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Aug 26th 2005 at 12:23:25 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

blind.
ok

   
Aug 26th 2005 at 12:22:10 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

@Arjádre: Arbiter may save the completed or blasted boards in the ABF file (arbiter board file) which format it the same, as the "old" MBF. Just select the menu's "Save Custom Board" or press Ctrl+S at the game end. You may rename the saved ABF file to the MBF if needed.

Else, you seem to beat my 86 sec record? what are your inter and beginner times?

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Aug 26th 2005 at 12:10:33 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

That's cool, Oli! I was always wondering why is your inter time so high

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 10:48:57 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

@Oli: Congrats!

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 10:30:19 PM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Comments:  

Good work Oli! Same AR too

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 08:14:08 PM
Name:  

Oli

Best intermediate:  

12.60 -> 11.99

Comments:  

34 3bv at 5 am... im glad i stayed up for so long
i'll let robert upload the vid asap
now i'm #2 again without a 1 on beg
oh and 11-43 for AR which is nice too

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 07:10:04 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

89,21 Clone ==> 85,07 Arbiter!!

Best intermediate:  

25x5

Best beginner:  

2x2

Comments:  

I finally got around to downloading Minesweeper Arbiter, and the first expert game that I won was also a personal record, by 4 seconds!!!! Not surprising, considering I have neglected expert for so long. My 5 best expert times are now 85, 89, 93, and 95x2. The 3bv was 143, but the board was VERY nice; if I hadn't done some unnecessary flagging, my time would have been lower. This brings my total to 112. Has a decision been made yet regarding bestever and Arbiter? If so what was it? Anyways, if anyone wants to see the video and/or try the board themselves, email me. (I plan on recreating the board on the clone so I can replay it).
@Christoph: very nice description of the Vienna meeting

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Aug 25th 2005 at 03:21:32 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

I just uploaded the videos from the tourny to my site.

@G: How did you like it?

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Aug 25th 2005 at 03:02:20 PM
Name:  

Nick

Comments:  

oops, didn't know all those times were going to get posted...

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 03:01:10 PM
Name:  

Nick

Best expert:  

80

Best intermediate:  

28

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

On the website where you can play minesweeper for money, do you have to become a member before you can play minesweeper at all? Because I can't find the game anywhere on the site...

-Nick

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Aug 25th 2005 at 11:21:40 AM
Name:  

G

Comments:  

I tested it with Opera 8.0

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 10:29:31 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Damien: The pic should work now, it was damaged in a very rare way. It could be displayed on the localhost but not via internet, thatwhy I didn't recognise the error earlier.
@AreOut: Do you get any error, just a blank page or a grey page with two green rectangles on the left side?
I tested the page with Mozilla 1.7.2, IE 6.0, IE 5.?, Konquestor and Firefox. Do you use Netscape 4.x? Imho the best browser is the Mozilla Firefox, I linked it below.

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Aug 25th 2005 at 06:37:30 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Talking about NF-King... I got a 3.89 on int yesterday. 24,12sec / 90 3bv

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 05:19:49 AM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

@Detrusor: I don't know if I'm the only one who's having problems with the clone rankings but there certainly seems to be something very odd going on. I wanted to check out the 'non-flagging king' list (because that's where I'm best) only to discover that there was ONE name only in that list and it was some French guy who had a total of less than 10 3bv/s (as far as I remember...) I just uploaded my clone history so hopefully that will put me in front of that guy!

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Aug 25th 2005 at 03:20:03 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

everything works for me, christoph, except the first pic...great write-up!

   
Aug 25th 2005 at 02:14:48 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Your site. I cant load it.

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Aug 24th 2005 at 02:48:56 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@AreOut: What doesn't work?

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Aug 24th 2005 at 01:37:59 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Doesnt work...

