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Nov 16th 2006 at 05:11:05 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best expert:  

59 (x3) -> 57,16!!

Comments:  

Not exactly a sub-50, but... YESSSS, I have been anticipating this record for so long, especially since I always blast an expert game when I come so near to a record!! Finally landed one down, HECK YEAH!

(it's on a 152 board too) !!

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Nov 16th 2006 at 02:09:36 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Rilian:
I'll try to get another one before midnicht ;)

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Nov 16th 2006 at 12:05:40 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

Thx to Rilian:)

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 11:57:10 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

Now it's ok ,thx to Elmar:)

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 11:36:45 AM
Name:  

Rilian

Comments:  

correct link to Arbiter is just

http://rilian.net/mines/arbiter/

@all: no sub50-er today ? wtf!

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Nov 16th 2006 at 11:31:57 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

lol, oops sorry. I must have forgotten the attachement.
I'll send it again.

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 11:27:51 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

@Elmar : I recieve the mail... but ... where is Arbiter?

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 11:15:58 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

42

Best intermediate:  

12

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Zhang Shen Jia, I sent you a copy of Arbiter. Welcome to the dark side.

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 10:19:06 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

you have to get it today if you want to make history . Otherwise you can always arrange it with Schu so that you both get your sub-50s on the same day

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 09:46:44 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

come on!look this!
I promise..I will got a sub50 game in three day..

@joni:why damien can see them?

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Nov 16th 2006 at 09:03:07 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Sorry my clone can't play that.
I think it's the same old issue we talked about
in the forum about clone 0.97 with chinese charset...

website should be the correct link to the current arbiter release (you can find it in a topic in the forum at rilian.net/mines)

@Schu: come-on Schu you've still got some hours left to make it three days in a row

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Nov 16th 2006 at 09:02:47 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

mvf is here..

http://www.metanoodle.com/minesweeper/upload/zhang/Zhang%20Shen%20Jia-[52.86]-[3bv-141].mvf

hmm... "Please enter a valid URL"..

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 09:00:32 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

My exp record is 52.85...
In this game,I got 52.86...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 09:00:15 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

My exp record is 52.85...
In this game,I got 52.86...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
http://www.metanoodle.com/minesweeper/upload/zhang/Zhang Shen Jia-[52.86]-[3bv-141].mvf

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 09:00:09 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

My exp record is 52.85...
In this game,I got 52.86...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
http://www.metanoodle.com/minesweeper/upload/zhang/Zhang Shen Jia-[52.86]-[3bv-141].mvf

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 08:45:46 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

Have anybody could give me Minesweeper Aribter with email?Thank you very much!
my mail:
137516@qq.com

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 08:41:40 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

just look this!

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Nov 16th 2006 at 08:09:47 AM
Name:  

Louis

Best expert:  

2,323 --> 2,548 3bv/s NF

Comments:  

Another record
BTW i missed a 65sec on exp this morning. Current record = 73

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 07:13:40 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

here are knolans and tommys videos on youtube:

Tommy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rC33sUfIoY

Knolan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgBnbPBrwzM

Grats both of you. My turn to sub-50!

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Nov 16th 2006 at 07:00:17 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

zhang: you can upload your videos on this site ..... minesweeper/upload.

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 06:54:28 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Try rilian.net/mines

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Nov 16th 2006 at 06:46:39 AM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

@damien : I can't download arbiter from your site, can you upload it on www.yousendit.com?

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 03:46:53 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

OH, I forgot..

GO DARK SIDE!

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 03:43:47 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Just watched the vids. Good job guys.
Tommy do you really move your mouse so slowly or is my system unable to run arbiter vids in realtime?

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 03:11:51 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@Tommy: Wow, congrats. Saw it coming!
@Knolan: This one I didnt see coming, but congrats too.

Good thing I got that 42 with all these youngsters coming up from behind...

I think I had 130-150 sub60s when I got my 48 (1300 sub60s vs 15 sub50s now).

   
Nov 16th 2006 at 12:16:10 AM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

INSANE!! Ranks 19 and 21 on the bestever list, absolutely incredible... and Thomas, you can still reduce the seconds on your beginner and intermediate times as well, which is really scary! Congrats to both of you, I hope I can advance up that list one day too!

