Minesweeper
<div class="IPBDescription">what are your best times?</div> Man. don't tell anyone, but i just started playing this game yesterday, and all the years of dissing my sister of playing this *** game have washed away. forgive me! /bows down to the minesweeper god. this game is so addicting.
damn it, i can't host screenshots. but meh. my lousy best time for the small grid one is 15-24 seconds, and that's using the laptop synaptic pad! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I don't know, but at first this game can be very confusing.
damn it, i can't host screenshots. but meh. my lousy best time for the small grid one is 15-24 seconds, and that's using the laptop synaptic pad! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I don't know, but at first this game can be very confusing.
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Beginner: 3 seconds*
Intermediate: 23 seconds
Expert: 155 seconds (I think. I never did Expert for speed; completing it is hard enough)
* Beginner time is pretty much pure luck. You have to get a layout that quickly clears most of the board, and then only a couple clicks get you victory. My best times with less lucky setups varied from 6-10 seconds.
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On a side note, much fun can be had altering the rules slightly. As you hopefully figured out,
LMB turns over a mine
RMB lays a flag
both together turns over all adjacent squares.
The way I play (to which I attribute my times) is to not use the RMB at all. Keep the flags in your brain. It's more challenging and IMO faster.
Intermediate: 47 (it might be 49, it's one of the 2)
Expert: 135
For the longest time I didn't understand the game. I thought the numbers represented points, rather than useful information.
Edit: <a href='http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/videos/LasseNyholm43-1.avi' target='_blank'>Here</a> is a video clip of someone beating Expert in 43 seconds. You need TechSmith Screen Capture Codec to play it (which you could get a free trial of 8 months ago).
Beginner: 3 seconds*
Intermediate: 23 seconds
Expert: 155 seconds (I think. I never did Expert for speed; completing it is hard enough)
* Beginner time is pretty much pure luck. You have to get a layout that quickly clears most of the board, and then only a couple clicks get you victory. My best times with less lucky setups varied from 6-10 seconds.
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On a side note, much fun can be had altering the rules slightly. As you hopefully figured out,
LMB turns over a mine
RMB lays a flag
both together turns over all adjacent squares.
The way I play (to which I attribute my times) is to not use the RMB at all. Keep the flags in your brain. It's more challenging and IMO faster. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I would be about on par with coil. Woot! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Beginner: 3 seconds*
Intermediate: 23 seconds
Expert: 155 seconds (I think. I never did Expert for speed; completing it is hard enough)
* Beginner time is pretty much pure luck. You have to get a layout that quickly clears most of the board, and then only a couple clicks get you victory. My best times with less lucky setups varied from 6-10 seconds.
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On a side note, much fun can be had altering the rules slightly. As you hopefully figured out,
LMB turns over a mine
RMB lays a flag
both together turns over all adjacent squares.
The way I play (to which I attribute my times) is to not use the RMB at all. Keep the flags in your brain. It's more challenging and IMO faster. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
If your playing for speed you need to use double button click alot, and double button click doesn't turn over flags, so you can get alot more speed if you flag a known mine and double click the locations around it real fast. (Your right, your way is fun, I'm just saying that it's not the best way to play for speed)
And I agree, you can usually clear alot more if you flag them in most circumstances, it sometimes slows you down but the value of knowing how many mines are left when you've got a small box is far higher then the small amount of seconds you save on the odd mine.
Screenshots don't really count as anyone can edit the txt file in the windows folder (I had to after my brother maliciously reset my times to upset me)
From what I've seen, this shouldn't be possible. The first click should always be a valid move.
I just wanted to have finished Minesweeper on all levels <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I also use flags because of how much easier they make the simultaneous-click, but I know people can get fast times either way. Is there a trick or something to clearing an area when you haven't marked any flags?
I also use flags because of how much easier they make the simultaneous-click, but I know people can get fast times either way. Is there a trick or something to clearing an area when you haven't marked any flags? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's one of the things that makes it more challenging; you can't do the simultaneous click, because it requires having all surrounding mines identified. But you seldom have to click more than 3 squares to get the same effect.
Once you've identified and flagged all mines around a given square (placed two flags around a "2", four around a "4," etc.), you can click both the LMB and RMB simultaneously on that square (the number) to reveal all squares around it.
When you play without flagging, of course, you can't do that because you never place flags.