Minesweeper
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Topic: Minesweeper
Posted By: limeyrob
Subject: Minesweeper
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 11:56
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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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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 11:58
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).  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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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:18
I don't do Minesweeper...I'm more of a Spider Solitaire man... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:22
| I choose pretty randomly anyway. |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:35
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!!
 But nothing to get worked up about. It's only a game
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Ricochet wrote:Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:36
Well you would be. Being in your shed an' all
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Posted By: YesFan72
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:39
I never won once at Minesweeper. I prefer sudoku. 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:48
Sudoku is cool, but imagine how cool it would be if there were mines in addition to the numbers. |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 12:50
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Hurrah, I have a life ....
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 01 2008 at 13:06
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Sudoku is great as well. Not too keen on crosswords though |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: October 05 2008 at 17:59
I don't do minesweeper - I have a life!
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: October 05 2008 at 18:14
REAL men play solitary card games My favourite at the moment is FreeCell. Enough of your minesweeper... ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 12 2008 at 14:59
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Minesweeper is a game for dweebs with no friends. Dungeons and Dragons- now there's a game. Hey, at least I have friends.  |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: October 12 2008 at 15:06
Minesweeper pisses me off.  ------------- 
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 12 2008 at 15:07
I have a friend. Don't I Harvey?
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 12 2008 at 16:49
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...
 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. ... haven't quite managed to complete it using that method on any other level yet, but I will.------------- What? |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: October 12 2008 at 18:06
Do it quick! Before it takes over your life. Maybe even the world... ------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 12:29
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Just done the expert game in 296. (Couldn't find an emotican for smug git!)
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 12:44
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^ It's right there next to the credulous emoticon. ------------- What? |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: October 13 2008 at 13:42
O ye of little faith. I am 
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 10:36
FUNNY
FUNNIER Of course I have no idea what y'all talking about, but the Harvey reference was inspired Rob!  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 11:40
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 12:10
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Other. If for example I encounter a situation where it's down to luck, I'll usually look for some grey slots which have a low probability of mines. If there is a line of "1" slots then there'll be few mines in the vincinity. If all the grey slots bordering the open slots have a high density, I usually click a random slot elsewhere. BTW: I'm not playing it often ... but when I install Windows on a PC I'll sometimes play it and try to finish the beginner mode in less than 10 seconds. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 13:22
Everyone's favourite bunny! Of course the Harvey reference was the ONLY bit of this thread I did understand! Shall I leave now and let you boys get on with it? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 13:55
I assumed as much, just used it as an excuse to post the picture ------------- What? |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 13:57
Hah ... 66 seconds for the medium level.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 14:56
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sometimes you have to gamble at that game. this is especially sad if you have found all but 1 bomb, and you have no way to find out which of the last 2 remaining squares that bomb is under -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 16:57
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11 seconds for beginner level ...
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 15 2008 at 22:33
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^You goddamn nerd Mike!
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 03:12
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 03:32
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oh, I only play at increased difficulty: maximum size with 210 bombs. that's a higher percentage of bombs per square than the standard games. extremely difficult that way; sometimes only a guess helps (or not)
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 03:38
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I never choose the wrong one; I always put in "size 99999999999999999999999999" and "bombs 1."
So easy, even I can do it. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 03:43
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You're all nerds damn it, playing this crap........ *says the guy who openly admits to being a member of about 5 forums and posting regularly, and lurking another 10-15 in the same day* I just don't game anymore for some reason:S -------------
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 05:26
| I don't get upset, but having playing Minefield it's confirmed my belief that such things as statistics and chance are a myth, it's pure Murphy, all the way. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 05:39
Even at the highest standard level you usually have to guess at some point ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to:
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 16 2008 at 05:41
yes, unless you are very lucky. but that is rare ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |