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Feb 27th 2004 at 04:53:36 PM
Name:  

Michael S. Repton

Best expert:  

78 (x3)

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hey, we have another Michael! Hi Michael.

Stevan: very glad to hear it, as I'm getting a bit impatient with my lack of progress as well. Mind you, in the last couple of weeks I've only been able to play when I've been really tired, and I've got a few 82/3s nonetheless, so I figure once I get back into a proper routine I should be able to hit sub-75. However, I won't have access to a good computer after June, so I want to get as good as I can in that time!

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 04:33:25 PM
Name:  

Stevan

Comments:  

It depends on how often you play, 3-4 hours per week and you can expect sub60 in... say... a year

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Feb 27th 2004 at 04:14:39 PM
Name:  

michael

Best expert:  

93

Best intermediate:  

35

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

i am 19 years old and i have been playing for about 3 years. how long do you think it will take for me to get sub 60 expert scores?

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Feb 27th 2004 at 04:11:27 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Comments:  

@ Rodrigo: i was wondering if you could perhaps put links on your website for past versions of your game, that way people can see the development process. (i extracted my new version every time to overwrite the previous version)

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 12:37:40 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

55

Comments:  

****, my skills are starting to return, almost pulled a 59 today and I have been hovering around 66 for my completed games! If only my lazy ass would buy a mouse pad I might be able to make some progress.

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 12:37:31 PM
Name:  

Jarad

Best expert:  

55

Comments:  

****, my skills are starting to return, almost pulled a 59 today and I have been hovering around 66 for my completed games! If only my lazy ass would buy a mouse pad I might be able to make some progress.

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 11:40:03 AM
Name:  

Justin Guay

Best expert:  

81

Best intermediate:  

16

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Active Ranking times.

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Feb 27th 2004 at 10:11:57 AM
Name:  

Daniel Lynch

Comments:  

I also recommend the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves". It's a very humourous book regarding the major pitfalls of punctuation. I think it's listed on amazon.co.uk

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 09:55:56 AM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

72

Best intermediate:  

19

Comments:  

Active Ranking times this period

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 08:24:38 AM
Name:  

Marc Schouten

Comments:  

Colon and semicolon uses:
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/col-semi.html

So no, you should have used a colon there instead Jon .

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 08:18:25 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Jon, I am no expert when it comes to semi colon either but I don't like it where you've put it. I could be wrong though! My memory might not be the best but as far as I can remember my English teacher once said to me that the sentence after the semi colon somehow needs to refer to the sentence before the semi colon. I'm not sure I ever quite understood what he meant by that! But I got 6 13s (13 is the highest grade possible in Denmark!) on my last year in high school for my English essays so I must have done SOMETHING right!

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 06:21:28 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

I've just uploaded my last expert videos to my home site. As for expert; I have 2 56's and 6 64's, but not a single 69 yet. Strange
BTW: Is it right to use a semi colon there? I've never been totally sure about those rules.

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Feb 27th 2004 at 04:45:17 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Lance and Marko: probably there is no problem with your computer. Some people really don't get used to seeing anti-alised graphics. It is a good resource to be used, but when it is needed. In Minesweeper, it's not THAT needed, because the graphics are not complex, they are simple, and don't need to be anti-aliased. I did it but I didn't need to do. So, I decided to make the game skin changeable also to the original minesweeper versions. But only the main window graphics is changed. The smiley and the timer and mines counters are the same. They will make the game different from the original.

This change is already in the new version, the 0.62 beta, already downloadable from the site. Please check it out! Thanks!

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Feb 27th 2004 at 03:47:36 AM
Name:  

Marko Jeznik

Comments:  

Or I guess I could've just said no, there's nothing wrong with your computer. Drifted a tiny bit off topic, sorry.

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 03:45:38 AM
Name:  

Marko Jeznik

Comments:  

@Lance: taken directly from Rodrigo's homepage (let's hope he won't sue me for that) "In order to differentiate the game from the original Minesweeper, it uses a special high-color 'anti-aliased' skin..." which basically just means smoother edges and transitions between colours, therefor the blurry impression you get.

