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  • gnossdrawkcab, on 02/28/2008, -37/+22god damn you computer...god damn you
    • dominasian, on 02/28/2008, -16/+3his reaction was probably closer to
      porn
    • jdog7117, on 02/28/2008, -6/+65I don't know why everybody is so shocked, these sort of 50-50 chances happen ALL THE TIME in expert minesweeper. You learn to live with it.
      • SHv2, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9But not usually after 398 seconds have elapsed...
      • sunkist22, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I had it happen once. I was down to the last mine, and 2 valid choices to choose from. I picked the wrong one. It was a 50-50 shot. Oh well :)
      • JoeFelice, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I'm with you jdog7117. If you're good then this is how you usually lose.

        It was last because the player saved the hard choices for last.
      • ch33sehead, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Exactly. Here's a screenshot that I took the first time it happened to me:
        http://img209.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=27372_m ...
        There isn't much you can do when it's a 50/50 gamble since it's not really your fault.
      • ufia, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Cut the red wire!
    • Asianwaste, on 02/28/2008, -5/+11Minesweeper is the perfect simulator for modern day Iraq.
      • KargeOfTylenol, on 02/28/2008, -3/+12I believe you're talking about Leisure Suit Larry.
    • BastionKane, on 02/28/2008, -1/+26398 seconds?? come talk to me again the first time your about to break 100 sec and that happens to you.

      I used to play a lot of minesweeper when I had dial up.
      • lanemik, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10Ha! Exactly! Minesweeper was the perfect accessory for dialup. I had to buy several mice before I got just the right one. My best score was 89 seconds iirc.

        Though, I can see why you'd be more upset if you spent 6-and-a-half minutes trying to solve minesweeper only to get to a 50/50 than if you spent a minute-and-a-half.
    • cheaptricks, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3http://alskjdflaksjfd.ytmnd.com/ Here's the same idea in an animated YTMND form
      • Fxer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Um, that wasn't 50/50. If there was only one mine left, you could have cleared the lower row to figure out where the mine was.
      • midbc, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3R.I.P TourettesGUY
  • ani625, on 02/28/2008, -42/+505...I'm a wiz at Minesweeper, I could play for days
    Once you've see my sweet moves, you're gonna stay amazed
    My fingers movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze...
    • plainOldFool, on 02/28/2008, -32/+18dude, you're whiter than sour cream
      • ComeOutSwingin, on 02/28/2008, -10/+67I'm a white boy, but my neck is red
        I put Miracle Whip on my Wonder Bread
        My face is pale, nah, I've never been in jail
        Me and Buffy spend every winter at Vail
        How many bitches have I slapped? Zero. Unh!
        And Martha Stewart happens to be my hero
        I grew up on a farm and I was born with no rhythm
        Dr. Phil's my uncle and I like to hang with him
        I can't dance
        I wear khaki pants
        My middle name's Lance
        My Grandma's from France
        So maybe I'm wack
        'Cause my skin ain't black
        But you can't talk smack
        'Cause whitey just struck back
    • donkeySays, on 02/28/2008, -3/+108Come bust a move where the games are played.
      It's chill, it's fresh, it's Noah's Arcade!
    • BOMBSHELL, on 02/28/2008, -35/+11...when a couple of guys, who were up to no good,
      started makin trouble in my neighborhood,
      I got in one little fight and my mom got scared,
      she said you're movin with your auntie and uncle to bel-ar
    • AtiimKiambu, on 02/28/2008, -14/+2I thought I was a minesweeper wiz, until the same thing happened to me:
      http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4121/whyyyuh2.p ...
      That was a pretty disappointing moment, even though my time wasn't that great.
      • AntzNZ, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5add ng to the end of that link
      • Fxer, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2You didn't play enough if that only happened once. And 340s is a long time.
    • jamesdew, on 02/28/2008, -4/+58At Pascal, well I'm number one (one)
      Do vector calculus just for fun
      I ain't got a gat, but I got a soldering gun
      • keviniskool, on 02/28/2008, -4/+27Happy Days is my favorite theme song
        I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping-pong
        Ace any trivia quiz you bring on
        I've fluent in javascript as well as Klingon
      • diggimator, on 02/28/2008, -2/+8soldering gun, nerd's weapon of choice.
      • Battousai778, on 02/28/2008, -3/+7My rims never spin to the contrary
        youll find that they are quite stationary
        all of my action figures are cherry
        steven hawking is in my library
      • sharkd, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9I've been browsing, inspectin'
        X-men comics you know I collect 'em
        The pens in my pocket
        I must protect 'em
        my ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
        Shopping online for deals on some writable media
        I edit Wikipedia
      • TobiasParker, on 02/28/2008, -10/+2The second guy quoted the only part of that song that applied to this. You guys are retarded, especially diggimator for only posting a single line.
    • specz, on 02/28/2008, -8/+3that's what save states are for. Oh wait...
    • bsonline, on 02/28/2008, -17/+6Raps so sad they could be done by Eminem...
      In between blowing him and him and him.
      Ani, yours was the way to go...
      But Donkeysays sucked like a donkey show!
      Jamesdew you were ok,
      But them other ***** I'd bury any day.

