine_records/

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Jul 1st 2003 at 09:20:38 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

59

Comments:  

It seems to me that the minesweeper community that I am familiar with has pretty much given up on beginner and intermediate for the most part. I understand that it is still counted in the overall ranking, but I think amongst the avide top 50 players, a person with a lower expert score, but a larger total score(beg+inter+adv) is perhaps regarded with higher esteem. This leads me to believe that there needs to be new variable in the "best Minesweeper" equation. The minesweeper "congress"(did this ever really happen) should come up with a new standard board that surpasses the challenges of expert. With set parameters at some given length and width and you guys figure out a set number of mines, and label this board with some label (genius?) level maybe. This board could easily spread over this community and anyone really into this silly game will eventually come across it. What do you think?

Jul 1st 2003 at 05:48:47 PM
Name:  

Lance Votroubek

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Using a cordless mouse is a BAD idea... I tested several different types, and there was a big lag between what your hand was doing with the mouse and when those movements were registered to the computer via the tranceiver. If you're dead-set on getting one, I suggest going to your local computer store (a big one would be best), and buying one and keeping the receipt, then taking it home and trying it out. You'll see what I mean, and then you can promptly return it to the store. Logitech optical mouses (with cord) are the best available. Many of them have the dreaded "twitch glitch", but any model you would buy new today will work it's way out of that glitch in a week, believe it or not. I bought one for my brother for his birthday and it twitched horribly, but works fine now (I'm using it as we speak), and my mouse on my computer, which is a couple years old, worked itself out of the twitch glitch, too. Anyway, food for thought. I strongly recommend the Logitech Optical Wheelmouse, with cord. Happy sweeping!

Lance

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Jul 1st 2003 at 07:09:04 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Aarhus is in Denmark., methought.

The stanza in my previous post is the first of "Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney.

I'm stuck on 6x 18 seconds but can't get past the 77seconds... yet. Came pretty close yesterday on a poor setup.

Out of interest, which logitech cordless optical mouse do people recommend? There are 2 on amazon.com Let's keep it simple, the blue or the black one? I was reading that the black (MX700 or something) is better but quite heavy so is it the blue one that's recommended?

Thanks

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Jul 1st 2003 at 06:49:33 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Congrats Dennis.
where are you from? your name sounds german. at least i know a guy called kevin lütken...

just got 3x 17s within 20minutes. not bad considering i only had 6 17s before today. 3bv 46,48,49.
also, 2x18,19 within the 20min before.
the 3bv of the 19 was 57 which is a new record for sub20. previous best was 55 also in 19secs.

AR 64-17-X

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Jul 1st 2003 at 06:05:27 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Some day I will go to Aarhus
To see his peat-brown head,
The mild pods of his eye-lids,
His pointed skin cap.

Well done Dennis, what are your other times?

Jul 1st 2003 at 05:25:35 AM
Name:  

Dennis

Best intermediate:  

2x 28 --> 2x25 --> 23

Comments:  

WOW! I just cannot believe it! I am playing really well right now. Too bad that I have to go to work soon! Well, at least I got to beat my record once again!!! It's weird that only two days ago my record was 28 and now it's 23! I got it on a 38 3bv board. If I continue like this, I'll have beaten the world record by the end of the week! Man, this should be plenty to keep me happy for the next couple of days!

Jul 1st 2003 at 04:44:09 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

133

Best intermediate:  

28x2 --> 25x2

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

Hi everyone! I've been playing intermediate quite a bit lately as I wanted to break my old record of 28. I got close several times. I got another 28, 3 29s, 5 30s etc. but I just couldn't break my record of 28. Then I was visiting my parents for the weekend and I wanted to play minesweeper. I had brought my own mouse as I don't like theirs. The graphics are different from the ones on my computer so I thought I'd just play a bit for fun. Nothing serious really. On my first game I screw up but then on my second game (a 30 3bv board) everything just went really well. I had no idea until I was writing my name and looked up on the counter. 25! I couldn't believe it. I knew that everything had run pretty smoothly but still! It was so great finally to have broken my record. Now I'm back in Aarhus and wanted to play for a bit before going to work. After about 5-10 minutes I got another 25! (42 3bv) These last couple of days have been absolutely amazing for sure! Congrats to everyone else who has broken their record lately! Take care and good luck everyone. Happy sweeping!