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 07:24:32 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

nearby 50....please see this...

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Nov 15th 2006 at 06:23:25 PM
Name:  

Jake

Best expert:  

39

Comments:  

I played lawnmower to build up hand speed, 8x8 with 3 mines to build up reflexes, and 16x16 with 60 or 70 mines to learn all the hard patterns.

Tommy, my only advice to you is, break your mouse and get a new one. That's what got me 44->39!

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Nov 15th 2006 at 05:58:30 PM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

youtube is taking a long time to process the video

Click on the link: I got a game back in july where I got adjacent 7s (as in, surrounded by 10 mines) and a 7 next to that as well. I found that getting 2 7s like that is a one in 12,000 chance, getting a 7 near is a one in 1.2 million chance, and getting them all in a line like I did is a one in 5.1 million chance.

I didn't think I played *that* much!

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Nov 15th 2006 at 05:36:59 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Best expert:  

53

Comments:  

Jesus ******* christ! Knolan!

Wow, just wow.

(I'd be closer to sub50 if somebody would actually make a clone for macs... could sweep more if that was the case... expect a pleading post about that sometime in the next few days)

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 04:57:03 PM
Name:  

Robbie

Comments:  

@Arjádre: Thanks for the info, i appreciate it

@Damien: any idea when the next update will be? im excitied cause i wanted to see my name up there as state champion

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 04:32:55 PM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

Grats Knolan!! Uploading to youtube now.

Thomas, I'll youtube your 47 as soon as you give me permission.

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Nov 15th 2006 at 03:47:11 PM
Name:  

Megan

Best expert:  

58.203

Best intermediate:  

17.532

Best beginner:  

2.703

Comments:  

Now if only my name would get put on the lists already! How many videos do I have to send?!

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Nov 15th 2006 at 12:52:00 PM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

regarding these happenings I have slowly the feeling of experience a part minesweeper history

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 12:17:29 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Holy **** Knolan, welcome to the club!!!
Very nice!!!
Now you can play int
thats an 8 second jump. My 6 secs are dwarfed...
Two new sub50 players in two days. how often has that happened before?
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nov 15th 2006 at 11:41:48 AM
Name:  

Knolan

Best expert:  

49

Comments:  

Bouyaaaaaaaaaa :D




It's my very first post on the GB ... but for a sub50 ... anything can be done

And no it's not cheat ... lucky yes ... for sure ^^

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Nov 15th 2006 at 11:05:22 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

lol.. Knolan (french sweeper) just got a 57 -> 49 exp record on a babyboard... (112 3bv)

grats, though!

flashing news from IRC channel,
(AreOut) heh I know its cheat but grats anyway

7BRF.. 7 beer

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Nov 15th 2006 at 10:04:00 AM
Name:  

Ian

Comments:  

Woooo, go Thomas!!!!!!! You really deserve it Now I have a big catch-up to do

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Nov 15th 2006 at 08:25:26 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Comments:  

GOD **** MOTHERF***** ****
got the easiest board since that 25 3bv board over ONE YEAR ago
i was playing on my notebook where my best time was 18 befor and i forgot one single square when i was at 11 and i spent 2 sec searching it WARGHHHHH it sucks , only 13 !!!!
3bv was 36
:*-(

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 05:50:34 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

well Damien, I think that explains it very well. now you have training facilities that one didn't have in the "old" days... and Tommy is taking full advantage of them. I would have never thougth somebody would make such a detailed training program (I almost never use restricted 3BVs and decide what I'm going to play or how impulsively)

   
Nov 15th 2006 at 05:24:17 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

No.

Don't tell me that q.ueer is censored...

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Nov 15th 2006 at 05:22:20 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Damien:
I dont know exactly, but I think probably around 50. I have 39 in my history file at home, and I guess I probably got around ten at school as I hardly play at school anymore.
Speaking of school, the raid-server there appearantly crashed and everything there was deleted which would include my history file and all the vids I got at school I heard that they were able to restore 70%, but I guess it could take a long time until that is available
Now I dont even have the history file including my 3bvs/s record...