      Speaking of bury, digg me the ***** down. What the hell am I thinking? I feel like a clown, my ***** is stinking.
    • Battousai778, on 02/28/2008, -10/+1AIDS... you now have it
    • revanrules, on 02/28/2008, -9/+6I got a business doin websites,
      when my friends need some code who do they call?
      I do html for em all,
      even made a homepage for my dog...Yo
    • naiku, on 02/28/2008, -1/+11Happy days is my favourite theme song
      I can sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
      I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
      I'm fluent in Java Script as well as Klingon
    • TubeDigger, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1...till the 50/50 burnt me in this numerical maze...
    • offspringx1, on 02/28/2008, -2/+0its hard to overstate my satisfaction....
    • plbland, on 02/28/2008, -2/+1I'll click little squares
      ***** the boss, who cares
      I'm a lovin' minesweeper
      but the bombs make me leap'er... :(
    • LETHARGICpirate, on 02/29/2008, -2/+2word
  • gurudrew, on 02/28/2008, -15/+188type "xyzzy" then press together [shift]+[enter] keys FTW
    • AMACTASTIC, on 02/28/2008, -4/+50CHEATER.
    • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -6/+5doesn't do anything for me
      • prophetpimp, on 02/28/2008, -10/+8try ctrl+alt+del
      • capiCrimm, on 02/28/2008, -4/+23did you try flipping the little red switch next to your computers power input first? It makes your computer run itself backwards.
        • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -3/+13I did that
          And it does go backwards!
          • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -2/+5actually I did do that
            in 2002 (when I was a newbie) curiosity killed my Packard Bell C566's Power Supply
          • cliffhanger407, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12Once a noob, always a noob.
          • sexybobo, on 02/28/2008, -3/+1You can never train a noob to be leet they will always just be a trainded noob
      • mrynit, on 02/28/2008, -2/+2only works on win2k and up....appernly not on vista so just 2k and XP. maybe others
      • NullPolarity, on 02/28/2008, -0/+19Delete System32.
      • po43292, on 02/28/2008, -4/+14I like to cheat with ALT-F4 whenever possible, especially if you get to a really hard part and you're almost done.
        • dudeguy1234, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Ctrl W is also another one to try if that doesn't work.
    • unearth, on 02/28/2008, -1/+139For anyone trying this, it isn't very obvious at first, which is why it's awesome.

      If you open minesweeper, hold your mouse over the window, and hit those keys and then enter (shift+enter, enter), the very top left pixel in your screen (not on the minesweeper board) will turn white if you hover over a safe space and black if theres a mine under the square your mouse is on.