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Jun 30th 2003 at 04:31:13 PM
Name:  

Yannig

Comments:  

hey Martin, you're in my city, don't you want to come to my house and play a little bit of minesweeper?

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Jun 29th 2003 at 10:02:06 AM
Name:  

ZaZa Xiong

Comments:  

Thanks for the URL guys! But... could any one email me a winmine 3.1 plzzzzzzzzzzz?

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Jun 29th 2003 at 09:52:59 AM
Name:  

Owen

Comments:  



Come on Lasse, you can sub 40!

Jun 29th 2003 at 09:18:19 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Hi guys. I´m just checking by. I´m in Hamburg now... 400 km of biking in 5 days
Well, good to see that there's still life here.

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Jun 29th 2003 at 03:28:19 AM
Name:  

Oli

Best intermediate:  

14x1 15x2 16x4

Comments:  

New 3bv/s record for me: 16s on a 60 3bv board = 3,75 3bv/s

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Jun 28th 2003 at 09:13:34 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Daniele:
Xiong: Okay. But should it then be "Xiong ZaZa"?

By the way: new record for me: 15 with on a 49 3BV. Okay, nothing special, but my highest 3BV ever on a 15 or lower.

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Jun 27th 2003 at 12:52:54 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Stephan: ok, i'll try...but i hope to remember to post my times every 2 weeks...

Jun 27th 2003 at 07:39:56 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

http://active-ranking.de.vu/

Jun 27th 2003 at 07:14:13 AM
Name:  

Xiong

Comments:  

Stephan,glad to see you reply . But I lost the active ranking bookmark... By the way, Xiong is my name and "zaza" is just a sort of a nick name

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Jun 27th 2003 at 06:57:47 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Elmar, I must say, I don't really care if only 06/21/03 is the correct date format... I can write 21.06.03 if that's better

Jun 27th 2003 at 05:04:16 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

and you don't seem to understand the rules of english dates either!

Jun 27th 2003 at 02:54:26 AM
Name:  

Stephan B.

Comments:  

Hey Daniele and Xiaohu, as you both seem to be in a good shape these days, wouldn't it be the right moment to share the Active Ranking? For the current period, all times are accepted that have been or will be achieved between 21/06/03 and 04/07/03. Daniele, you could be the first Italian ever in that ranking !

Jun 27th 2003 at 02:51:15 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

Hey Xiong, as you post as "Xiong" in this guestbook, I just wondered if you are listed correctly in the Active Ranking (there, you are called "ZaZa Xiong"). Should it be Xiong ZaZa? I must admit that I don't understand the rules of chinese names.

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Jun 26th 2003 at 09:42:51 PM
Name:  

Xiong

Comments:  

Hi everybody, I need a winmine 3.1 version badly! The winmine 3.1 in the download page of this site is actually the win 95 version -_-! So if you have one, please email me one thanks in advance !

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Jun 26th 2003 at 02:43:50 PM
Name:  

Lasse Nyholm

Comments:  

Hi guys.
I've gained some of my old speed again these days, after playing way more than the last several months. This night has been the best so far - until now I've gotten 2 44s (3BV 153 and 156) and a 14. As my webpage is down, you guys can e-mail for the videos if you're interested.

Congrats to recent recordbreakers - Lanyjé

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Jun 26th 2003 at 02:30:49 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

HAHA! Daniel thought he had a worldrecord!

I'm just kidding..

Jun 26th 2003 at 09:06:26 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Boy is my face red (/light blue). As Georgi hinted to, it's a 9x9 board. I didn't even think to check because I presumed that Windows 2000 had the normal minesweeper. Apparently not. My apologies.

