The hotly-anticipated Minesweeper post.
One of my favorite time-wasters in college, when I was supposed to be writing papers on post-structuralism and gender identity, was Minesweeper. I would spend blocks of 10 or 20 minutes at a time just trying to beat my best time. Sometimes more like an hour. It was pretty bad, guys.
So the point is, I got pretty good at it*. Good enough to scare people who saw me playing, my stupid mousehand flying around clicking and clicking and clicking. Good enough to develop fairly complex analyses of the intricacies of the game. So here's my intermediate strategy guide to Minesweeper: ( it is pretty long. )
I have been playing Minesweeper for a really long time now, and at this point it's pretty much just a matter of seeing if I can shave 1 second off of my best times. This is pretty boring, so I have a new obsession: Minesweeper without marks. It's simple--you play as normal, but you don't right-click to mark mines. All you do is left-click to clear spaces. You end up with games that look like this:
I have yet to make it to the end of an expert game like this, but one day I will, and it'll be really really sweet.
So the point is, I got pretty good at it*. Good enough to scare people who saw me playing, my stupid mousehand flying around clicking and clicking and clicking. Good enough to develop fairly complex analyses of the intricacies of the game. So here's my intermediate strategy guide to Minesweeper: ( it is pretty long. )
I have been playing Minesweeper for a really long time now, and at this point it's pretty much just a matter of seeing if I can shave 1 second off of my best times. This is pretty boring, so I have a new obsession: Minesweeper without marks. It's simple--you play as normal, but you don't right-click to mark mines. All you do is left-click to clear spaces. You end up with games that look like this:
I have yet to make it to the end of an expert game like this, but one day I will, and it'll be really really sweet.