Can anyone play Minesweeper???
 

When I first got my computer, I would just log on, and when there was nothing to do, I would play Solitaire, but that bored the hell outta me. So I decided to learn how to play Minesweeper.
Mistake.
I soon figured it out, and now I do it without even thinking. While a webpage is loading, or a song downloads, I just play away. I play that damn game in my head during the day. I shit you not. But the obsession is subsiding now. Its becoming more casual, thank God. But I was just wondering, are there any TFPers out there who can relate to this?
If so, then post your record times, mine are:
Beginner- 5 seconds
Intermediate- 35 seconds
Expert- 103 seconds

Thanks!

You... my fellow TFPer are a freak!

But of course, thats a total overstatement if we ever look at bones....

/me looks at bones
Yep, Yeah, you're not so much the freak I first stated you to be.
I can play it, but I don't get too addicted. When I'm hyper, I might just customize it to the largest size with only 10 mines and win in 1 second which only fuels my psychoness, but thats just me... hehehe

Feel better? ;)

naw not really
man i cant help it, it sucks.

Mega Minesweeper.

It has a setting that:
• Support for games up to 32,767, x 32,767 fields with up to 1,073,676,288 mines.

I was well over 8 hours into such a game....think I got some 15% done. Needless to say the mode is called "Crazy"

woah... I play the new minesweep in the new messenger that's just come out against my GF.. gets interesting at times. hehe.. so I've figured it out.. haven't hand any obsessions tho :P

I had took a programing class my Senior year of High School, There were only 4 of us in there, so we'd just do our programing as a team and finish whatever we were supposed to do within the first 30 minutes of class, which left us over an hour with nothing to do. We downloaded Emulators and would LAN Mario Kart and Street Fighter, until the teacher started deleting everything off the hard drives, so it got to be a hassle re-download everything. So we just started having Minesweeper tournaments. I remember my best time on Intermidate was somewhere around 45-50 seconds.

Back in the lame ol' days, one of my proudest moments was beating expert mindsweeper at 79 seconds. I managed to get it down to 75 once. Sad.

Oh, and I got lucky once on beginner and cleared it in 1 second.

I've done the same thing with solitaire, made it into a speed game. Can't remember my best time off the top of my head though, it was under a minute...

Beginner - 10 seconds.

I win.

Sparhawk, good job dude. And that shit juan is talking about is NUTS. I really hope I never stumble across that, because I'll be forced to attempt it.

I still have the game, and the save. humm.....:D

Had a similar situation in my programming class. As the year went on the teacher started letting us get away with more and more. We've had Quake 2 lans and once we even loaded up Postal 2 in there granted it ran like shit. Sometimes its nice having a lazy teacher. Harder to learn but after you do get away with a lot.

Did a search on Google for Mega Minesweeper. Found lots of stuff for Mac. nuthin' for the PC. Shucks. :(

I was lookin' forward to trying something crazy too :(

Found some other interesting sites dedicated to the math involved in programing the "randomness" of where the mines are placed. Math makes my brain hurt!

oh yeah. it was some students project a few years back. I'm sure someone has written a mine sweeper for doz that has as many mines. it's not that hard....

crow, you sir, are a worthy adversary.

my best times are..

beginner - 8secs
Intermediate - 40secs
expert - 108secs

are there world championships for minesweeper?

I just play minesweeper when I have nothing else to do at the moment. My best beginner time is like 35 seconds...

But I always remember my uncle's secret strategy to winning. He said you just have to imagine that each square is a city block and millions of lives are in your hands...

I've done 7 on beginner, can't recall my other scroes. my mission in life used to be to knock my dad off hte high-score tables. that, and tetris. ooooh, one day... :P

there's a hack for this minesweeper for windows.

open up minesweeper, start the game by clickin on a square.

now, press the 'show desktop' button on the quicklaunch.

now, open minesweeper back up again and the clock has stopped!!

i accidentally found it.


btw, i've beaten all 3 levels of it

why don't you just edit the score file to give yourself a time of 1 second?:rolleyes:

bundy, I don't know if there are world championships, but I know that there is a list of the 100 greatest players. I'm not on it, but I could be. Its just kinda time consuming and it requires lots of proof for something that isn't gonna help me anyway.

I had to delete it, because I was doing the same thing...thinking out mine patterns as I fell asleep was amusing, but a little disconcerting. I think I managed to get under 100 s on expert, but I have friends who were far better than I.

i love that game. no one can beat my times. i espescially love it when i get bored at work:)

I despise people who have high end computers, yet sit on their ass and play solitaire and minesweeper all day. Use your power!

aw. i used to play it ALL THE TIME on Windows 3, but my XP doesnt have it.

I had a record for Beginner: 8 seconds

I had to write a version of minesweeper in Java for my first programming class.

beginner 7 secs
intermediate 54 secs

(i've never beaten expert) amazing huh?

maybe if i could get my hands on some prescription amphetamines...

That obession sounds like me except for the whole thinking about playing when i'm not. I used to play a lot.. almost as bad as my screen shotting solitare everytime i beat it under 70 seconds.

beginner - 6
intermediate - 31
expert - couldn't even beat

I don't even know how to play properly :(

I used to get paid £4.50 an hour to play it at work!

Beginner - 9s
Intermediate - 52s
Expert - 215s

I just can't beat the damn expert, no matter how hard I try, it ends up in a situation where I have to guess, and I always bloody well die.

Whee!

Beginner: 6 seconds
Intermediate: 24 seconds
Expert: (an unamazing) 104 seconds

No cheating or anything, either.

Re: Can anyone play Minesweeper???
 

well i had it bad for sometime :)
was playing it in my head at school etc...


beginner - 10 secs
intermediate - 32 secs
expert - 134 secs

my best is

8
35
??? havent tried super hard on that yet.....ur guys scores are sweet thou

The same thing happened to me. I would play the game everytime I could and yes even in my head sometimes. Don't worry it'll go away in like a month, as long as you try not to play every 5 seconds.
Best Times:
Beginner: 4
Intermediate: 38
Expert: 96 (yeah under 100(now I feel as if I've wasted so much time))

I like the game, its fantastical!!

Wow.. I'm horrible at minesweeper :) Mine sweeper on beginner owns me half the time.

I at one point obsessed over minesweeper... would play it during the long load times on websites.

I haven't played it at all since getting my new computer and cable modem.

This thread has made me start playing it again, sadly.

My girlfriend does that all the time!! Its scary to watch her play because she doesn't even think about it... her hand just goes to the squares without the mines... totally creepy.

eh i'ved tried to play that thing many times i just cant get the hang of it so i gave up on the thing lol

gahh~ to annoying for my ADD mind~~
make that ADHD..

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