Bored?

[megamania]

Its computers.... how far away can you be?

I rarely do games of this sort. Come to think of it, I don't do computer games in general....

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, the first tournament was in Budapest, the second was in Vienna. Minesweeper isn't exactly an online game.

I usually play when I'm waiting on other things.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

When I'm bored I usually watch TV, a DVD I'm really used to watching or just try to sleep. Thankfully, I'm not bored often.

 

[Evilhalfling]

I managed a 6 sec beginner level, a gov job, where we had a minesweeper tournament (I won)
On this computer 87 inter, and 797 expert.

Lately its Progress Quest - with a 36th lvl talking pony (toungeblade)

 

[megamania]

"Tongue blade"? Just what kind of game is this?

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I managed a 6 sec beginner level, a gov job, where we had a minesweeper tournament (I won)
On this computer 87 inter, and 797 expert.

Given enough time to play, I can easily beat any of those scores. My best expert level was 120-ish seconds, but that was after about many, many games. I win on expert about every hundred games or so. The first 30 flags are easy. The next 30 are more difficult, but I can get them every ten or so games. The next 30 are very tough (about every thirty games or so), and the last 9 flags are what ends up killing you almost every time.

Intermediate is easy, I can beat it in about 40-50 seconds about every five games. And I have to really screw up to lose on easy.

Of course, as I said, I've had LOTS of practice. It's a matter of getting a good starting position (so you lose about two-thirds of the games by your initial frantic "clear a big enough gap to start from" clicking), then you have to recognize the common simple patterns (the rarer or more complicated patterns, I'm not so good at), then making wild-arse-guesses to break out of jams (especially at the end, when you've nothing to base a guess on...).

A fun game. I've spent thousands of dollars on computer games over the last twenty years, and the one game I love the most comes free on every computer I've bought...

 

[Algolei]

My best time for beginner was 5 seconds....

Ayyyyy, me too!

Intermediate: 59 seconds.

Expert: 312 (I keep coming so close to beating 120 seconds, but then BOOM!). I should probably take my time towards the end....

 

[Algolei]

Ooh, I forgot to mention: When I'm bored, I Google for Norse mythology. Today I've gone a bit astray; working on Waetlinga straet at the mo'.

Mmmm, love me some good Northvegr stuff!

 

[Krug]

This one is confounding: http://www.planarity.net/#

 

[Psionicist]

This one is confounding: http://www.planarity.net/#

That's a neat game. I've finished level 1-16, not tried 17 yet. I am particularly proud of my level 12 record of 8 minutes. (Compared to almost an hour for level 16, oh well).