      Good way to win a bet.
      • honeymustardn, on 02/28/2008, -1/+37Woah, I thought that was too outlandish to be true, but it does work, thanks a lot :D
      • psykiv, on 02/28/2008, -7/+4Too bad its so hard to tell if one particular pixel is black or white. My resolution is 1680 x 1050. My vision isn't that good!
      • fudgeigor, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9I'm running 1920 x 1200 and had no problems seeing the white pixel.
      • play150, on 02/28/2008, -3/+1I'm running that too and the white pixel doesn't change :(
    • GiantDong, on 02/28/2008, -2/+38Doesn't work in Vista.
      • Hyperion1144, on 02/28/2008, -11/+164Item #5,987,482 on the list of "Things that don't work in Vista."
        • ikillpeoplexx, on 02/28/2008, -7/+2LOL NICE.
        • ulmedas, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1It's not that things don't work in Vista, it's more like they added features, but instead of adding, the features were subtracted. Yippy!!
      • Jahweh, on 02/28/2008, -4/+7I got that bad boy problem haha
      • getisboy, on 02/28/2008, -8/+10lol u use vista?
      • GastonFTW, on 02/28/2008, -3/+5Nothing works in Vista.
    • scitz0frenic, on 02/28/2008, -2/+50How come after I type that in and I move my cursor over a picture of hillary the pixel goes dark?
      • jaybird1905, on 02/28/2008, -21/+1You sir, are not funny.
        • njcarlos, on 02/28/2008, -1/+11Yeah, he is.
          • jaybird1905, on 04/23/2008, -0/+1Nah. Political jokes are so 1990's man. Get with the f'n times.
        • phobe, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1lol actually i thought that was hilarious
      • Ohimesama, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1It matches the color of her evil evil soul.
    • kurosen, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4That is awesome.... mines will be shat....
    • amgamer23, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Wow, that is pretty sweet.
    • dudetaz2003, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10I just want to know how some one discovered this.
      • Piscean1, on 02/29/2008, -0/+2The person who wrote it, and the tester who tested it would both know. And you know what they say about 2 people keeping a secret...
  • vinnyn, on 02/28/2008, -28/+85EPIC FAIL
  • Zippo, on 02/28/2008, -5/+22Ooooh, missed it by... THAT much!
    • Steinr, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Dugg up, only because I just watched the trailer before turning to digg. nice coincidence.
  • ca7l0s9, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10Crappy situation huh? I only got to crack the Difficult level for three or four times. I know how it feels. :(
  • HairyGrapeNuts, on 02/28/2008, -38/+81Minesweeper? People still play that?
    • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -11/+186Better than World of Warcraft
    • Omgitzurdad, on 02/28/2008, -15/+2Die slut
    • tikiman453, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7they even put it on vista!
    • beerncheese, on 02/28/2008, -2/+4I got news for ya harry. People still play old games. I know it is weird...who would want to play Tecmo Superbowl or Super Offroad when you have awesome new games like RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 and Viva Pinata? It is best that you know that these people are out there.
      • screensnot, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Not too long ago, my friends and I had a Super Tecmobowl party. I drew the '49ers and cleaned their clocks.
      • stretch611, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Actually yes, I still play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2. I bought and tried 3, but I liked 2 better. 3 admittedly has better graphics, but I want to have fun, not deal with my employees not doing their jobs.
      • heypetray, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Been playing through HOMM3 again. Nostalgic games are cheap and fun.
      • ulmedas, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2MMMmmm...populous...I feel like someone is getting really close to hitting the Armageddon button.
        • kevxross, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Holy crap you just brought back some good gaming memories.
    • sunkist22, on 02/28/2008, -2/+6Minesweeper can be addictive. But I think it's more for people who can add... I was playing it on my friend's computer once and they just looked at me and asked if I was hitting buttons at random, or if I knew what I was doing... um... ya...
      • qber, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5Don't think it's so much adding as pattern recognition.
      • njcarlos, on 02/28/2008, -2/+5No, it's adding. You see a pattern in minesweeper? Give me some of what you're smoking.
        • qber, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4To quote collegehumor's minesweeper movie, "See a 1 by a corner? It's a mine! A 3 on a wall? They're all mines!"