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Aug 24th 2005 at 11:53:38 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

I just updated my website. So you can find some more details about the Tourny there. I also added a Meeting Ranking and included Damiens report about the tourny in Budapest.
@tourny participiants:
1. Would be great if also one of you would write something about your trip to vienna. I'd like to have a second or third report on my site.
2. I hope, you haven't washed the T-shirts yet. I washed one of mine with 40° that wasn't a good idea for colors of the logo so switch down to 30°.
@all: It's very likely that there will be a Vienna International MineSweeper Meeting 2006 next summer. If you've already plans for then, there should be enougth time to coordinate from now on

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Aug 24th 2005 at 09:15:47 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

I finally found (again) a stable host for my Arbiter site.
Minesweeper Arbiter 0.41 is available at

http://home.ripway.com/2005-8/397712/

Nice link... but the main that it works. You may check out all new features at the main and at the version history pages.

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Aug 24th 2005 at 08:55:39 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

The previous AR site link was messed up, so here is the good one.

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Aug 24th 2005 at 08:52:29 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

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

Remember that the AR has changed. You no longer send your times via email to the AR hotmail account. Instead you need to follow the link provided to go to the new AR site and do enter your times there using your personal password. If you don't know your password you need to email Detrusor. His address is Detrusor at gmail dot com.

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Aug 23rd 2005 at 09:24:00 PM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

hi all! i am back. just found smth wrong with my site

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Aug 23rd 2005 at 11:09:37 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Thx Ralph... You still got a second on me tho'

Anyway I just broke my 3BV/s record on exp with a 83,86 on a 218, giving me a 3BV/s of 2,63. Which means I broke the 10 total

4,26 + 3,13 + 2,63 = 10,02

   
Aug 23rd 2005 at 08:26:54 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Best intermediate:  

15

Comments:  

Wow! Today I got an incredible 16.67 on a 36 3BV board, giving 2.30 3BV/s!

Some stats:
- it's my second best ever time on int (best is 15.54 on a 26 3BV board)
- it's my second faster sub-20 (best is 19.09 on a 48 3BV board, giving 2.65 3BV/s, NF)
- it's my most efficient sub-20 (40 clicks, NF)
- the last time I sub-20'ed was on May 5th 2005, with an 18
- Now I've got 15, 16, 4x17, 4x18, 9x19, 38x20 on the clone. And also some other sub-20's on the MS version, but I don't keep record of them. Although I clearly remember two 17s, at least.

I got very happy, because I haven't been playing that much lately, and almost exclusively expert. Nice to know I'm still in shape on int too!

Good sweeping everyone!

   
Aug 23rd 2005 at 01:16:23 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Comments:  

@Rasmus - congrats - good to see you didnt let me keep my breathing space for very long!

@Arjadre - the clone is limited to stop boards with a 3bv too low. The limits are designed to be the same as the original Microsoft version. I think the intermediate limit is around 18 3bv ish

   
Aug 23rd 2005 at 01:12:44 AM
Name:  

Herman grue

Best expert:  

90

Best intermediate:  

31

Best beginner:  

4

Comments:  

Hello everybody, is my records good?
i wonder how I can send in my records so that i can join the world rankings....
i think my records are god enough..
wll, do you?

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Aug 22nd 2005 at 08:13:47 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

Sorry about the overposting! Looking through my records, it seems I have 5 25s on int, not 4 as I previously posted...

Just curious: although it's extremely unlikely, it's possible that a 1 3bv board may occur on the intermediate level on the clone because of random generation. If this were to occur, would, and should the 1sec score count?

   
Aug 22nd 2005 at 04:34:48 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best beginner:  

2,65 ==> 2,20

Comments:  

2,2 on a 2 board (8x8 clone). Why couldn't it be a 1? I need a 1 3bv board- they never let you down... Mine arrangement:

x 2 - - - 1 x x
x 3 1 - - 1 3 x
3 x 1 - - - 1 1
x 3 1 - - - - -
x 2 - - - 1 2 2
1 1 - - - 1 x x
- - - - - 1 2 2
- - - - - - - -

   
Aug 22nd 2005 at 12:31:03 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

If someone want to improve the sudoku times, I have a little tip:

I call the 3x3 squares "boxes". Consider the three boxes to the left first. These form a unit where every number must occur three times. Start with number 1, and try to find the units where you already have two of three 1s placed. You can determine the box and the row where the last 1 must be. There are still three possibilities, but hopefully you can eliminate two of them. There are three horizontal and three vertical units. When you are finished placing 1s, proceed with 2s and so on. On the easiest boards, this technique should be enough to finish the entire board. Sometimes you have to repeat this technique when you have finished placing the 9s, because there were some numbers you couldn't place the first time. When you don't get further with this technique, you need to try something more advanced.

