Trivia

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This page collects interesting Minesweeper trivia, facts for the truly addicted!

Contents 1 Best Family 2 Other Languages 3 Density 4 Webmaster Birthdays 5 Lowest Beginner 3BV 6 Lowest Intermediate 3BV 7 Lowest Expert 3BV 8 Highest Expert 3BV 9 Age to Sub50 10 Age to Sub40 11 Youngest on World Ranking 12 Longest Time to Break Record 12.1 Expert 12.2 Intermediate 12.3 Beginner 13 Milestones 13.1 10,000 Sub20 13.2 10,000 Sub60 13.3 1000 Sub50 14 Endurance 14.1 1000 Beginner 14.2 1000 Intermediate 14.3 100 Expert 14.4 Sub20

[edit] Best Family

Player:	Scores:	Player:	Scores:	Relation:	Country:	Total:
Robert Farnik Philip Culp Lloyd Rhoads Jeff Gessert Cian O'Sheehan Christoph Nikolaus Emmanuel Brunelliere David Chan	1-12-55 2-16-59 1-15-62 3-18-59 3-20-67 2-14-54 1-12-53 3-24-71	Jan Farnik Peter Culp Edward Rhoads Jenna Gessert Cormac O'Sheehan Andreas Marx Laure Brunelliere Jackson Chan	2-17-74 4-23-65 2-21-73 4-23-73 2-21-72 5-28-86 6-30-92 ?-??-83	Brothers Brothers Brothers Siblings Brothers Brothers Siblings Brothers	Czech Republic USA USA USA Ireland Austria France Canada	161 169 174 180 185 189 194 Unknown

[edit] Other Languages

• Aknakereso - Hungary
• Buscaminas - Mexico, Spain
• Campo Minado - Brazil, Portugal
• Campo Minato - Italy (original title)
• Démineur - France
• Hledání min - Czech Republik
• Miinaharava - Finland
• Mijnenveger - Netherlands
• Minestryger - Denmark
• Minesveiper - Norway
• Minesweeper - Canada, USA, UK
• MineSweeper - Germany
• MS Röj - Sweden (original title)
• Prato Fiorito - Italy (XP version)
• Röj - Sweden (XP version)
• Saolei - China
• Saper - Poland, Russia

[edit] Density

The most mines you can fit on a board is (x-1)(y-1).

[edit] Webmaster Birthdays

Damien Moore (Authoritative Minesweeper) and Gregoire Duffez (Planete Demineur) share the same birthday, 7th March. Gregoire is two years older.

[edit] Lowest Beginner 3BV

Many players have won Beginner games in 1 click, but these games are no longer allowed for official rankings. Versions of Windows before XP had a bug where the timer did not stop sometimes if only 1 click was made.

Early versions of the Clone also made 1 click games, but since Clone2006 the minimum is 2 3bv. (Actually, the minimum is 3 3bv and you only get a 2 3bv if your first click is on a mine and the mine is shifted).

[edit] Lowest Intermediate 3BV

The lowest Winmine board noticed is 23 3bv. Below is a picture from Tom Bradbury (England) on 03 January 2005. James Lange also played a 23 3bv board on 1 Mar 2003.

The lowest 3bv on the Clone was 20 3bv, played by Christoph Nikolaus (Austria) in 2005. Clone2006 only creates boards needing at least 30 clicks.

[edit] Lowest Expert 3BV

The lowest Expert board was 3BV=87, played by Sorin Manea (Romania) in 2002. He lost. Versions of the Clone since Clone2006 do not generate games easier than 3BV=100. The easiest Clone97 game was 3BV=88, lost on the last click by Oliver Scheer (Germany) 08 October 2007 on what would have been a world record of 36 seconds.

[edit] Highest Expert 3BV

The highest Expert board was 3BV=291, played by Andrey Deviatkin (Russia) in 2010. He lost (the picture below is played in UPK mode).

[edit] Age to Sub50

As of 10 Feb 2009, there were 50 players who made an accepted sub50 on Expert. The age is known for 26 players.

The youngest: Thomas Kolar (Austria), age 15 and 334 days.

The oldest: Tian Yi Fang (China), age 30 and 31 days.

[edit] Age to Sub40

As of 23 Jun 2010, there were 7 players who made an accepted sub40 on Expert.

• Youngest: Dion Tiu (Australia), age 17 and 113 days.
• Kamil Muranski (Poland), age 18 and 91 days.
• Ian Fraser (England), age 18 and 299 days.
• Oliver Scheer (Germany), age 19 and 89 days.
• Zhang Shen Jia (China), age 21 and about 1 month.
• Manuel Heider (Germany), age 21 and 298 days.
• Oldest: Damien Moore (Canada), age 27 and 108 days.

(If accepted, Jake Warner USA age 25 and 68 days.)

[edit] Youngest on World Ranking

The youngest ever player to join the current World Ranking is Matthew Rendo of the USA aged 11 years and 8 months. He joined with 2-20-77 on 18 July 2007.

[edit] Longest Time to Break Record

Some people just need more time. Here are some examples of the longest time between new records:

[edit] Expert

• Damien Moore (Canada) - 40 (39.34) on 2005-04-23 to 39 (38.79) on 2010-06-23. 5 years 61 days

[edit] Intermediate

• Tyson Wepperich (USA) - 19 on 2003-07-06 to 18 (17.78) on 2010-06-27. 6 years 356 days
• Andrew Washburn (USA) - 17 on 2003-11-07 to 16 (15.68) on 2009-04-03. 6 years 94 days

[edit] Beginner

• Jonathan Ho (Australia) - 2 on 2004-05-24 to 1 (0.95) on 2010-07-20. 6 years 57 days

[edit] Milestones

[edit] 10,000 Sub20

• Manuel Heider (Germany) on 2007-11-23: 11x5, 12x46, 13x112, 14x366, 15x803, 16x1434, 17x2106, 18x2536, 19x2653.
• Damien Moore (Canada) on 2008-04-03: 11x5, 12x21, 13x91, 14x300, 15x633, 16x1167, 17x2031, 18x2660, 19x3092.

[edit] 10,000 Sub60

• Lasse Nyholm (Denmark) on 2002-11-11.

[edit] 1000 Sub50

• Lasse Nyholm (Denmark) on 2003-03-11. By this date he actually had 1008 Sub50 games.
• Manuel Heider (Germany) on 2010-02-04
• Fritz Löhr (Germany) on 2010-03-09: 40x1, 41x3, 42x8, 43x14, 44x39, 45x77, 46x107, 47x186, 48x234, 49x331.

[edit] Endurance

[edit] 1000 Beginner

• Fritz Löhr (Germany) on 2010-08-03: 1000 games won in 2h 15m 22s.

[edit] 1000 Intermediate

• Manuel Heider (Germany) on 2007-03-01: 1000 games won in 11h 11m.

[edit] 100 Expert

• Fritz Löhr (Germany) on 2009-08-06 and 2009-08-07: 100 games won in 25h 2m 15s.

[edit] Sub20

• Damien Moore (Canada) on 2003-03-22: 204 Sub20 games in exactly 7 hours.
• Manuel Heider (Germany) on 2007-02-28: 239 Sub20 games in one day.