Thanks for the congrats!
@joni:
I thought about taking a break for a while, so I could get my schoolwork up to scratch, but I decided to leave that till I sub50ed. So I think I'm probably going to take a break soon... I'll probably not stop playing completely though, I had an idea a while ago:
Starting from december 1., I will play only NF restricted 3bv beginner (3bv<=4) and expert with 130 mines, where I plan on playing slowly, but as efficiently as I manage. To stay sane, I'm going to play NF restricted 3bv int (3bv<=40) as well.
In this period, I want to keep a ratio of 50 finished beg. games, 5 finished int games, and 1 finished exp game.
The week after, I'm going to play normal NF beginner and 130M expert at a comfortable pace as well as exp restricted 3bv (3bv<=130) with my mind completely on efficiency. I might continue to play restr int then, but I'm not sure if I will.
In this phase I want my ratio to be 40 beg, (4 int restr), 3 exp restr, and 1 exp 130M.

Then, I celebrate my birthday

And then I decide whether I want to continue in a similar pattern or not.
I want to play restr. beginner in order to improve my reflexes, restr. int to change my int style to something more efficient (I'm thinking about leaving out int entirely and playing only restr int for a week after the rest of my training program as I actually want to acchieve a style turnover, I want my style to become hyper-efficient). playing density expert serves the pourpose of discovering patterns and recognizing them quicker as well as solvin them more efficiently, and playing normal beginner serves the pourpose of getting a one and never having to play beginner again
Finally, restr exp is supposed to train my exp low3bv style.

If that sounds absolutely crazy to you, I'll take that as a compliment
has anyone ever done something like this before? I'd be interested to hear what happened, and how you managed to stay sane
This is really putting some pressure on me to get a 14 by the end of november, I actually planned to sub15 while I was still 15

and finally, as I preview this, I get 8RAS as VC.

Bras?

And as I preview that, I get VC=BRAE. The bracode with one letter shifted

OK, sorry, one more:

QYRR.
Now thats a ***** one

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Nov 15th 2006 at 01:42:57 AM
Name:  

Ace

Comments:  

@Thomas : awesome jump indeed!!

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 10:53:55 PM
Name:  

Nikolaj

Comments:  

@Tommy grats! VC: URPA - You are pretty awesome
@Joni: I have exactly the same feeling

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 06:39:32 PM
Name:  

Dane

Best intermediate:  

21.726 ---> 21.293

Best beginner:  

3.199 ---> 3.05

Comments:  

also int rqp 9.174 --> 8.642
@thomas wow

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 04:38:15 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Best expert:  

53

Comments:  

Tommy's 47 gives me hope to sub50 sometime this century

Congrats man, I saw this coming.

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 03:11:07 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

grats man!

there is not much to say to that... (the only reflection that comes to my mind at the moment is "i think I'm too old for this game" )

I think you could use a little break now.

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 02:03:21 PM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

Congrats Thomas, that's a big jump!

Anyway when the page was loading the green smileys came out first, all to the left (no other smileys, and no spaces left for them), making a big green F I was wondering why you put an F there...

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 02:02:03 PM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

Congrats Thomas, that's a big jump!

Anyway when the page was loading the green smileys came out first, all to the left (no other smileys, and no spaces left for them), making a big green F I was wondering why you put an F there...

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 10:44:03 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Blame Rilian

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 10:25:17 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@thomas: nice!

how many sub60 games do you have? lasse and dan both sub50d with ~200 sub60 games, i sub50d when I had ~350 sub60 games. i don't understand how all you guys sub50 so fast!

it must be because you guys know it is possible...when the site started most people did not believe it could happen. the chart i started making a few months ago (of all sub50 players) shows that each player gets to the 40s in less time then the person before...it is like the 4 minute mile. it was many years before one person did it: a few years later you had to do it, or you didn't qualify for the olympics!

BTW: should the record "time" be the time the video shows, or the time your history file shows????

(when i got 6.62 3bvs on beg, the vid said 6.61, the history said 6.62)

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 07:35:12 AM
Name:  

schu

Comments:  

@ Tommy: wow!! we were all expecting it I think, but it's still amazing to see you jump like that. well done!