          The more you play, the more you learn to recognize patterns like these. Unless you're a complete minesweeper noob, you can instantly identify the tiles that are mines in these situations without any sort of counting or math.
          • njcarlos, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1But that isn't a pattern, it's familiarizing yourself with the actual *rules* of the game and common configurations. Seeing a pattern insinuates there is, in essence, some algorithmic approach to flagging all mines, and there isn't, because it's random; therefore there is no pattern.
      • atticus8, on 03/01/2008, -0/+2"I think it's more for people who can add"
        Yeah, that's one of those useful skills.
    • qber, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6What else do people do when the internet connection goes down?
  • evamcs, on 02/28/2008, -1/+15had that happen before...don't judge me
  • camino262, on 02/28/2008, -3/+44And the yellow smilie face is let down once again... One day he will have revenge!
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4...his sweet, happy revenge.
  • bendeboy, on 02/28/2008, -8/+434try sweeping for REAL mines... THAT'S a bitch
    • Hayaemsay, on 02/28/2008, -2/+122http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138
      • yoakster314, on 02/28/2008, -1/+15Oh Man... I'm so glad someone posted that!
      • akermani, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11lolol,Why are these mines even here!!!!
      • Llanowar, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13I knew something was missing in my life.
        I finally found it!
      • nshady, on 02/28/2008, -0/+22"That clock is going to keep ticking until it reaches 999."
        "What happens then?"
        "Nothing. You just suck."
      • UnstableMind, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Minesweeper Drill Sgt. - "Why are you here?"

        Minesweeper Nuub - "Because, I'm bored!"
      • GibitStylin, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Don't worry, Its never the first one! ...... /* EXPLODES */
      • CondiRice, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I just spat bread everywhere.
    • mGARANDEUR1, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9Wouldn't you just use a mine field clearing tank with the rake in front of it?
      • TheSeptimHeir, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Why waste the gas and transportation costs when you could just use a mine-field-clearing obsessive girlfriend with a rake tied to her waist?
    • durant0s, on 02/28/2008, -6/+1was the all capital THAT'S necessary?
  • zplot, on 02/28/2008, -2/+16I used to play Windows Minesweeper on XP all the time, and must have run into that situation dozens of times. Interestingly, every time (not joking, 100% of the time) that I came down to 2 pieces, the one I selected was the bomb. So this guy shouldn't feel bad. In order to be hard-core on Minesweeper, one has to be prepared for disappointment.
    • stretch611, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I used to play all the time too. Whenever I found a situation like this (a lucky guess position) I would guess right away. That way I did not waste my effort solving everything else only to lose on the last square.
    • muchachoburacho, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Maybe if that happened to him when he was about to do it in under 200 seconds ide feel bad for him. At least 400 seconds isn't a great time.
    • ronintetsuro, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Pretty sure if you're hardcore at Minesweeper, you're as prepared for disappointment as you're likely to get.
  • matt487, on 02/28/2008, -7/+232The computer set him up the bomb.
    • TobiasParker, on 02/28/2008, -1/+8Does anyone else worry that when we are like 80 we will be in a nursing home...and the guy sitting next to us will ***** his pants, and from across the room comes [old man voice]Ha! Someone set him up a bomb[/old man voice] or better yet...
      Old Digger 1: Did you here? Marty has cancer!
      Old Digger 2: I guess he will not survive...make his time!
  • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -3/+68I sometimes wish life had save and load buttons
    • pyro789x, on 02/28/2008, -0/+11If that includes your memory, you would be stuck in an infinite loop.
      • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -4/+2you mean if that doesn't include your memory
        • Reziarfg, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6You mean if that does include your memory
          • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -1/+6ok
            our memory does not get overwritten with the older saved memory when the old save is loaded
            there we go
    • kirakun, on 02/28/2008, -1/+5Interesting that you said that. Recently, I watched a Japanese anime that explores a very similar hypothesis. In that movie, a girl came upon the ability to jump back in time and started to redo whatever she wanted to her likings. The answer there is not as simple as what you imagined it to be.

      Look up the torrent for "Toki wo kakeru shoujo" if you're interested.

