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I'm terrible at that game.

I personally believe you are not a true computer user until you have beaten Minesweeper on hard.

I guess I'm sort of proud to say I have.

I tend to keep falling about fifteen mines short.

And with the timer on 999, of course.

"That clock is going to keep ticking until it reaches nine nine nine!"
"What happens then?"
"Nothing - we just suck"

I remember I had a record of 5 seconds in Beginner. And yes it was legitimate. Altough a hell of a lot of luck was involved.

That's an ugly Ubuntu theme.

That's an ugly Ubuntu theme.

Minesweeper makes it worse because the colors of the numbers don't change based on the background.

holy hell

Man is there a version of minesweeper for windows that goes to those dimensions, I'd love to give that a go (i'd slam dunk your time too, just so you know :cool::cool::cool:)

I can't see it being very good.

I made a version once that uses a hexagonal grid. It's much easier, except that you keep thinking in squares. Also it had multiplayer (offline version of Flags from MSN), with AI. Turns out, AI to play Minesweeper is easy to write.

Well, my exact settings were 36x36, 384 mines, with wraparound. Also, the program guarantees that the first space you click on has no mines around it.

My build of gnomine is modified for wraparound and to show the number of cleared spaces instead of the number of mines marked. I've attached the patch I use to do that.

Good luck setting this up on windows.

I've never seen one with wraparound. (I assume it does what I think it does.) I've wondered about making one that included nex-nearest-neighbours in the count -- so in theory you could uncover anything from a zero to a 24. That would need serious experimenting to find settings that work -- there'd be no big areas cleared at once with as many mines as in regular games.

You can see in the screenshot that the bottom two rows are also the top two and that the leftmost two columns are also the rightmost.