So now I'll dedicate myself to beating the record to save face

Jun 26th 2003 at 08:47:57 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Yeah I'm pretty sure. I just tried for a 32. I finished with 2 squares and 1 mine... and blew up. Another time. I'll send that on to you Georgi.

Hopefully I can claim some sort of world record for minesweeper, even if it is density.

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Jun 26th 2003 at 06:56:31 AM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

Daniel,
Are you sure that you completed 8x8 beginner board with 31 mines ?!?

Send a screenshot to me. Thanks

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Jun 26th 2003 at 05:04:24 AM
Name:  

Alex

Comments:  

Daniel Lynch: Don't talk like that. I am going home for the summer so I won't have access to my PC until the end of september. So I won't improve any more for a while. Plenty of time to catch up.

Daniele: 23--->20. Thats quite a jump for someone who couldn't buy a 22 for months. What was the 3BV?

Jun 26th 2003 at 01:45:27 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

I just tried my first beginner density. I completed 31 mines on my 5th board. What's the record? (email me if you want to see it).

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Jun 25th 2003 at 11:35:07 PM
Name:  

Georgi Kermekchiev

Comments:  

My beginner density record is 26 ...

Jon Simonsen has 31 on video
http://jontrans.0catch.com/Specials/B-31.avi

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Jun 25th 2003 at 10:15:33 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  


hey, speaking of densities, i broke (since my regular playing has gone downhill) my intermediate density record: 75 mines in 60 seconds 139 3bv on an int board. (my beg record is still 28 mines but someone has gotten 30).

Jun 25th 2003 at 01:48:13 PM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Well done Daniele,

I could foresee that one happening

I haven't been able to improve times because I've not had access to my home computer. I won't for a while. Maybe it's time to give it a break. Since I can't get speed, I took up the 24*30 in the past week. My record so far is 185 mines.

Best of luck to all.

Well done to Alex too. You're now well out of my league.

Jun 25th 2003 at 07:48:37 AM
Name:  

XF

Best expert:  

70

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Sometimes the "master" get beated by the "student"... I tought Daniele how to play and now he's better than me in the intermediate...
I must do something about it...

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Jun 25th 2003 at 02:02:14 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

57

Best intermediate:  

14

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Xiaohu (or is Zhang your first name?),
10 sub60s and a record of 58 that's tough. I only have three sub60 so far, 57,58,59,(60x4)
Actually you're ranked 36th now that Martin got a 59. How come you're listed as USA/Indiana? As far as I know, Stanford isn't in Indiana (Cal or something).

Congrats, to Alex and Daniele.

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Jun 24th 2003 at 06:15:13 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

59

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Just wanted to say goodbye and wish a good summer to all on the northern part of the globe
I'll be leaving tomorrow on bike from home (Copenhagen, Denmark) and hopefully reach Paris in a couple of weeks. I'll probably be back to sweep like hell again in about three weeks.

So long and keep sweeping

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Jun 24th 2003 at 03:21:39 PM
Name:  

Xiaohu Zhang

Best expert:  

58

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

I don't really play inter or beginner seriously. But I found that in order to get into the top 100, one has to have scores for inter and beginner. I played just two hours and got 16 and 3 respectively. This will give me a rank about 25 something. I'm from China and now I'm studying at Stanford University at USA.
As in my previous post, I have made 58 five times, 59 five times and 60 five times . I think I should be able to make a breakthrough soon.

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Jun 24th 2003 at 01:33:39 PM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

23*3 ---> 20

Comments:  

Oh yes!!! At last...

Jun 24th 2003 at 12:39:15 PM
Name:  

Xiaohu Zhang

Best expert:  

58

Comments:  

I've made 5 58sec, 5 59 sec and 5 60 sec now! Will I make a major breakthrough soon? I have all the pics at www.stanford.edu/~zhangxh/Winmine_records

Jun 24th 2003 at 03:41:07 AM
Name:  

Alex

Best expert:  

72--->69!!!!!!