   
Aug 22nd 2005 at 12:16:36 PM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

My best Sudoku-score on easy is 2.36. I had a bit of training before I tried this site, though. I had to use more than 50 minutes the first time on evil. I consider using the "how am I doing"-button to be cheating of course

   
Aug 22nd 2005 at 11:21:09 AM
Name:  

gilot

Best expert:  

68

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

Hi all...:-)
I want to download the program named "Minesweep Clone", but I can't connect to the offcial website(http://www.geocities.com/minesweeperclone/).
could anyone please email the program to me?
very much thank you for ur helping :-)

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Aug 22nd 2005 at 12:12:50 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best intermediate:  

25x3 ==> 25x4

Comments:  

25,29 on a 41 board- best time on clone. Could have easily been a 23 if I hadn't spent 2,5 seconds flagging a group of mines and trying to find empty spaces within the group. Today I also got my 2nd and 3rd best times on 8x8 clone beginner (3,17 and 3,24), set a new 3bv/s record for beginner (3,47) and set a new clone 3bv/s record (2,42) for int. (My overall int 3bv/s record is between 2,56 and 2,63- 39 on a 100 while the counter wasn't working) Still neglecting expert...

   
Aug 21st 2005 at 09:06:38 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

72,07 ====> 71,54

Comments:  

Finally... Last click was a 50/50... 3BV 163 so I guess I f'ed up my rule again =)

   
Aug 20th 2005 at 07:25:20 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

Interesting clone glitch... I saved a 5,32 second beginner video because of good efficiency (12 clicks on a 10 board), but when I replay the video, it shows a game, probably on the same board (I can't be sure whether it's the same board, but it has the same 3bv), lost on the second click, after 1,31 seconds. In addition, the timer jumps to 5,3 at the end of the video. Does anyone have any idea why this happened? My personal guess (which is probably wrong) is that there is some sort of cycle system in the clone and that this was the second time I played the board, after losing the same board on the second click the first time I played it, and that the video of the first game was somehow attached to that board, and was saved when I played that board the second time and saved the video... Does anyone have any other ideas?
E-mail me if you want to see the video.

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Aug 20th 2005 at 01:31:05 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Best expert:  

3,45 3bv/s

Best intermediate:  

4,25->4,31 3bv/s

Best beginner:  

6,12 3bv/s

Comments:  

...and I even made a few mistakes!

http://www.planete-demineur.com/phpBB2/download.php?id=312

   
Aug 19th 2005 at 09:19:30 AM
Name:  

Gero

Comments:  

I also tried Sudoku a few times. My best on easy: 3min 48s

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Aug 19th 2005 at 08:22:53 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Best intermediate:  

3.06 3bv/s --> 3.12 3bv/s (29.21 on 88bv)

Comments:  

Nearly caught you Rasmus! but not quite.... hee hee

   
Aug 19th 2005 at 07:38:38 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Easy in 5.42... But yeah you're right, they do vary a lot.

   
Aug 18th 2005 at 07:08:53 PM
Name:  

Oli

Best intermediate:  

12.74 -> 12.60

Comments:  

39 3bv

   
Aug 18th 2005 at 11:08:56 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

sudoku is very popular and free in all the newspapers in britain (the craze started a few months ago)...i've done a few dozen over the last month. great site! i did easy in 8:20, but boards vary a lot! thanks for the link.

   
Aug 18th 2005 at 09:20:47 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Anyone heard of Sudoku? Just heard about it yesterday and I'm already hooked. Simple numbers game but quite a challenge...

www.websudoku.com

My best are 12 minutes on easy and 26 on medium...

   
Aug 18th 2005 at 05:13:07 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

congrats to patrick and stevan.

dion. 200 sub-15's means for the first time, someone can beat ALL my intermediate stats. i tried to do some catching up last night, and got five 14's, but i still need another 80 games to tie you.

i just bought the ad-free version of the gb again....it used to only be one or two ads, but 4 pop-ups is ridiculous. still, if anyone knows a decent (free) gb host, i'd like to know!

