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How fast are you at Minesweeper?

Post 1

Gnomon - time to move on

I gave up playing Minesweeper and deleted it off my machine because I found it totally addictive and doing strange things to my brain. I managed to finish the Expert level in 164 seconds, which I thought was pretty neat, but I know people who can regularly do it in under 140 seconds. I've also seen claims from a bloke in the USA of under 60 seconds.

What's your best score?


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Post 2

Bright Blue Shorts

3 seconds for the small grid. Should have been 2 seconds but I was a bit slow due to the shock of its simplicity. Other than that I have registered 10 seconds on this size a few times.

BBS smiley - smiley


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Post 3

Orcus

I've done the large grid in 140ish but I would be surprised at any claim of regularity. The large grid seems to require you to guess after a while which makes most games end up exploded. This kind of put me off Minesweeper I'm afraid (well eventually anyway smiley - winkeye)

Minesweeper speed requires a good clean Mouse and Mouse Mat smiley - smiley


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Post 4

Phil

I have been able to get less than 120 (114 I think) for the expert level. Currently (after a long lay off) it's around the 180-220 mark.
It definately requires good mouse control - especially when you're using high resolution graphics as the squares become smaller.


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Post 5

Bright Blue Shorts

Orcus - good summary smiley - smiley BBS


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Post 6

Orcus

Why thankyou smiley - smiley

*bows*


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Post 7

C Hawke

A friend of mine has beaten 60 seconds on the hardest level on the Psion version - Bombs, not sure of grid dimensions or number of mines but probably the same as the Windows version.

ChawkE


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Post 8

Orcus

Clearly a sad sad person smiley - winkeye


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Post 9

C Hawke

No not sad, very smiley - smiley in fact, but with a job that occasionally means sitting in a parked car the middle of nowhere all day.

ChawkE


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Post 10

C Hawke

FYI The hard Psion setting is 24 x 8 with 38 mines.

ChawkE


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Post 11

Dancing Ermine

My best on beginner level is about 7 seconds but regularly get 10-14. Intermediate, I've managed 48 seconds and on expert got as low as 118 I think. You do need to spend a few days after a break getting back into it. I usually hit my peak around the 5th or 6th completion in a session. However I have been known to spend hours playing that game.


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Post 12

Jay

I spent half an hour once trying to get under 10 seconds but couldn't quite do it.

Changing the subject slightly to other ubiquitous games, has anyone beaten a score of 920 playing snake on the Nokia phone? I got that score soon after I got the phone and haven't played it since because I don't think I'll ever beat it.

Jay


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Post 13

C Hawke

Any maze switched on or just the empty screen?

ChawkE


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Post 14

Jay

Just the empty screen - I have an old phone and it doesn't have fancy features smiley - smiley


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Post 15

Orcus

If that's like my old phone (Nokia 702) I got the maximum on the slowest level (sad sad sad) which is over 1100 points I think (ie no space left on screen and beat this score on one or two faster levels.

smiley - biggrin


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Post 16

The Groob

My record on the easiest level is 10 seconds. My record on Dope Wars is 63 million. Can anyone beat that?


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Post 17

riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes

until now i thought that "money" was the dullest string here. have you seen it?


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Post 18

GreyDesk

Beginner - 6 seconds.
Intermediate - about 35 seconds
Expert - 200ish seconds, though 19 times out of 20 I blow up smiley - sadface


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