Minesweeper: sport of kings.

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This game has consumed far too much of my time lately. I can't beat the expert level for the life of me though. Whenever I'm forced to guess I always make the wrong choice. Oh if I could see those shades but one more time!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't happy until I broke 199 on Expert. Now I am at one with the cool shades.
(I had a boring summer job)

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

you know about the left/right click technique, right? i.e. if you have flagged a square as a mine, and that square has, for example, a "1" next to it, then you put the cursor over the "1" and click the left and right mouse buttons at the same time. This will automatically clear out all the squares around the mine that cannot be mines, which saves you tons of time. But if you've flagged the wrong square as a mine and then click both buttons, it'll try and clear out the wrong squares and you'll die.

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That explains why a TWAT I know of says he can do it in 53 seconds. I imagine it takes him that long because he is a TAWT.

― Badger (Badger), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

53 seconds is surely a twat time.

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

53 seconds is pure luck.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, you obviously haven't wasted large enough portions of your life playing minesweeper yet.

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, now I'm depressed.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, you might just have to resign yourself to the fact that you'll never experience the levels of respect, fame, wealth, power, and sex that come to those that can get faster than 53 seconds in minesweeper.

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, now I don't feel so bad!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

God. I was SO CLOSE. Why couldn't I see that 1???

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My best time in Minesweeper on Expert is 47 seconds, if I recall correctly.

I blame 15 years of near-constant computer use. (I'm 20 years old)

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I got an incredibly good minefield.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember once thinking that I was hot shit with my intermediate score of 90 seconds.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

andrew, 47 on EXPERT?! Not intermediate?

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Expert, bitches.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI.

http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/subworldrecordsexpert.html

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy what in the fuck! I'm up there in the top 3 or something! I never realised.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That site has videos of the winning scores. Impressive stuff.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 5 January 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!!!

― Shep, Monday, 5 January 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, at last I've heard of better scores than mine - my best was a now-mediocre sounding 66 seconds on expert level. I'm not going to try to get back into improving it because I have a clunky mouse at home at the moment.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 5 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the highest number of random clicks you have made in an expert screen before encountering a mine?

My "record" is 30.

― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I could never be bothered to learn minesweeper so I stuck to the random click method. Not that I've played it for years.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 January 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My enjoyment of Minesweeper is forever ruined by the fact that I learnt to falsify my score before I knew how to play it. :(

So now I just try and complete it without marking any mines, which is far more fun.

― cis (cis), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

My enjoyment of Minesweeper is forever ruined by the fact that I learnt to falsify my score before I knew how to play it.

You can? How? (Not saying I will, just curious.....really.....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

*cough*winmine.ini*cough*

― cis (cis), Monday, 5 January 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

1 second on easy?! That can't be right! My personal best is 6.

― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

520 seconds! I'm progressing.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I must be mistaken. I've just been watching the videos of 44-second attempts at Expert and I don't remember ever being that fast. I must be confusing Expert with Intermediate... although I'm pretty sure I'm not. Hrmm.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to say that I know a cheat for another Wingame, but since I'm genuinely good at it, I don't want to say in hopes that my upcoming recordbreaker is pure.

― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

There was some way to clear the entire field in the Windows 3.1 version so you could win with fractional time. I don't think that'd count for the world records though.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 January 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If you hold down the left and right mouse buttons, press Esc twice, and release the mouse buttons the timer will stop and you will be free to finish your game at a leisurely pace.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That guy with the stupid quick times, looking at his video the mouse movements seem to be very ordered like he's using a keyboard/joypad to mouse program.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it back, he's just good.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

1 second on easy?! That can't be right! My personal best is 6.

Its called luck, you click once and then randomly click somewhere else and it clears the whole board.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

B-B-But even if you cleared all but the 10 squares with the first click, you'd still have to mark the other 10 remaining squares as having mines, so that'd be a minimum 11 mouse clicks. I don't believe it can be done by anyone not called Steve Austin or D.A.R.Y.L.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave, you don't have to mark the mines, just clear the non-mined squares.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah surely none of the low scorers mark their mines

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

So uh, does anyone else just set it at the highest board size, but with only 10 mines? One and two second victories!!!

(my thrills come cheap)

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 22 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about stealing other people's drinks at parties and the like. I'm a bit disappointed.

― hmmmm, Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought nicking other people's drinks at parties was called dreadnoughting?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

'Minesweeping' in my village. Perhaps I will try to turn it into a sport although the chances of kings getting involved will have to be delayed at least until Wills takes the throne. I would also need to be invited to some parties...

― hmmm, Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My records;

Beginner: 6 secs
Intermediate: 38 secs
Expert: 88 secs

My skills were honed through 3 years of dial-up internet access and long periods waiting for web pages to load. I remember getting under a minute on intermediate the first time was such an event in my adolescence. I was so proud.

I don't believe it's possible to do 1 second on beginner, because when you click the first square, the clock ticks over to 1 instantaneously, so a 1 second clearance would be under a second, rather than under 2 seconds.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 22 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's possible to get a 1 second clearance on expert, just highly unlikely. The odds are not astronomically against an instant win on beginner level, given how many people play it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

In Windows 8, minesweeper has ACHIEVEMENTS and an ADVENTURE MODE and SKINS and DAILY CHALLENGES which are actually quite fun. Oh and ads.

― JimD, Sunday, 11 November 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago)

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