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