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<blockquote data-quote="Heretic Apostate" data-source="post: 2490581" data-attributes="member: 696">Given enough time to play, I can easily beat any of those scores.&nbsp; My best expert level was 120-ish seconds, but that was after about many, many games.&nbsp; I win on expert about every hundred games or so.&nbsp; The first 30 flags are easy.&nbsp; The next 30 are more difficult, but I can get them every ten or so games.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;Intermediate is easy, I can beat it in about 40-50 seconds about every five games.&nbsp; And I have to really screw up to lose on easy.&nbsp;Of course, as I said, I've had LOTS of practice.&nbsp; It's a matter of getting a good starting position (so you lose about two-thirds of the games by your initial frantic &quot;clear a big enough gap to start from&quot; 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...).&nbsp;A fun game.&nbsp; 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...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Heretic Apostate, post: 2490581, member: 696"] [u][i]Given enough time to play[/i][/u], 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... [/QUOTE]

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