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 07:29:03 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

grats, Tommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AY8E

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Nov 14th 2006 at 07:25:04 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

53,13-->47,12!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments:  

I 47ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ON A 127 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/me watched exp game --> Time: 47,11 «» Est Time: 47,11 «» 3BV: 127 / 127 «» 3BV/s: 2,75 «» Rank Time: 1 «» Rank 3bv/s: 108 «» IOS: 1,26 «» RQP: 17,11 «» Games: 918 «» Cl/s: 4,87- Tommy @_-

When I played this game I thought it felt fast, but that definetly was not what I was expecting. I thought vaguely that it might become a highscore, and then I finished.
I wouldnt have expected this to happen that fast. I expected to sub50, but I didnt expect to do it so radically. I'm too shocked to be happy at the moment, I guess I'm still taking it in...

47!47!47!47!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!









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Nov 14th 2006 at 05:11:10 AM
Name:  

Ace

Best expert:  

3.648 3BV/s

Best intermediate:  

4.43 -> 4.672 3BV/s

Best beginner:  

6.449 3BV/s

Comments:  

First of all, grats to all new record-breakers!
Yesterday I beat my 3BV/s on int, as I was trying to beat that dam*** 14 I already got 11 times...
(syndrome in sight, hehe...)

   
Nov 14th 2006 at 02:59:44 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

"Outdated"? Kat and Todd beat Dion in average time! Now to me that's brand new information!

   
Nov 13th 2006 at 07:52:26 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

I forgot to congratulate Joni, Thomas, and Ian

@Robbie: note that the rankings are somewhat inaccurate and outdated, but it's the best the community has right now.

@IMC: GET OFF YOUR A**ES AND MAKE A DECISION ABOUT CUSTOM SKINS.

   
Nov 13th 2006 at 07:48:23 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

Thanks@all

@Robbie: check out the link below. There is a drag-down menu of rankings for several statistics, including IOS and RQP.

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Nov 13th 2006 at 06:28:25 PM
Name:  

Robbie

Best expert:  

83 -> 79.432

Comments:  

Finally got below 80 on expert, but thats irrelevant. Does anyone know if there is a list of the records for some of the other values clone gives, such as RQP or IOS?

   
Nov 13th 2006 at 04:24:15 PM
Name:  

joni

Best expert:  

NF 73 -> 71, NF 3BV/s 2.1 -> 2.3

Comments:  

Congrats Tommy and Arjádre
I started an NF expert session today expecting nothing less than an hopsing . I went through some very good games. Of course I didn't finish any games for a long time. But I can see that my NF solving skills have improved as now I can solve at least half of the board at a good steady rythm, before getting messed up in difficult patches or misclicking or simply slowing down because I'm tired - mostly on high 3BV games. I did finish one game, this was a bit quieter than all the fantastic estimates I had got till that point (I have learned to mistrust those a long long time ago), but I got what I wanted, I knew as I placed the last click that that popup was going to appear. I'm confident I can better that again, especially the 3BV/s, but I'm satisfied for the day.

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Nov 13th 2006 at 12:55:42 PM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

So what's the IMC's opinion about the custom skin question? Is it debating yet? Until when can we expect answers?

   
Nov 13th 2006 at 10:37:46 AM
Name:  

Ian

Comments:  

Grats all

I solved my mouse problem! It turns out the mousemat I was using is complete c-r-a-p with optical mice. It waws too rough, so didn't reflect the light well enough. New mousemat, and is working well.

/me exp game --> Time: 68.76 «» Est Time: 68.76 «» 3BV: 184 (184) «» 3BV/s: 2.71 O_O

/me exp game --> Time: 73 «» Est Time: 73 «» 3BV: 157 (157) «» 3BV/s: 2.18

/me exp game --> Time: 75.29 «» Est Time: 75.29 «» 3BV: 168 (16 «» 3BV/s: 2.26

/me exp game --> Time: 68.26 «» Est Time: 68.26 «» 3BV: 176 (176) «» 3BV/s: 2.61 :E

Wahey, 4 games in 13 minutes!

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Nov 13th 2006 at 05:48:52 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Nice Tommy! Record on a board with 18 openings!
It looks funny how you sometimes pause for a moment. Other than that I like your style! Try to fill those gaps with some sub-efficient solving and you're good to go for sub50.

