Minesweeper is great for killing time, I love it.

but now I'm into Spider Solitaire, that's good stuff

Holy Lord, Night13, I apologize for awakening this demon in you again.

Minesweeper is a damn hard game, but its possible to beat it :)

I was never really any good at it. I could only win the custom games of the fewest blocks available.

Beginner - 8s
Advanced - 37s
Expert - 151s (crappy, I know)

I know what you guys are talking about with the playing it without playing it. Any time I play Freecell, Solitaire, Tetris, Dr. Mario, DDR, or Minesweeper too much, I close my eyes and visualize the cards or pieces.

Minesweeper is my nemesis. I try to play it about once a month, and I'm no good at it, no matter how you slice it.

I'm not a doctor, but I reccomend anybody who participates in this threat to stay far away from any gateway drugs.

I'm actually horrible at minesweeper, I never sat down to learn it. If I have free time, I play solitare, which I'm also rather poor at. :hmm:

I have never really seriously played minesweeper, and sucked at it when I did attempt it. I am the kind of person that does not install those when infectin....uh installing a MS OS on my system.
the only thing of that nature that ever got my time was majhong (usually a MS-DOS version)

I wasted some time with minesweeper.

more with freecell through.

my wife is awesome at minesweeper, but I am way better at baseball, so it all works out!

I play from time to time, scores are pretty crap though.

Beginner - 7
Intermediate - 44
Expert - 123

beginner - 4 seconds (fluke)

intermediate - 34

expert - I forget

but I am by no means obsessed with the game.

Some of you guys are nuts! I had always thought my expert time of 147 was absolutely incredible until I just read all of this.

I enjoy mine sweeper but there's just something about it that my brain can't wrap around. My best time are no where near ya'lls :)

Inspired by some of these posts, I just beat Expert for the first time. 131 doesn't seem too bad.

the minesweeper in the latest messenger is hella addictive since u can play online against your friends...i am officially hookedddd

I used to think I was good at minesweeper. I'd play a few hours of it in school every week. Then I found this page, with videos of people playing the game. Now, I realise I am nothing.

If you want to see somebody finish the expert level in 43 seconds, give this page a look.

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

(you'll need to install the codex at the top of the page before you can see the videos.)

Great time waster
 

If you want to really chew up some time try this:

I call it the Game Chain (real creative, I know)

Play all the standard games on your computer in a row. Example: Solitaire, Minesweeper, Freecell, Hearts

Here are the rules: You MUST beat all the games in a row. If you lose at any point in the game chain you have to go back to the beginning. So in the above example if I got to Freecell and lost, I'd have to go back to Solitaire and start over.

You can add whatever small games your computer has to the chain. And you can put them in any order you want, but once you start the game you have to stick with the chosen order of games. You can also choose whatever level of difficulty (like with minesweeper) you want for the games.

It's simple and it wastes much time.

Time yourself and try to do it faster each time you play. Of course there's always the possibility of it taking forever since there are so many chances to lose. But, hey, that's where the challenge is.

Hrm.. as I recall there is a cheat in minesweeper.. hold down shift? Or maybe it was ctrl + alt + shift. I don't remember exactly. But it makes a single pixel in the upper left corner turn black or white depending if the block under the mouse had a mine or not.

The alacrity of the cursor in that video is simply disturbing.

i dont remember records, i was just happy when i beat the worst it could throw at me

its a rather simple game once you get the hang of it, its simple logic.

Minesweeper has stole many hours of my life.

What I find really amusing, is that when most people see me play, they're all like "Huh? You mean there's actual strategy? I just assumed it was luck."

I mean, really. Shouldn't the numbers give you some hint?

I've got around 30 seconds tolerance for that game