11-06-2003 12:07									#1
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Who can beat my score on expert?

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	11-06-2003 12:10									#2
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Maybe not on expert, but I can cream you on beginer and intermediate.

	11-06-2003 12:11									#3
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You do realise how easy it would be to cheat in this artificial competition you've just created?

quote: Maybe not on expert, but I can cream you on beginer and intermediate.

I dislike them, because they're awfully similar to Starcraft: Click-fest where the one with the best control of mouse and quickest reflexes wins, not the one with the most utilized brain-power.

...and he hasn't shown us his scores yet on those levels, has he?

	11-06-2003 12:12									#4
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another life wasted

	11-06-2003 12:14									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Tuomerehu You do realise how easy it would be to cheat in this artificial competition you've just created?

Yeah, but I figure it's minesweeper, and cheating at minesweeper is just sad

	11-06-2003 12:20									#6
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Pfff. I had less than 120 on expert and even this isnt good enough. I think the world record is 53 or something.

	11-06-2003 12:21									#7
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My best two ever on expert were 54 and 58 seconds.

	11-06-2003 12:38									#8
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Were all the mines lined up around the edges or something? How the hell did you go that fast?

	11-06-2003 12:54									#9
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From my experience, the trick to the really fast scores is not to mark the mines.

	11-06-2003 13:16									#10
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Two handed. I used a mouse in one hand to move around, and a pen tablet in the other to do the actual clicking. The other part is just knowing the patterns and being able to eliminate questionable squares faster. I didn't get any huge breaks from the start, but I did get resolvable patterns almost all the way through, so I only had to guess a couple of times.

No matter what you do, there's a big element of luck, since you can always come down to two squares in a corner with one mine.

	11-06-2003 13:24									#11
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Ooo, Minesweeper. I used to play it a lot 6 years ago

My best is around 90 something, not as good as MtG's, but I only used one hand.

	11-06-2003 13:24									#12
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If you don't mark mines, you can't do the cool clicking with both buttons that opens up all the tiles touching a number with all its mines marked already. Thats how to get speed.

	11-06-2003 13:26									#13
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You say that's your best score but it clearly says Mike so it must be my score!

	11-06-2003 14:04									#14
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A long time ago, Minesweeper (together with Solitary) used to be the only game I had on my PC, and I could play it for days on end when I was really bored...

IIRC my record times are:

Beginner: 3 seconds
Intermediate: 16 seconds
Expert: 86 seconds

Not marking the bombs really holds you back as it forces you to think about which tiles are mines and which aren't -- and thinking is the last thing you need to do with this game...

	11-06-2003 14:24									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus Not marking the bombs really holds you back as it forces you to think about which tiles are mines and which aren't -- and thinking is the last thing you need to do with this game...

One must train one's mind to see the patterns.

	11-06-2003 14:37									#16
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My real name's Anonymous, so you can imagine how much I suck at Minesweeper.

	11-06-2003 14:53									#17
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Anyone can edit the highscore data file for minesweeper under windows 9x. In XP they seem to have hidden it though.

	11-06-2003 14:56									#18
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Grrr - you left the capital for HAMILTON?!?!?!

Must I call Frozzy and Sn00py in here to laugh at you?

And I could never get that Minesweeper cheat to work...

	11-06-2003 15:15									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Grrr Anyone can edit the highscore data file for minesweeper under windows 9x. In XP they seem to have hidden it though.

Why would anybody bother?

	11-06-2003 15:17									#20
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My best scores suck, but I don't play that often. 311 on expert.

	11-06-2003 15:36									#21
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I rarely win at expert, because there is always an element of luch even in late game, and because I'm not automated enough not to think at all when playing minesweeper.

The few times I won at expert, it's a 600+

	11-06-2003 15:37									#22
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quote: Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt Grrr - you left the capital for HAMILTON?!?!?! Must I call Frozzy and Sn00py in here to laugh at you? And I could never get that Minesweeper cheat to work...

Err ... yeah .

Frozzy can't speak ... he's in cambridge ... that's worse .

Meh ... Waikato uni surprisingly had some of the best computer gear for first year comp sci students.

Anyways ... will be back in welly in two weeks ... it'll be all good .

	11-06-2003 17:45									#23
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quote: My best two ever on expert were 54 and 58 seconds.

Ok, gotta ask...
I there ANYTHING you're not good at*, you're presence here isn't doing any wonders for my (others too?) confidence and self-asteem, you hear

* please tell us, so we can point at you and laugh for a change

	11-06-2003 17:46									#24
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quote: And I could never get that Minesweeper cheat to work...

There IS a cheat for minesweeper???

Good to know that I'm not THE most sad person on the internet

	11-06-2003 17:51									#25
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quote: Originally posted by alva quote: My best two ever on expert were 54 and 58 seconds. Ok, gotta ask... I there ANYTHING you're not good at*, you're presence here isn't doing any wonders for my (others too?) confidence and self-asteem, you hear * please tell us, so we can point at you and laugh for a change

Modesty?

	11-06-2003 18:16									#26
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Moderating?

	11-06-2003 18:23									#27
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quote: Originally posted by alva quote: And I could never get that Minesweeper cheat to work... There IS a cheat for minesweeper??? Good to know that I'm not THE most sad person on the internet

Hey! I was just, y'know, interested....

	11-06-2003 19:09									#28
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Didn't mean you but the person who made the cheat (unless that is you of course )

	11-06-2003 19:37									#29
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The minesweeper "cheat" isn't really a cheat. It's just editing the text file that holds the high score table.

	11-06-2003 19:45									#30
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I think there are tools that help you play as well: automatically mark bombs and open tiles that can't contain bombs, etc.

Pretty pathetic indeed if you actually use such tools...