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Title: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on October 26, 2015, 04:08:57 PM
After hours of procrastination, thousands of flags raised and tons of explosiæ* (and thus games lost), at last I've managed to beat the expert mode of the good old Minesweeper. That game took 206 seconds (3:26 minutes) to be completed, far from the world record. Now I feel realized.

* Of all the words coined in the 'Plurals' thread, my favorite is what I call the 'explosive series'. Taking 'explosion' as a base, Duke87 coined 'explosia', and I coined 'explosiæ'.
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: hotdogPi on October 26, 2015, 04:10:24 PM
How large is the Expert grid (dimensions and number of mines)?
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on October 26, 2015, 04:21:41 PM
16x30 with 99 mines. So many.

PS Off-Topic: Not only your signature has Unicode characters, but also mine. In fact, every damn written thing in the internet has Unicode characters.
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: froggie on October 26, 2015, 08:23:01 PM
That's nice. Now try it in custom mode in 24x30 with 149 mines...
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: SignGeek101 on October 26, 2015, 09:03:13 PM
I used to play that game. I was never good at it, and never really got it.

Congrats.
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: Duke87 on October 26, 2015, 09:15:47 PM
I'm kinda surprised you've never done this before. What have you been wasting your finite existence doing instead? :-P

My best time at clearing Expert Minesweeper is 150 seconds, achieved on August 27, 2007 at approximately 11:20 PM (thank you screenshot metadata).

Been years since I've played, though. I tend to avoid such timewasting distractions these days - and besides which, newer versions of Windows don't come with it preloaded, so it isn't even on my current computer. I could go and harvest the EXE off an older machine, but why bother?
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: kurumi on October 26, 2015, 11:55:11 PM
Fake trailer for Minesweeper movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: Alex on October 28, 2015, 09:35:24 AM
Our mutual friend (dbrim on the forum here) introduced me to Jake back in 2006 and the first thing I recall about him that he was a record holder for Minesweeper.
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: Alps on November 01, 2015, 12:17:42 AM
My Expert record I think was in the 60s. I know my Beginner record was 6 and my Intermediate was in the low 30s.
My favorite version was max size (24x30) and 200 bombs. It was a nice step up from Expert with just a few guesses but also a few islands and some really fun gameplay. I beat that about 7 times in my playing days.
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: formulanone on November 01, 2015, 09:11:01 AM
Twice I'd come to the final two spots of expert-level Minesweeper, and had chosen incorrectly both times.

At some point, your realize your strengths lay elsewhere, and I don't think I've played since (that was on Windows 3.1, so it's been a while).
Title: Re: Finally beaten Minesweeper in expert mode!
Post by: mrsman on November 01, 2015, 10:21:33 PM
A game that I haven' t played in a long time.

An old job did not remove the games that were loaded on the machine, so during slow times, I got familiar with the game and did pretty well.

My current job has removed all pre-installed games, so I don't have the same time.

But in this day, there are much more interesting games to play and theads on this forum to read, so haven't played minesweeper in a while.