> > I only play Minesweeper on Expert level. My best time (on this computer, at least) is 339 seconds. That's probably not very good. Most of the time I get blown up. The worst is when I'm down to the last two or three mines and end up having to make a wild guess as to where the clear squares are, and get blown up.
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> I find that minesweeper times vary significantly from computer to computer. I think some computers count time faster than others. There's also the mouse quality factor that Howard mentioned.
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> On one of my former computers, I got my best Expert time down to the high 90s, but at the time I couldn't do better than about 140 on some other computers. I was much faster when I didn't mark the mines.
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> Once I realized that pretty much every Expert game requires a wild guess at some stage (I think I only finished about 5 without having to guess), I moved on to harder stuff, i.e. freecell.
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> ^v^:)^v^
> F"we'll leave my Murkon's Refuge and Exterminator addictions for another day"B

When I play, I always start out with up to six wild guesses. I just click randomly around the edges hoping to clear some big spots. After that, I put my brain in gear. Sometimes I get blasted three or four times before I really get started.

They tell me mental exercise is great for old brains.
Howard