   
Feb 27th 2004 at 12:43:59 AM
Name:  

Dion

Best expert:  

48 (x2)

Comments:  

Woah.
3BV 149
3BV/s 3.10

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 08:17:32 PM
Name:  

Greg Loken

Best expert:  

67

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

hey this is an update to my previous scores of 73, 23, and 3 over a year ago. thanks.

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 08:12:47 PM
Name:  

Lance

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

13

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Has anyone else noticed that the graphics on Rodrigo's clone are a bit blurry, compared to the winmine program? I am curious if anyone else has noticed because if so, I would have thought more people would have been complaining. Now I am wondering if it is something with my computer, though everything else is crystal clear, incl. winmine.

Happy sweeping,

Lance

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Feb 26th 2004 at 07:54:30 PM
Name:  

Scott

Comments:  

I never go for speed, rather I choose custom and increase the number of mines to a ratio of 1:4 (1 mine:4 squares) Expert is set at 1:4.8+. Completeing a large board 24 X 30 with 185+ mine is IMO pretty difficult.

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Feb 26th 2004 at 07:41:26 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Best intermediate:  

19 (x6!!!)

Comments:  

argggggh. that's 6 19's. i swear i can't get any better than that. what the heck

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 07:24:59 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Best expert:  

66

Comments:  

@Rodrigo: Excellent update, sir. your clone seems to be pretty much flawless, as far as i am concerned. the look is great, the timing is accurate, the gameplay is almost identical to the original. i'm not sure what adjustments that you could make other than the ones you have already. you've got my vote for counting it as official (although i'm not sure what that counts for)

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 01:54:46 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Dan: I've been programming so much and seeing so many boards and computing its 3BV that I believe I am getting good about guessing the 3BV... maybe not bya difference of 5, but quite good also!

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 01:41:08 PM
Name:  

Niklas Cornelius

Best expert:  

67

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

It's nice too see that I'm not the only one who spend way too much time on this game.
I play the game as a sort of meditation, to set good scores you have empty your brain and relax.
But I have to stop playing this much, my studies suffers from it...

Hej dĺ! ( Bye in swedish )

   
Feb 26th 2004 at 12:28:55 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

I still use an old 3BV calculator program that I have to run separately after a minesweeper game is over. After each game, whether I finish or screw up, I look at the board for literally only one to three seconds and guess what the 3BV is, then I run the calculator program. I find that my guesses are within 5 of the actual 3BV of the board almost every time. Is anyone else able to guess so accurately?

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Feb 26th 2004 at 11:40:28 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/ 3pm EST ****

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Feb 26th 2004 at 11:36:16 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Best expert:  

56x2

Comments:  

The removal of beginner times from the AR seems to have "forced" me to play more expert. One of the consequences is a nice improvement in times. I got a time of 56,10 today. I expect to upload it to my homesite soon along with a bunch of sub-65's. Once again I used a little more time than I could wish in the end. I still think I lack a bit behind in mouse handling compared to the time I use to find patterns. I'm just notoriously bad at relaxing (especially in my shoulders). Any tips beside listening to music, talking on the phone or thinking about something else?

   
Feb 25th 2004 at 01:21:26 PM
Name:  

Marko Jeznik

Comments:  

There simply is no 9x9 when it comes to records.
And that's a good thing.

   
Feb 25th 2004 at 01:06:08 PM
Name:  

Chris Gilsdorf

Best expert:  

89

Best intermediate:  

24

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

HI, I just had a question. What is the policy on playing on the XP version of the Beginner field ( 9x9 ) as opposed to others ( 8x8 ) when it comes to setting records? I got 2 seconds one time on an 8x8, but twice in one day on a 9x9. Thanx!

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Feb 25th 2004 at 12:56:10 PM
Name:  

Gustaf Forsman

Best expert:  

69 -> 67

Comments:  

Getting closer to 1 min.
Watch out ppls, here I come

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Feb 25th 2004 at 11:23:45 AM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

No decision has been made with regard to accepting times done on clones for the Active Ranking. I believe one person last period sent in two sets of times, one done on Rodrigo's clone and one done on Microsoft. We used the Microsoft version times.

