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sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
i'm watching a tourney at the moment, and it seems like high level play is really interesting - like way beyond anything i've ever done in a puzzle game. anyone played at a higher level? i'd be interested to hear about strategy.

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
er, what game(s)...?

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

PleasingFungus posted:

er, what game(s)...?

oh yeah, sorry, i was watching puyo. but the strategies seem sort of similar across games.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004
Once or twice a year me and my friends break out a couple of bottles of whiskey and play Puzzle Fighter all night. Does that count? It should.

Caithness
Nov 10, 2012

HEY!!!
YOU CAN SEE ME, CAN'T YOU? THEN WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME!?
I used to participate in online Tetris tournaments. Might do it again once Puyo Tetris is released.

One Man Trash
Jun 6, 2013
Does Minesweeper count as a puzzle game? One of my friends is extremely good and is in the top ten US leaderboard and top 100 worldwide leaderboard. Nobody gets paid to play Minesweeper though.

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

One Man Trash posted:

Does Minesweeper count as a puzzle game? One of my friends is extremely good and is in the top ten US leaderboard and top 100 worldwide leaderboard. Nobody gets paid to play Minesweeper though.

i'd be curious to see competitive minesweeper. how do you score matches, or whatever?

One Man Trash
Jun 6, 2013

sector_corrector posted:

i'd be curious to see competitive minesweeper. how do you score matches, or whatever?

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

elf help book
Aug 5, 2004

Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

One Man Trash posted:


This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730
I love this and the insane stats window.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

This is insane

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

the meticulous pathing is hypnotic and my favorite part is like halfway through when they visibly slow down and you realize that really is a human lol

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

In Training posted:

the meticulous pathing is hypnotic and my favorite part is like halfway through when they visibly slow down and you realize that really is a human lol

it's art.

trying to jack off
Dec 31, 2007

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

this should be at evo

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

My face looked like the smiley on the top when i was watching this

Sockmafia
Mar 4, 2015

In Training posted:

the meticulous pathing is hypnotic and my favorite part is like halfway through when they visibly slow down and you realize that really is a human lol

I seriously thought I was being taken for a ride until that point. The mouse movements are so precise.

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

goferchan posted:

My face looked like the smiley on the top when i was watching this

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
thanks op, that's really fascinating and i never would've guessed

One Man Trash
Jun 6, 2013

sector_corrector posted:

thanks op, that's really fascinating and i never would've guessed

I'm glad so many people found it interesting!

He's a great fps player as well since his mouse control is so fine.

I'll ask him to record a Beginner level game for you. If you checked the Minesweeper leaderboard site, people clear Beginner games in mere seconds; the top Minesweeper player has a time of 0.49s. My friend's time is 1.28s.

Fungah!
Apr 30, 2011

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

this s frickin insane

Chilled Milk
Jun 22, 2003

No one here is alone,
satellites in every home

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

fully sick

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

decided to go looking around and found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTl1o3sV5fw

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

Control Volume posted:

decided to go looking around and found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTl1o3sV5fw

gently caress

Tomato Burger
Jun 18, 2007
The secret is granola.

One Man Trash posted:

I'll ask him to record a Beginner level game for you. If you checked the Minesweeper leaderboard site, people clear Beginner games in mere seconds; the top Minesweeper player has a time of 0.49s. My friend's time is 1.28s.

There are a small number of Beginner boards where the mines are positioned in just the right way that you click once and win. People just refresh the game thousands of times until they hit one of those.

That Expert run was super impressive.

Wormskull
Aug 23, 2009

One Man Trash posted:

There are Minesweeper clients that record games. Poeple play games whenever and their best times from Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert difficulties are added up. This total time number is what is used to rank them on a leaderboard.

This is the worldwide leaderboard: http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html. If you click on someone's time you can download a file that lets you view the game in a client.

This is my aforementioned friend getting an amazing time on Expert difficulty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhp7ypJW730

My friend from the forums, Ragg, if you voice chat with him sometimes you can hear him clicking extremely fast and sighing and stuff like in between rounds of a game or something and it's him playing Epic Minesweeper like a God.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Can someone please explain the huge volume of stats being tracked and what all the acronyms stand for.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

I think flags is the number of flags he uses.

sector_corrector
Jan 18, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo

In Training posted:

Can someone please explain the huge volume of stats being tracked and what all the acronyms stand for.

i think it's things like mouse position for the game recording

Tomato Burger
Jun 18, 2007
The secret is granola.

sector_corrector posted:

i think it's things like mouse position for the game recording

Guessing that it can be used to detect AI play if the movement is too unnatural. Not as a main feature, but as one element.

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dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
animevo gonna be hosting a puyo puyo tetris tourney

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