   
Nov 13th 2006 at 05:15:40 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

53,18-->53,13 53*3

Comments:  

It definetly is an improvement ;)
/me watched exp game --> Time: 53,13 «» Est Time: 53,13 «» 3BV: 143 / 143 «» 3BV/s: 2,74 «» Rank Time: 1 «» Rank 3bv/s: 106 «» IOS: 1,25 «» RQP: 19,36 «» Games: 909 «» Cl/s: 5,06- Tommy >:)
I did some NF speed solving I'm proud of in this game.

Linked ;)

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Nov 13th 2006 at 04:40:11 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

NF: 63

Comments:  

Dammit arj, you passed me again!
NICE GAME!!!

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Nov 13th 2006 at 04:17:43 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

I think custom skins should definitely be allowed. I'm sure different skins work for different people so I don't see how making custom skins legal would be unfair to anyone, since everyone is free to make the most optimal skin for themselves. Besides, I like the No-number skin and it would be great if the info was stored on which skin was used. ;o)

   
Nov 12th 2006 at 10:49:10 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

I decided to try to play efficiently on both expert and intermediate, which worked pretty well for me. I got a sweet game of 4,34 3bv/s at .98 IOE, with only one superfluous click! I still overflag a bit, but it is a first step toward improvement.

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Nov 12th 2006 at 03:01:00 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

My vista skin for MSX is posted at my website (linked below). Scroll down till you see it and then save picture as to save it and use it.

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Nov 12th 2006 at 02:56:47 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

68=>60.85 NF

Best intermediate:  

14 NF

Best beginner:  

1 NF

Comments:  

AR 16-60

Nice easy board, decided to play it NF and got a record.

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Nov 12th 2006 at 12:36:52 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Arjadre has made a Vista skin for minesweeper X, but I don't think anyone has made a skin for the clone yet. Making the skin is easy (say, if Rodrigo allowed it on the clone...the graphics can be copied from the demo). But, it wouldn't have Vista sound effects...but then, we'd probably turn the sound off!

   
Nov 12th 2006 at 12:12:07 PM
Name:  

Ian

Comments:  

Riddle me this...
Whenever I play Expert on Arbiter, it always seems a real struggle to move the mouse and click in the right places. Also, whenever I guess, I seem to die almost all the time. But on winmine (<3), it's almost the reverse. I just played a bit of expert on both, on Arbiter I managed a 79 and lots of blasts, but the first go on winmine, I got a 62.80 on a 158, on the first game I played. WHAT IS GOING ON?? AAAAAARGH!

Although I am colourblind, I don't have any problem seeing the colours apart from 4 and 7 which are pretty similar. I certainly don't object to custom skins.

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Nov 12th 2006 at 11:35:01 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

@Schu: Not for making skins legal or illegal, I was just wondering if a Vista skin can be made fast - I'm not a programmer, y'know

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Nov 12th 2006 at 06:33:45 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

@ Banzhaf: cool, I agree. I assume you've read what I just linked then? I think that would be the best way to start the ball rolling with this, because I can't see any possible reason to call what I suggest potentially unfair or anything. No-numbers would also be nice, with the same custom colours. I could imagine someone arguing that maybe someone could make an unfairly good custom skin some other way, but there's no way my suggestion could do that.

@ all: if you're interested in skins and whether they should be legal or not, follow the link (it's to a particular post in a thread). I think it would be fantastic for everyone, but especially for colourblind people.

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Nov 12th 2006 at 06:12:06 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Comments:  

by the way, I strongly support every effort to make custom skins legal..
I don't seey any reason why it shouldn't be

   
Nov 12th 2006 at 12:08:04 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

And don't worry about Kat, I sorted her out

   
Nov 12th 2006 at 12:04:21 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Best expert:  

58- youtube video linked

Comments:  

Look at the link and read the comments

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Nov 11th 2006 at 11:38:53 PM
Name:  

Kat

Comments:  

Did GB get wider?

   
Nov 11th 2006 at 11:36:51 PM
Name:  

Kat

Comments:  

HI!!!

I want to set up my auto recording on clone but after reading help on the subject i am very confused any help would be greatly appreciated. lol@me being such a noob!