    • AntzNZ, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9After playing Oblivion all day, the next day at school I kept imagining quicksaving and then doing something really stupid to see what the result would be.
      • chingy1788, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4i got the same ideas after playing through Half Life 2 and the Episodes all in one go
    • qwertyuio, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Or at least minesweeper...
    • turner050, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Yea it'd be great to be able to to press ctrl+z every time i ***** up.
      • Verdanic, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2My fingers sometimes twitch in the CTRL+Z pattern when I ***** something up while I'm not at the computer (and I'm totally serious). I used to do it a lot, not as bad nowadays.
    • CCmachined, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1yeah.. we just need a Life™ Emulator!
      savestates FTW! xD
  • StingingNettle, on 02/28/2008, -17/+42If he ran linux he wouldn't have had that problem.
    • 3amboo, on 02/28/2008, -2/+1CMD+Z ftw.
    • tgoose, on 02/28/2008, -9/+69Because there are no games on Linux?
      • makkaveli19, on 02/28/2008, -1/+15is that zing-able?
      • TacticalPenguin, on 02/28/2008, -1/+10Yes, because a minesweeper clone is not included in ubuntu.
        • TridenTBoy, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Wow! Really? No ubuntu for me then.
          • IEatHamburgers, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7Way to go TacticalPenguin - your lack of [/sarcasm] tags has killed another potential Ubuntu user.
            Hope you're proud of yourself.
      • dudeguy1234, on 02/28/2008, -3/+2You can play Windows games with WINE though. BAM!
    • da_bradler, on 02/28/2008, -11/+4No, it's because there is no anything on Linux.
    • balazsbela, on 02/28/2008, -2/+7He can still play minesweeper :P.
      Only it's called KMines and it looks a lot better.
    • auhnuld, on 02/28/2008, -3/+2yeah, because he'd still be compiling all the minesweeper clone dependencies, searching the internets for solutions to the dependencies that failed to compile before he could even get a clone of minesweeper to work.
      • trisweb, on 02/28/2008, -0/+4Wow, that was so 1999.... get a package manager dude...
      • tgoose, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1What the hell are you using, Slackware?
  • mtg1287, on 02/28/2008, -6/+35(jaw drops). User calmly closes the game window, stands up, and proceeds to throw computer out of the window.
  • NaziHatinChimp, on 02/28/2008, -1/+14Terrorists!
  • DiggLive, on 02/28/2008, -19/+6...and then you die. ***** the RIAA and lets get high.
    • NullPolarity, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9Sounds like a good summary of Digg, actually.
    • postalblowfish7, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3cause you never know when you're gunna go!
    • Pureeviljester, on 02/28/2008, -2/+1that's why i puff lie
  • alihaq717, on 02/28/2008, -5/+26so apparently life = minesweeper?
    • ComeOutSwingin, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9I wouldn't take it that literally. You can work hard, do everything methodically and accurate, but at the end of the day it could all mean nothing.

      Life is a bitch.
    • unearth, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2I actually made that argument in a philosophy paper in high school.

      /nerd
    • simplechris, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3no!

      minesweeper > life.
  • SilenceGold, on 02/28/2008, -16/+2Even if photoshopped, I liked seeing it...dugg!
    • Matri, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13You've obviously never played Minesweeper before, then.
      • brettmurf, on 02/28/2008, -0/+13But...but...on my screen there's only a 9x9 grid?!! He must have used photoshop to get all of those extra cells!
  • lordenlil, on 02/28/2008, -3/+5Those damn terrorists.
  • directedition, on 02/28/2008, -2/+117"What do we do now?!"
    "Now, we guess."
    • GibitStylin, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2c:WINDOWSaccessoriesgamesminesweepermovie
  • msoyupak, on 02/28/2008, -5/+0that sucks. I bet you are dreaming bout sweeping mines.
  • br0pbr0p, on 02/28/2008, -4/+24That happened to me a few times.

    But than, it doesn't take me even close to 400 seconds to get that far. -_-
    • EwMo, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2118 :) It took me WAAAY too long to get under 2 minutes. There are so many patterns in that game, it's ridiculous.
      • AlvesLopes, on 02/28/2008, -0/+0124, but my brother got down to 108
    • isseki, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Are you trying to impress us with your mad minesweeper skillz?
    • darlingt, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5Maybe s/he sat there for 5 minutes trying to decide. Maybe s//he's got some kind of anti-decision disorder. Maybe you shouldn't make FUN of people who have DISABILITIES, okay?!

