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Poll Question: What do you do when choosing a mine is down to luck during a game
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    Posted: October 01 2008 at 11:56
You know what it is like? You use up all your grey cells working out where the mines are located. Then - on some occassions - it is down to pure luck to choose where one, sometimes a pair of mines are located. How do you deal with it?
 
Depends on what mood I am in.
 
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It can't be out of pure luck, since the number you unlock tells you how many bombs are around that cell, so you gotta use logic to figure out where the bomb(s) is (are). Wink

I usually play it, it's fun, but at hard difficulty, I always get in a "dead end", and when it explodes, it happens long time into the game (sometimes close to finishing it) and I get angry.
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I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man...LOL
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I choose pretty randomly anyway.
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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

It can't be out of pure luck, since the number you unlock tells you how many bombs are around that cell, so you gotta use logic to figure out where the bomb(s) is (are). Wink

I usually play it, it's fun, but at hard difficulty, I always get in a "dead end", and when it explodes, it happens long time into the game (sometimes close to finishing it) and I get angry.
 
How I wish I could paste in a screenshot into this reply. But in the true spirit of open debate; I encountered on my next game such a situation. In the very top left hand corner it went something like
 
1 1 B 1 ? 1 1
M2  1 3 ? 3 3
M2  1 M MM2
1 1  1 2  3 22
 
Where B is a blank space, M is a mine and ? is the pot luck choices.
 
I hope you see my point. Which of the ? is it?
 
It is so annoying!! AngryAngryAngry
 
But nothing to get worked up about. It's only a gameSmile
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man...LOL
Well you would be. Being in your shed an' all
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I never won once at Minesweeper. I prefer sudoku. Smile
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Originally posted by YesFan72 YesFan72 wrote:

I never won once at Minesweeper. I prefer sudoku. Smile

Sudoku is cool, but imagine how cool it would be if there were mines in addition to the numbers.
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Sudoku is great as well. Not too keen on crosswords though
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I don't do minesweeper - I have a life!LOL
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man...LOL


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My favourite at the moment is FreeCell. Enough of your minesweeper...
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Minesweeper is a game for dweebs with no friends.  Dungeons and Dragons- now there's a game.

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Minesweeper pisses me off. Angry
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Originally posted by kibble_alex kibble_alex wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man...LOL


REAL men play solitary card games

My favourite at the moment is FreeCell. Enough of your minesweeper...
Spider is an insidious little game and I hate it with a passion. I will delete the .exe from my PC... just after this one last game... Wink
 
I rely 100% on luck when playing Minesweeper and never try and work-out where the mines are - my best score on Beginner level is 4 seconds. Big%20smile ... haven't quite managed to complete it using that method on any other level yet, but I will.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by kibble_alex kibble_alex wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man...LOL


REAL men play solitary card games

My favourite at the moment is FreeCell. Enough of your minesweeper...
Spider is an insidious little game and I hate it with a passion. I will delete the .exe from my PC... just after this one last game... Wink
 
I rely 100% on luck when playing Minesweeper and never try and work-out where the mines are - my best score on Beginner level is 4 seconds. Big%20smile ... haven't quite managed to complete it using that method on any other level yet, but I will.


Do it quick! Before it takes over your life. Maybe even the world...
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Just done the expert game in 296. (Couldn't find an emotican for smug git!)
 
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