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Nov 11th 2006 at 03:12:06 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

Ha ha! 6.082 3bv/s on beginner (no big deal...my rec is 7.445)....but it is a 12 3bv board in 2 sec. Vid linked.

If anyone else wants to upload your files, email me. (if you are not already listed at minesweeper/upload)

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Nov 11th 2006 at 01:55:24 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Dennis: All 12 of my one-second beginner games have been uploaded!

I may upload more games later... I think I already uploaded too many in my folder >_>

   
Nov 11th 2006 at 12:10:53 PM
Name:  

Ian

Comments:  

Love the new feature Damien! I've put up my best Arbiter and my winmine 61 (linked). And bad luck Dennis, I'm sure you'll sub-50 someday

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Nov 11th 2006 at 11:56:13 AM
Name:  

Banzhaf

Best intermediate:  

22.xx -> 21.85

Comments:  

Yeeees, after being stuck at the probably behindertsten sum of 100,02s for months I finally enter sub100area

   
Nov 11th 2006 at 06:14:16 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

Am I getting this right? You are holding back the information because you dont think you will get the recognition you deserve? Why did you write the article then?
however, hi to all

   
Nov 11th 2006 at 02:21:57 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Okay, I decided to upload a few of the good videos that I currently have on my computer: 55x2 and 56x2, 13 on int, LC 13 on 48 3bv... And then I uploaded a game in cheat mode of a 108 3bv board I got on expert the other day. It was SO sweet and I only messed it up because of a stupid missclick, not even a guess! It was an est 45 but when I played it right afterwards in cheat mode I got a 43, so that is the video I have uploaded. Too bad I didn't get to finish it for real!

   
Nov 11th 2006 at 01:57:30 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Hey Tam, you should put your 1-sec games in there too. I would personally like to see them, if you don't mind. I only uploaded one video so far (3.375 3bv/s on expert) but there are more to come in the future.

   
Nov 10th 2006 at 04:36:56 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Nice Arj!!

Here is the directory to my minesweeper games: http://www.metanoodle.com/minesweeper/upload/tam/

And Damien: I finally got another two-second 10 3bv game, which is a 2,99 second and 5,02 3bv/s (linked below).

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Nov 10th 2006 at 04:06:20 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

3.066 3BV/s

Best intermediate:  

3.806 3BV/s

Best beginner:  

4.737=>5.002 3BV/s

Comments:  

w00t! sup3 and sup5 in one day!!! 6.598@28... way to sup5. vid linked below.

VC: M83Y
arrrrgh mateys!!

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Nov 10th 2006 at 03:03:20 PM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

You can upload your videos to this site!

Comments:  

If you follow the link, you can upload your record videos and best games!

If you email me you will get a folder with your nickname. link to your folder so people can browse your files, or link directly to the file (this works well unless you have lots of spaces in the name of your video).

I hope you guys enjoy this!

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Nov 10th 2006 at 03:00:51 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@Tam: thx

I've uploaded most of my records (including the sup3 exp and 3.8 int 3bvs) into the directory linked below. Thanks@ Damien!

VC: 3NAP... incidentally I took a nap around 3 PM today

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Nov 10th 2006 at 11:52:50 AM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best intermediate:  

4,47 3bv/s

Comments:  

Blasted 104/119 intermediate est. 4,96 3bv/s

I also LC'd a 4,85 3bv/s today, but I forgot to save a video of the loss.

@Arj: Grats on your records, aim for the sup-5 and sup-4 beg/int

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Nov 10th 2006 at 11:44:16 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

2.905=>3.066 3BV/s (today)

Best intermediate:  

3.627=>3.806 3BV/s (last Saturday)

Best beginner:  

4.737 3BV/s

Comments:  

w00t 3bv/s records... on ridiculously high 3bvs and sup3 exp finally
32@120 int and 79@242 exp

I'll post the vids later... I'm too lazy right now.