   
Aug 17th 2005 at 05:05:03 PM
Name:  

Patrick

Comments:  

Seems pretty sad compared to all these >4.00 3BV's but I just got a new all-time best 3BV for expert 2.83!!

   
Aug 17th 2005 at 12:24:24 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Best intermediate:  

12 -> 12x3

Comments:  

This time on clone, on a 26 3bv board, 2,23 3BV/s, should be easy 11 but I as always made one more move at the end...

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Aug 17th 2005 at 08:36:12 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

72x2 ----> 72x3

Comments:  

Congratulations Ralph...

Ahead of me again =(

   
Aug 16th 2005 at 07:59:14 AM
Name:  

ryan

Best beginner:  

6

Comments:  

I just started playing in the last month and am really happy to be lucky enough to score a 6 on beginner level. Do you need video verification for that record to stand or is your word good enough after just e-mailing the basic info to damien?
And to the rest of you, you guys are amazing. I don't think I will ever be as good as you guys and don't think it is even possible.

   
Aug 16th 2005 at 12:59:34 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

I think this is the new expert 3bv/s world record Dion. Congrats

   
Aug 16th 2005 at 12:31:18 AM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Best expert:  

4.27 3BV/s -> 4.49 3BV/s

Comments:  

Exactly 50.00s, on a 220 3BV board.

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Aug 15th 2005 at 05:44:38 PM
Name:  

Dan

Comments:  

Just a reminder that the Active Ranking has been updated and the site address has changed slightly to:

http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/active-ranking.php

You can also click on the link at the bottom of this post.

If you missed it Detrusor has more info about the new Active Ranking system in a post down the page from a couple days ago.

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Aug 15th 2005 at 05:13:40 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Best expert:  

73.56 --> 71.37 (146 3bv)

Comments:  

This came out of nowhere - first expert game after playing a few int games

congrats to Dion and Oli

   
Aug 15th 2005 at 03:05:19 AM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Best intermediate:  

11.96 -> 11.92

Comments:  

My third 11, on a 43 3BV board!
I also missed another 11 on the last click today. I've been playing much better on int than exp these days.

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Aug 15th 2005 at 01:01:53 AM
Name:  

Jon S

Comments:  

The tournament in Vienna was great. I don't understand why there wasn't more participants. I want to cogratulate Oli with his birthday, and wish everyone happy sweeping.

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Aug 15th 2005 at 12:40:42 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@damien: I really missed competition

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Aug 14th 2005 at 03:30:36 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

i've been checking all day for your post: congrats oli...good thing i didn't show (so i didn't get beaten!). would have been fun to battle christoph for last place in nonosweeper.

   
Aug 14th 2005 at 03:08:45 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

Oliver Scheer is the winner of the MineSweeper Meeting in vienna. You'll find the results on my page. More information will come soon.

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Aug 14th 2005 at 01:16:57 PM
Name:  

Ralph

Comments:  

woops - what i should have said was an extra 1 bv/s to match Damien's EXPERT 3bv/s record....

   
Aug 14th 2005 at 01:14:14 PM
Name:  

Ralph

Best intermediate:  

2.99 3bv/s --> 3.06 3bv/s (30.73 on a 92 3bv board)

Comments:  

Finally cracked that 3bv/s barrier, only an extra 2 bv/s to go to match Damien's acheivement last week....

got my second ever 20sec int game yesterday too - this one on a 40 bv board so is an improvement....

@ Dion - awesome - looks like your still in the race for that first 10 after all!

   
Aug 14th 2005 at 08:51:05 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Comments:  

Looks great Gregoire...

   
Aug 13th 2005 at 10:55:51 AM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

Hey Detrusor! I'm very happy because, after months, I'm finally able to load your website in my home computer again!! I didn't do anything different, but it loaded, and I loved the new pages.

For those who didn't understand why I am so happy: some months ago, the Planet-Minesweeper site suddenly could not to be loaded on my computer and also on my friends' computers, without any special reason. I thought that Detrusor wanted to ban Brazil from accessing his site, but appearently, this is not the actual reason....