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Feb 25th 2004 at 08:21:27 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

All right, Stephen! Many people complained about the skin, that was a little too bright. I tried to resist but I couldn't. I gave up and changed the colors to be exactly as the original. In fact, Stephen, the depressed button color is the same as the non-depressed. It's just an optical illusion that makes us believe that the depressed buttons are darker. Also, many people asked about automatically starting a new game when changing game mode. And it's also in the new version, the 0.61 beta, already released.

Tell me what you think about the new skin. I must admit that the boards looks more cute now!

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Feb 24th 2004 at 09:53:43 PM
Name:  

Stephen

Comments:  

also @Rodrigo, regarding your clone, i was just going to make a few suggestions i thought about your clone. keep in mind that these suggestions are extremely picky, basically i am trying to find any differences in your game from the original, i think it is an excellent clone. ok, so in the original minesweeper games, the color of the depressed square are only slightly darker than the unpressed squares. Your clone is the opposite. not a big deal but it seems a little different. also, when choosing a game in the original minesweeper, such as choosing expert (while on intermediate), the game automatically reset, and started a new board, without pressing the smiley face. if there could be some way to turn off all the excess options, (ie in another options menu perhaps, place a "legal game" that can be turned on or off, and if it is on then the menu appears exactly as the original minesweeper (beginner, intermediate expert,etc.) and i seem to have slightly, but only slightly worse times on the clone then the original. I think this may be in part due to the fact that there is a slight delay (talking on the order of hundredths or tenths of a second) in the depression of the square. anyways i'm done picking your clone apart. enjoyed playing it immensely

   
Feb 24th 2004 at 09:35:44 PM
Name:  

Stephen Arnason

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

19

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

I was just wondering if a verdict was ever reached as far as whether or not Roderigo's clone would be an acceptable minesweeper game for the active ranking or other records. is there anyone who can specify this for me? thanks

   
Feb 24th 2004 at 06:47:35 PM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

**** Deadline Friday @ 20:00 GMT/ 3pm EST ****

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Feb 24th 2004 at 02:56:55 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Hello again, everybody!

I released today another version of my clone, the 0.6 beta. Now I did some last adjustments I found necessary and included some requests from you guys. As an example, now all the options in the options window also exist in an option menu, for those who preffer the drop-down style. Yet, counters are finally labeled and also in bigger fonts. And some small things more. I also included some videos from the guys who authorized me until now. I hope you all check it out, keep playing and like it!

I believe there is more than a week that I don't get any bug report. I also haven't find many in the same period! Thanks again everybody!

Rodrigo.

@Stevan: I will certainly include your video on the website, it's really good! As soon as you tell me your full name, because I don't know it! The program still doesn't have multiplayer, but I'm studying what can be best done.

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Feb 24th 2004 at 01:11:10 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@roman: lasse is the only one above 4.00 on expert...(my best 3.90), as for int, several have hit 4.00...personal best is a 20 on a 96 for 4.90. i think however, that only half a dozen or so have done this.

   
Feb 24th 2004 at 07:15:07 AM
Name:  

Hopsing

Best expert:  

141

Best intermediate:  

38

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hi
I was playing minesweeper for some hours when a thought crossed my mind: Has anybody of you ever been challenged in minesweeper by somebody who didn't know you?
If so, how did you respond? Did you say he won't beat you or did you blow him to kingdom come (I like that phrase)?
Must be really funny...
Bye

   
Feb 24th 2004 at 04:08:45 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Oh well, too bad about my mouse. But no problem, those frensh on my campus will buy nearly anything. Good thing computer stuff is that expensive in france.

   
Feb 24th 2004 at 01:56:49 AM
Name:  

Stephan

Comments:  

@Roman: as far as I remember, I think, Sorin was the only one to have a 4 3BV/s on int. At least for nf style. Maybe Damien or anyone in this regions of speed has got one as well.

   


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