Best intermediate:  

19

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Finally! After what seems like ages, I have broken 2 records in 1! i now have a sub 70 expert and a sum 90 (89)!!!

Jun 23rd 2003 at 12:46:01 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

250 sub-70s!!
another lame 69 but still.

Jun 22nd 2003 at 03:47:42 PM
Name:  

Leo Bird

Best expert:  

I am shite!

Comments:  

Yo, yo, yo. Minesweeper king. How are you? What is kicking off in the world of Damien. Vonny gone back to Stirling, Are you sad? Keep it real.

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Jun 22nd 2003 at 02:53:20 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

ähm 2,87 3bv/s that is...

Jun 22nd 2003 at 02:26:11 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Martin, Congratulations on your first sub60. Good thing you're going on that bike trip. It's time you slow down.

Just broke my 3bv/s-record. 72 for a 3bv204 board -> 3,87
I had tied my old record on friday (85/242-3bv).
I also missed another sub60 on the last click that day (vid on my site).
I must say i'm in good shape these days. I'm experimenting with a new style, more flags and doubleclicks. I'm marking about 80 mines now instead of about 40. Just check out the video. I find it works better.

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Jun 22nd 2003 at 04:08:37 AM
Name:  

Daniele

Best intermediate:  

23*3

Comments:  

Uff...another 23...

Jun 22nd 2003 at 03:45:12 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Comments:  

Btw, I will leave at Wednesday because I will bike from Copenhagen to Paris (about 1200 km) and be away for about three weeks, so I hoped to get some decent scores for the AR, because I probably will get a 5 sec penalty... I Guess I have done that now... 59-15-3: Best AR times ever for me

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Jun 22nd 2003 at 03:37:28 AM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61x2 -> 59

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Yihaa!!! Second record within 36 hours
59.47 sec, 135 3BV.. could have been a 58 with a little more luck at the end, but ok...

Guess I'll have to update my home page now...

Well, happy sweeping!

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Jun 21st 2003 at 09:54:26 PM
Name:  

amber

Comments:  

thanx good noght

Jun 21st 2003 at 01:46:41 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61x2

Best intermediate:  

15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

@Dennis: For the 3BV take a look at http://stephan-bechtel.de/3bv.htm.
About the board you have found: It's called the Dreamboard (DB for short), and actually Steffen Stachna has got a 8 and Roland Seibt a 9 by memorizing excactly that board. Matt's got a 10 because he had some knowledge of the board before he played it (he had played it several times before, so he basically knew where the big openings were etc.), but not memorized it.

@Amber: Check the Downloads section on this page

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Jun 21st 2003 at 01:23:24 PM
Name:  

amber

Comments:  

this game is fun i would play it all the time like yall but it got erased from my computer can yall give me a web site to install it to my computer and other games like minesweeper
thanx amber

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Jun 21st 2003 at 12:05:55 PM
Name:  

D L (again!)

Best intermediate:  

28 x 2

Comments:  

I just noticed something... The world record on int. is 10 seconds. Well, that's not what I noticed! I noticed that it's the same board as one of Lasse's 12s and Dan Cerveny's missed 10! This board seems to be perfect if one wants a really good score! Others have probably gotten good scores on this board as well!

Jun 21st 2003 at 10:45:47 AM
Name:  

Dennis

Comments:  

Hey, I think I figured out how to count the 3bv! If I did it right, then the 3bv of my first 28 was 30 and the 3bv for my second 28 was 36. When dividing the 3bv with the number of seconds used on a board, does that then give you an idea of how good you are??? What's the name for the number you get when dividing these two? I'll try to check out my screenshots to find out what my best result REALLY is! Maybe it isn't 28 at all but 30 or something! Tell me if I'm doing something wrong here! This is all very new to me! I just looked at one of my 30's it has a 3bv of 49 so that's actually better than the 28's, right? Still learning! Take care!