So, guys, you may really feel free to ask me to merge history files, no problem at all, ok? Use the address minesweeperclone@yahoo.com

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Aug 13th 2005 at 09:43:54 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Well done Detrusi

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Aug 13th 2005 at 09:12:07 AM
Name:  

Grégoire Duffez

Comments:  

Hello everyone!

There are two major updates on Planet Minesweeer:
1. the new Active Ranking page is finally released: you can find it here http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/active-ranking.php
Of course, there still remain several errors, especially in statistics page (all datas from old periods aren't included in the database for now, but I'll do it (with the help of several members of my forum)). I hope you'll like it as much as I do

Several rules: times submission will be now with a form on the 'info' page. Please follow the instruction there: not in the list and new to AR => link, already participated in AR => email me
Period 16 won't be updated until Dan will give me the datas

2. you can now upload your history to appear in the clone rankings: http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/class_home.php
Same thing, you MUST email me to get your password, and if you have several history files (you suck!!), you will have to ask Rodrigo fro merging them before. This feature is automatic for database filling, but the rankings will be manually updated (by me), only in several days, once people will have uploaded many histories. (because it's pretty long to do)

Any report of bugs, major errors, english mistakes, or any suggestions would be appreciated... Just email me to tell me that; thanks

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Aug 13th 2005 at 08:28:50 AM
Name:  

Dion Tiu

Comments:  

I made my 200th sub-15 on intermediate today . But had some quite disappointing misses of 10s, 11s. Oh well.

   
Aug 12th 2005 at 09:18:50 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best intermediate:  

25x3 ==> 25x4

Comments:  

Yet another 25... 25,96 on a 43 board... I think I'm starting to feel sick...

   
Aug 12th 2005 at 10:19:57 AM
Name:  

Patrick

Best expert:  

58 => 58x2

Comments:  

It seems that I can only get high scores on public computers where I dont use the clone =( so no vid. But nonetheless it was some good sweeping. Hopefully I can get a low score of mine recorded someday

   
Aug 12th 2005 at 09:15:39 AM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

89

Best intermediate:  

25

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@Matthew: Congratulations... It's sad to see you retire so soon...
@AC: Very nice improvement! If I remember correctly, my first exp game was well over 600 (660ish, I think).
@All: Check out the link to see the latest on Irene, Fernanda, and Greg!

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Aug 12th 2005 at 09:14:36 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

Ok, here is another Vienna update: Oli and I are at the university with Christoph again to prepare for tomorrow's tournament.
While I was playing some intermediate on original MS, I got a 13 all of a sudden (my record is 15). It turned out to be a variation of the dreamboard, only 1 mine shifted. Quite funny. Unfortunately, DB scores are not accepted anymore.
Vienna is definitely a very beautiful city. It's worth visiting imho.
So much for now.
Cya
Robert

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Aug 12th 2005 at 08:13:50 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Best expert:  

73

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

@AC - congrats - my first exp was well over 300 secs too if i remember...

@everyone at the tourny - have fun and good luck! i'd like to be there to see some of you guys sweep, and also to see the city of vienna, but theres no way i could have made it

   
Aug 12th 2005 at 07:18:30 AM
Name:  

AC

Comments:  

Yeah~Lucky~!!
Just got another expert game completed, using 178 sec~~~
Yeah~~~~

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Aug 12th 2005 at 05:05:28 AM
Name:  

AC

Best expert:  

211

Best intermediate:  

45

Best beginner:  

7

Comments:  

I found that my first expert is better than my first intermedia!! My first intermedia took me 299 sec to finish
And now my intermedia is better than my first beginner-64 sec
There is still a long way to go, and seeing the improvement is one of the motive power (the rest is just for "fun"!! )

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Aug 11th 2005 at 09:34:55 PM
Name:  

Matthew

Best expert:  

71

Best intermediate:  

25

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Finally broke below 100 Playing beg over and over again is not fun at all, too much luck needed However, I can now retire with a sum of 98

Minesweeper hope to see you again one day

@AC: Congrats, my first expert was 300+

   
Aug 11th 2005 at 09:25:27 PM
Name:  

PhilJ

Comments:  

Not bad, AC. I've had a lot of sub 150 exp's, but 211 is still not a terrible score for me. You gotta play a lot of slow ones for every decent one. It's just a matter of persistence and luck.