      *takes swig of blue Powerade*

      Sorry. The red stuff always gets me. Won't happen again.
    • spankr, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I'm surprised more ppl haven't commented on the time - but to be fair - they could've waited a while before taking the screen shot...
      • stretch611, on 02/28/2008, -1/+1Except that the screen shot was taken after they hit the mine and the timer stopped at that point.
    • patforget, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Minesweeper is USE .............. Useless Skill Enhancer!
    • turquoisefish, on 03/02/2008, -0/+1When I play minesweeper and solitaire at work I have to take phone calls occasionally - can't play while on the phone so the time is longer than I was actually concentrating on it. Same thing here maybe?
  • cubbiesx, on 02/28/2008, -2/+8no, no i'm pretty sure life is like a box of chocolates. minesweeper is too. the bombs are any kind of "fruit" filling.
  • MyDiggIsBig, on 02/28/2008, -14/+8if that happened to me i would make that smiley face open up big and i would gag him to death him with my dick.

    dont worry, I'm seeking help.
    • bingobongony, on 02/28/2008, -1/+9I am sure your elemntary school has access to a psychiatrist.
  • uziko, on 02/28/2008, -1/+6Happens all the time. In fact it happens about 4 times on average every game, so you have to get lucky 4 times usually to win minesweeper on expert.
  • Mihr, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I could never win at that game. Gah... the frustration is coming back already...
  • jmpeagle, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2does anyone know if you can get that game for a Mac?
  • Zihuatanejo, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3Stick to Freecell
  • nukemunky, on 02/28/2008, -2/+33http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
  • Grimlock82, on 02/28/2008, -9/+3AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  • tjmb9, on 02/28/2008, -3/+5Man, his time was terrible though...
  • Jareth86, on 02/28/2008, -1/+28Did you know the vista version of minesweeper doesn't have the smiley face anymore? Bastards...
    • Revolution101, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2my vista doesn't even have it >=[
    • mithrasinvictus, on 02/28/2008, -1/+19maybe you need to buy the "ultimate" edition to have that
    • Cryoniq, on 02/28/2008, -13/+3who cares. Noone use Vista anyway. Productive and smart people do GNU/Linux btw :P
      • Verdanic, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Oh, let me run a benchmark. Just open this .PSD in.. Oh, right.
        Generalizations do not work in the OS world.
    • 4LeggedtriPod, on 02/28/2008, -4/+4Well that's b/c Windows Vista is the biggest ***** of an OS ever made.
      • stretch611, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2You must be too young to remember Microsoft Bob.
        Bob was really created as another layer on top of Windows 3.1, which of course was layered on top of DOS.
  • WatchDragon, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2I'm glad it's not politics or Iraq news. I been in this situation many times at work on a rainy day.
  • mawdurnbukanier, on 02/28/2008, -2/+3I hate it when it comes down to chance, I always pick the bomb :(
  • ProKid, on 02/28/2008, -1/+23I still don't know how to play this game
    • coffeebaby, on 02/28/2008, -1/+2me neither
    • yelnatz, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10The numbers tell you how many mines around that specific square.
      • nshady, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1You flag where the mines are click on the squares where you know there aren't any. Then you just work your way around the board.
        • KingGorilla, on 02/28/2008, -0/+6Then you put on a robe and wizard hat
    • Verdanic, on 02/28/2008, -0/+3I remember the day I learned. That was a good day.
    • digjam, on 02/29/2008, -0/+1Its a bitch ...do it!
  • SolipsismX, on 02/28/2008, -1/+3That's actually really common.... the game should just let you win when that happens,
  • russellnation, on 02/28/2008, -3/+26He deserved it, 398 is a horrible time for expert.
  • Cryoniq, on 02/28/2008, -18/+1Life is not a bitch, that player must be a retard. It is obvious there be a mine at that place all around and still he picked that one. That is the definition of an idiot.
    • yelnatz, on 02/28/2008, -0/+10No.