Jun 21st 2003 at 10:13:06 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Best expert:  

137 -> 133

Best intermediate:  

28 x 2

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

My internet has been down for a while so I haven't written here for some time now. I saw someone who had 27 as his best time on int. and 9 as his best time on beginner. How is that possible, I ask myself? 9 seconds!!! I feel like crying when I get such a lousy time! .... and I'm only 28 on int. Guess whoever got that 9 doesn't play beginner too often. I don't play beginner too often myself. I almost solely play intermediate. I'm getting close to beating my 28 I think. I've gotten close lots of times lately so It'll happen one of these days I'm sure!

QUESTION (and I think I asked this before but I can't find any responses):

What is a '3bv'? How do you calculate the '3bv' of a given board? Could somebody explain that to me as I am VERY interested in knowing how to do that! Thanks!

Oh, and congrats to everyone who broke their record since last time I was here! Keep sweeping!

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Jun 21st 2003 at 08:39:39 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Active ranking site has been updated.

Jun 21st 2003 at 07:19:31 AM
Name:  

XF

Best expert:  

70

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Agree with Paul on trolls... Are there any management controls on the guestbook? That seems like 2 friends got trolling on our guestbook just to have some fun...
I Haven't played seriously for a long time now... Gotta restart sometime...

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Jun 21st 2003 at 06:34:14 AM
Name:  

Roelof Smit

Comments:  

One lesson for all newcomers: Paul is quite often right...

Jun 21st 2003 at 03:09:58 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

Joe, I think that's the 12 Steps to Recovery you're looking for. Just find an AA site and insert "minesweeper" everywhere you see "alcohol".

Good luck with that!

Jun 20th 2003 at 07:08:24 PM
Name:  

Joe Pilon

Comments:  

April,
You make me laugh, can't quite explain it. You just do. Have a good night. Play a game or two you might learn to like it.

Jun 20th 2003 at 06:58:07 PM
Name:  

Joe Pilon

Best expert:  

124

Best beginner:  

5

Comments:  

Eyes glazed, back aches, I'm starting to wonder about my addiction to this game. Is there a 10 step program for people like me?

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Jun 20th 2003 at 04:19:16 PM
Name:  

Martin Toft Madsen

Best expert:  

61x2

Best intermediate:  

16 -> 15

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

OK, I can see that the timing isn't great
Anyway: 15,38 sec, 36 3BV

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Jun 20th 2003 at 03:28:33 PM
Name:  

Yannig

Comments:  

How did you came to this site april? you don't play the game and you hate it. Or did you just thought one day "I don't like minesweeper, I will start finding and hating people that play it?"
u suck

Jun 20th 2003 at 02:17:34 PM
Name:  

Anonymous Surfer

Comments:  

YOU STUPID ASS! THIS IS KRISTINA AND EMILY!!!!

Jun 20th 2003 at 02:09:50 PM
Name:  

you know who this is

Comments:  

OMG you are a loser! 2inch dick?! you set yourself up for this one!!! im not going to clown on you for having that though... at least you are proud of it.... i guess.... neways if i were you i would be afraid. im the one w/ the 350 pound sumo mama! any day she could sit on your ugly karate kickin ass and kill you! watch out!!!!

Jun 20th 2003 at 02:07:01 PM
Name:  

chris

Comments:  

im tired of this, this is so stupid and time consuming. you need a life, at least minesweeper is fulfilling. this will be the last message to you and as a great philosopher once said "a pretty girl can kiss a guy, a bird can kiss a butterfly, the sun can kiss a blade of grass, and you my friend CAN KISS MY ASS" -THE END(OR WILL THE SAGA CONTINUE)

Jun 20th 2003 at 01:47:42 PM
Name:  

chris

Comments:  

oh yea you caught me, my name is chris fudkins or whatever...YEA RIGHT! CHRIS FUDKINS CAN SUCK MY 2 INCH DICK! and dont even try to cut on my dick cuz its not the size of the boat, its the motion of the ocean baby. now shut the fuck up.



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