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Aug 11th 2005 at 07:13:49 PM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

Congrats, AC! That's already better than my first expert score!

   
Aug 11th 2005 at 05:17:21 PM
Name:  

You Realize

Comments:  

33+66=99 not 100

   
Aug 11th 2005 at 02:34:51 AM
Name:  

AC

Comments:  

Finally!!I complete my first exp game!!
Although I spent 211 sec on it, at least I have completed an exp game!!!
Yeah~~Party Time~!!!

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Aug 10th 2005 at 10:10:36 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best intermediate:  

25,43 ==> 25,14

Comments:  

...on a 51 board. Maybe the intermediate record-breaking range should be <55 3BV, rather than <50.

I've really been neglecting expert level; I am determined to lower my int score and get a 1 on beginner. I did, however try to complete an expert n/f game... I lost an estimated 144 on the second-to-last click, but that was as close as I got.

@Matthew- Congrats on your record; dropping 10 seconds in three weeks is quite an accomplishment. If you play beginner (preferably non-flagging) for a day or two, you'll probably break your record and get into the world ranking.

   
Aug 10th 2005 at 08:33:54 AM
Name:  

Active Ranking

Comments:  

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

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Aug 10th 2005 at 02:20:45 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

Comments:  

Yopa
It's unbelievable but Oli and I have arrived in
Vienna this morning and are just with Christoph Marx at the university.
You no longer have to worry that we won't make it to the tournament.
We're looking forward to meeting the other sweepers on saturday.
Have a nice time.
Robert

   
Aug 10th 2005 at 02:12:10 AM
Name:  

Ralph

Best expert:  

73

Comments:  

Just finished my first exp NF game - 178secs (*cough!*) on a 192 3bv board... still, i'm pleased to have managed it

can anyone send me the vid of Lukaz 4.39 3bv/s exp game cos that sounds awesome...

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Aug 9th 2005 at 10:01:26 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Im 4.07 so only 2 days to get ahead of me

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Aug 9th 2005 at 12:12:24 AM
Name:  

Roman Gammel

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Damien, you need only 34 days to beat Lukasz's 4.39

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 01:00:04 PM
Name:  

damien

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after my 4.05 bv/s yesterday, i just got a 4.06 on a 230 board.

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 10:52:57 AM
Name:  

Robert Benditz

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I'm a sub60 expert player, thus I can't be wrong!

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 08:25:33 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

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Perhaps sporadic was the wrong word but I still say that 50/50 games are a minority. 33/66 sure a lot of those but most times you can just jump to another place on the board and work your way towards the 33/66 and solve it that way. Or perhaps you're talking about another kind of 33/66? The shut in ones where you have to pick one? If that's the case I think they are even fewer in numbers than 50/50.

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 06:19:09 AM
Name:  

AC

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Wow~
Thx for all the answers~!
I didnt think I would get many responses
but people here(in this gb, and in this "field")are so enthusiastic~~
thx you all~~~

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Aug 8th 2005 at 04:05:11 AM
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Robert Benditz

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"There's the occasional 50/50 but if you start 200 games a day they are sporadic."

I suppose if you start 200 games a day you will have to get by at least 200 50/50s or 33/66s.

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 03:27:18 AM
Name:  

damien

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i'm really sorry about all the ads in this guestbook! bravenet used to allow me to remove them a month at a time for $5, but now the only option is 54 for a year (i can't afford a lump sum at the moment). does anyone know a good, customisible guestbook out there? i'd be interested

   
Aug 8th 2005 at 02:45:22 AM
Name:  

WP

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I'd say that you don't have to worry about how much time you take to complete your first expert board. Just take all the time you want, you'll still feel great when you complete it. And after that you can start playing speed because you know you've got what it takes to finish, and that if you do, it'll surely be faster than your first one.^_^ Good luck!

   
Aug 7th 2005 at 01:10:25 PM
Name:  

PhilJ

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k about it!

Primative editor! 2Kb post limit! %$#^%%$&^$

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Aug 7th 2005 at 01:03:04 PM
Name:  

PhilJ

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AC,
If your goal is to complete an expert game, you shouldn’t care how many times you get blown. Unlike a cat, you have thousands of lives, so waste a few. Your time is limited; so don’t waste it on one game unless it looks like a winner.