      There was no indicator which blank had the mine in it. It was either that or the one above it. He chose wrong.

      Idiot.
  • SkinnerBox, on 02/28/2008, -1/+7I had this happen to me this week... Don't ask my why I'm playing minesweeper when I have a Wii and a PS2 right next to my computer.
    • dudetaz2003, on 02/28/2008, -5/+2Why are you playing minesweeper when you have a wii and PS2 right next to your computer?
    • pikpikcarrotmon, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Dude, he said don't ask.
    • heathuff23, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1I have the same setup and I know the answer because I do the same thing..the answer is we are lazy and don't have time to wait. with a game system there is a wait time which we do not want to wait for. Its just so much easier to click on an icon and have the game start immediately.
      The same thing goes for DVD's...I have hundreds of them but I don't watch them because that would involve putting a disk in the DVD player and once again waiting for load time. I hate being lazy :(
  • lkms, on 02/28/2008, -10/+3my current best on this computer is 119 on expert ... try more.
    and yeah that happens all the time :)
    but tbh this is very dumb game it can be easily solved ..

    I once wanted to write a minesweeper that generates only solvable fields, but then I got bored.. as on that way I've written the auto opener that just auto-filled the bombs when the number of closed neighbours was equal to the number of bombs, which basically opened the whole field with single click, most of the times. And only rarely there were situation requiring some analyzing, and these are not tricky and solvable too btw.. then I dropped this useless program and forgot about it .. but I still play windows minesweeper to have a short break although during that I feel dirty somewhy.
  • ooooo, on 02/28/2008, -10/+2its not 50/50 you can see the other one is the correct one, for the other one all the ones that were in proximity to it had all the mines uncovered
    • andrew24601, on 02/28/2008, -0/+9Particularly if you take into account the mine that they clicked on ;-)
  • HoboMaster, on 02/28/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I have about 15 screenshots of this exact situation. Woo.
  • sbrar83, on 02/28/2008, -0/+5an interesting experiment would be to hibernate your computer, save those files, try to sweep a spot, if you hit the bomb, reload the hibernation files and try the other spot.
    • TobiasParker, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Quantum minesweeper?
    • shadowblade989, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Or in vista, you could just save and reload.
  • Tddupre, on 02/28/2008, -1/+12John McCain Meets Bill Gates
    let's play minesweeper for another 100 years
    • bingobongony, on 02/28/2008, -11/+3You embarrass yourself when you imply that MCcain's response meant that. You don't hurt McCain at all. Then again, you are in favor of both a black candidate and a racist one...so go figure. (And before you say that Ron Paul is not racist and that I am taking things he said out of context...WHOA! Stop right there.. Taking things out of context? Stay in Iraq 100 years? WOW!
  • dwninjungleland, on 02/28/2008, -1/+8Why are you here?!
    I'm bored!!!
    And don't you forget it, soldier...
  • Bordeth, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2i love this screen saver:

    http://home.dlma.com/Download/Minehunt.html
  • jpg2, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Imagine the same thing with the time somewhere around 120 seconds...
    • darkane, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Wow. You must be the 'cool' that the internet has been waiting for.
  • chill1217, on 02/28/2008, -2/+3"That clock is going to keep ticking until it reaches 999."
    "What happens then?"
    "Nothing. You just suck."
  • timlawrenz, on 02/28/2008, -0/+438 seconds minesweeper expert former world record:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ9iEDMLZpw

    as you can see, the idea of minesweeper is NOT to mark every mine with a flag, but to open all fields that are not mines.
    • Batiu-Drami, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Um, in the video you just posted he's marking the mines.
      • timlawrenz, on 02/28/2008, -0/+2Only a few. I know, there is it's own class for people how play completely without marking. but if you read the tips from people how play a lot, they recommend to mark as few as possible because it only costs time.
      • Verdanic, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1Not the large clusters though. It makes sense, once you know you've passed a large pile of mines, you can just leave it be rather than marking each one.
    • Ibox, on 02/28/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CH-Kx2sl9c&NR=1 try this
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