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Nov 10th 2006 at 06:14:53 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

@ Elmar: hehe, well if we're going into semantics, ultimately the amount of clicks, effective or total, mean nothing for efficiency: only time, 3BV/s, RQP, BAT, OBV/s and whatever else one can think up really measure how efficient you are. But the meaning of efficiency for these purposes is how many 3BV you solve with the average click, not the average efficient click. But like I said, you're welcome to make another INDICE

Click on the link for my post about the methods we use to solve. In short, they are:

1) simple number analysis, basically checking if unopened cells near a number = that number and if so flagging them, then checking numbers to see if they have the correct amount of flags and chording them

2) adjacent numbers: when numbers share common neighbouring squares, you can tell things about the squares that aren't neighbored by both. This includes wall-1-1-safe, 1-2-1, (3 safe)-1-4-(3 mines) etc.

3) sharing mines between groups of squares and analysing accordingly

and 4) everything else is done, so that square in the corner must be safe.

Please keep all discussion in that thread though, not here.

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Nov 10th 2006 at 04:41:09 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

hehe, na there are already too many indeXES out there.
But well said, IOE is an indicator of a clean game style. Doesnt mean it's efficient though.

   
Nov 10th 2006 at 04:27:25 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Elmar: All I'm interested in is IOE: 3BV/total clicks. I find that makes an attractive, effective game, not a game with literally hundreds of clicks wasted into thin air, and they DO waste time. If you want another index, make one. Games with clicks wasted are attractive in their own way as well, but that's not what I want this index to represent.

@ Damien: Interesting, huh! My model is designed for average scores though, not records, and it works for average scores a lot better. I'd be very curious to see how it works for density games though.

It'd be a shame for none of your information to be available to anyone else if there's something worthwhile in them.

If someone puts them on wikipedia, either they have to cite your website or the changes they make may be reverted, so if they completely knock off your info without citing your work, anything they put on wikipedia can be changed back without question.

   
Nov 10th 2006 at 01:55:41 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

schu: "And why would I want that? If you guys waste clicks, I want that to show in the statistics."

Well, that's what you have precision for. The thing is, those wasted clicks covered in precision don't cost time. So there's not really much use in trying to reduce them.
What does cost time is a bad throughput. Using inefficient solving strategies that use more actions than necessary means you have to aim at more squares meaning you have to make more stops than necessary and that's what's fatal.
So having a good IOE relative to throughput basicly just means you click slower. It doesnt mean your style is efficient for fast sweeping.

   
Nov 10th 2006 at 01:52:31 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

if i post donner's letters, someone will steal them and put them on wikpedia. I wrote a detailed article last year on the creation and early history of the game, but people will paraphrase the information and ignore the fact i have spent several dozen hours researching it.

"1.56 - 6.25 - 20.42" this is very interesting Schu. I use 1-6-18 as a general rule to check for people with lopsided (or fake) scores. 3-18-54, 4-24-72, 5-30-90, 6-36-108 etc.... As you mention, it breaks down on the lower scores

   
Nov 9th 2006 at 11:36:53 PM
Name:  

Schu (for the last time)

Comments:  

Sorry for spamming...

"Since losing initial contact, I was able to find Donner again in Autumn, 2005. I will
eventually be writing an indepth article on the creation of Minesweeper. Hope this has
been enough to whet your appetite!"

What's up with this Damien? That was a year ago! Did you forget about that?

   
Nov 9th 2006 at 11:19:27 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

and now for the hat-trick: Dions 38 on youtube now has 20,032 views! Congrats! I had a look, there are about 10 other places that have embedded that video. As far as minesweeper videos can go viral, it's viral!

VC: 9MEN...9 men better than Gabriel at minesweeper?

   
Nov 9th 2006 at 09:17:29 PM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

I've been thinking again, sorry

in minesweeperlive.com, I was talking to the admin about how much rating should be given for intermediate and expert, and I was thinking it should be based on average time. I remembered an old old formula I made to try to predict the average time for each level, and it works pretty well I think:

mines^2 / (height*width)

for beginner that's 1.56, for int it's 6.25 and for expert it's 20.42. If I multiply all of them by about 3.7 (and account for the timer starting at 1), it gives me pretty good estimates for my average times. Beginner's a bit high, but that's understandable really, since it's so small and lots of high 3BV games don't hit an opening, so I don't ever finish them.

I wonder how well this applies to density games? Anyone?

   
Nov 9th 2006 at 05:02:19 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

"Using througput would make your solving efficiency comparable with mine or badgers for example. ;-)"

And why would I want that? If you guys waste clicks, I want that to show in the statistics.

   


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