If you immediately follow your first opening, there’s a 99% chance that it will reach a dead end. Then you’ll have to punt—make wild guesses until you find another opening. Your second opening has a 90% chance of reaching a dead end. Playing this way, you invest a lot of time in each game, and getting blown up really hurts. So it’s much better to do all your punting at the start.

I’m not the fastest sweeper here, but my strategy may be helpful:

I start in the upper left corner and move as fast as I can the upper right. On the way, I click 2 or 3 squares in row 2. If I hit a 1 in row 2, I click the adjacent edge square; if that’s a 1, I can safely click 3 squares in row 3 to form a T.

If, I have two large or three medium openings, widely seperated, I start right-clicking and follow each opening until it is played out. Otherwise, I continue punting toward the lower right, and then the lower left. If I still haven’t got enough openings, I punt randomly in the middle. I get blown up 20 to 50 times before I begin to actually “play” a game. Those false starts are not failures; it’s not a game until I set my first flag.

As I said, I follow each opening until it is played out; then I follow another opening. Once I’ve left one area, I don’t go back to it until another opening leads me there. If all my openings are played out, I punt without hesitating, and without going back where I’ve already given up.

In some spots, knowing how many mines are left can eliminate guessing; save that spot for last. Other times, you know you will have to guess, and nothing will change that. In that situation, you may save the guess for last, or you may guess immediately; what you must not do is thin

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Aug 7th 2005 at 11:41:56 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

Best expert:  

2,52 -----> x2 3bv/s

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D*mn! 77,96 on a 194...

   
Aug 7th 2005 at 08:37:36 AM
Name:  

Rasmus H. Jensen

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Grats Damien, Arjádre and Matthew. Impressive jump you made there I screwed up on the last click of a would-have-been 71 yesterday, not even a guess situation.

>AC< There's actually not that many guesses. Most of the time you can predict where the mines are just by looking at the numbers as a whole. There's the occasional 50/50 but if you start 200 games a day they are sporadic. So yeah, it's just a matter of experience. Learn the patterns and you'll have no trouble completing a game.

   
Aug 6th 2005 at 10:35:05 PM
Name:  

AC

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Is it true that it requires experiences to complete an expert one?
There are guesses everywhere
Sometimes I really want to burn my computer when there are only two left and I get it wrong

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Aug 6th 2005 at 10:12:14 PM
Name:  

Matthew

Best expert:  

71

Best intermediate:  

25

Best beginner:  

4

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81 -> 71 expert out of no where. 100 total now, almost in the world ranking

   
Aug 6th 2005 at 04:06:47 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best intermediate:  

25,93==>25,43

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...on a 43 3BV board. Also got another 2xp (2,53) on a 3 3BV board.

   
Aug 6th 2005 at 02:46:20 PM
Name:  

damien

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i have finally accomplished one of my 5 reamining minesweeper goals before i retire....i just got a 4.05 bv/s on expert (54 on a 219 board). not that important to everyone else, as at least 5 people beat me to it :)

and, last night i lost at 37 and est 39...very beautiful board, but the last corner had too many guesses...probably would have been a 42-ish.

(other goals: 10 on int, sub-40 expert, #1 in the world for one day, and 5.00bv/s on int...so, i will be around for another ten years

   
Aug 6th 2005 at 07:32:21 AM
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Robert Benditz

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What a messed up hotel that must be

   
Aug 6th 2005 at 07:11:28 AM
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Aug 5th 2005 at 07:02:33 PM
Name:  

AC

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Thx you two for answering my q~~
Ill try and improve~~
hope I can put my name at the World Records somday~~

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Aug 5th 2005 at 10:09:26 AM
Name:  

PhilJ

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If you can't finish an expert game, the problem may be ADD ; you just can't remain focused for 3 minutes straight. Do you have that problem in school? I don't want to recommend chemicals; you might try meditation, instead. For that matter, I think of minesweeper as a form of meditation. When you get past the need to think each move thru, it's simply a matter of keeping extraneous thoughts out of your mind.

P.S.: My kitty has ADD, too; she just can't get enough attention!

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