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The highscore for Expert is difficult to be beaten. But when I have time I'll try

Please change the way to publish newest equal times first, because now everyone is resetting the highscore to create a new one to become first

Erk! Gadget, I've deleted your user name! Sorry! I'm not used to this forum software yet

Anyway, I've changed the "upload time" routine so that an equal score with the same name isn't updated. Someone could still get to the top by resetting scores, playing again and getting an equal score and inserting it with a different name, but if they can get that score twice they might as well go for the extra second with their own name

Nice one Philip!
I see I've got some competition on Expert at last!
245 is a great score, but I'm sure I can beat it... just give me a day or two! 

I love this game so much. It is a huge improvement on the oldschool minesweeper.

Think i am losing my vision here. Excellent game, thank you very much. Preparing myself mentally for the expert level. Can't even find the genius level. Maybe that's a sign...

Foster

Hey, how do you like the new Rankings tables?  Congrats to Stephan for topping the list, but I haven't given up yet!

I like the rankings, and particularly the weighted rankings.  I'm wondering, however, if there might be a more optimal weight relationship between the levels?


~Lloyd

how do you get into world ranking ???
my score is better than some listed 

Congratulations on the genius time Yariv. It's amazing how the times get so much better every day... I see you are building quite a following here. Keep it up.

Any thoughts of developing even bigger levels?

The more the better in my opinion.

haw to get(beginner) 1sec ??? ??? ??? ???

I'm thinking of changing the weightings slightly as 10x on beginner makes it very hard to catch up with the other levels. Mind you, a 2-second player deserves a good lead over a 3-second player, for example, so I don't want to make it too low. I suggest 8x for beginner, what does everyone think?

Nonosweeper Pro users can now play tournaments! I've been working on this feature for the past few days and it's likely to still have some bugs in it, so comments and reports are very welcome. Anyway, give it a try!

In reply to the suggestion of 5-2-1 weightings: although it isn't in my best interests since I'm hopeless at intermediate, I personally think a weighting of 3 times the expert score is better than 2, particularly looking at the spreads of the top scores for those two levels. The beginner weighting is a tough call though!

Thanks for the praise, Liz!

A "donate" link sounds like a great idea (specially as I've recently paid for a new web host and a download.com listing for Nonosweeper so I've made a loss on it so far!) so I've added one at the bottom of the main and best times pages; everyone feel free to use it as often as you like!
Or use this link:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=info%40nonosweeper.com

Another good way to help the site is to tell all your friends about it and get them addicted too - and better still ask anyone you know with a website to link to Nonosweeper.com.
Mind you, I'm grateful to all users just for playing the game and making things more competitive  

There aren't any cheats or easter eggs in the game, and I've done my best to stop people cheating/hacking so the best times table reflects the genuine records. I'd be happy to put easter eggs in though, if you want!

I can't say for sure how 1 second on beginner was achieved, but I believe it's possible, even if it requires playing the game thousands of times until the right grid comes up, e.g.:
000000
XXX000
XXXXXX
XXXXXX
XXXXXX
XXXXXX
This can be done in 1 second, I guess.

Anyway, thanks again Liz - I hope to see you on the Genius scoreboard soon!

Oh, I almost forgot - have you tried World of CryptoPics? It has even more "weird squares" than Nonosweeper!

Having checked the nonosweeper best times and quickly cross-referenced it with the records for minesweeper, i can see that there are some remarkable similarities. This also leads me to the conclusion that i need to improve my technique more than anything else here, because there is no way in hell i could get less than 100 seconds on the expert level of minesweeper. Not even close. I am under the impression that my fingers are just not fast enough, but that can't be right.

So, where are the tips and hints on how to achieve good times, because my mouse is tired of taking the blame for everything here...

Hi Nonosweeper Fans,

as it becomes more and more difficult to beat the top times, I suggest a new form of ranking: For every level, a player get a "Best Average" score by adding his personal Top10 times. So, a "lucky punch" would count as much as now, because you need 10 lucky punches (which obviously aren't lucky anymore then) to have a really low Top10 Total.

Example:
Player 1 Beginner:
3+3+3+3+3+4+4+4+4+4 = 35

Player 2 Beginner:
2+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4=38

So, player 2 is listed in front of player 1 in the normal ranking, even if he obviously had one single lucky game. In contrary to him, player 1 seems to be able to finish more constantly in a low time.

Maybe, this would give some new competition to the rankings... What do you think?

Indeed, it would be better if one can be listed without having 10 games in a special level. I propose a penalty time. I'll think about a good type of penalty.

Merry Christmas!

Thanks Seb, I do my best!

If anyone wants the Pro version but doesn't have a credit card, please send me an e-mail and we'll work something out. I don't want to stop any real fans from getting the game!

Normally, I play int with at least 95% marks. If one gets a lucky game, one can still stop marking in the end when everything is obvious.

Another thing, mainly to the address of Yariv: All those coming from minesweeper are, I think, fans of Camtasia screenvideos. Camtasia can be used for nonosweeper as well, of course, but as the size of the nonosweeper window is changing from game to game, sometimes, a part of the board is missing, sometimes, one records parts of the background. Therefore, I would appreciate a built-in video recording tool which allows to make videos of one's games "automatically". What do you think? Would that be a big effort for you?

@Roli: Of course, I enjoy . On the other hand, I'm astonished every day how you can get low 20s in intermediate.

About your video: Why don't you make a Nonosweeper video section on your own HP?

(nur am Rande: Find's immer irgendwie lächerlich, wenn sich zwei Deutsche auf Englisch hin und her schreiben )

I'll make some Nonosweeper section as well for my homepage - hopefully today so that tomorrow, everyone can read some facts about my nonosweeper career.

To those who wonder how a 63 in expert is possible: After playing that board, it's obvious that in nonosweeper (as well in MS minesweeper), there are "dreamboards" who deserve such a name on every single square. This special expert I got my 63 on didn't have a single guessing situation, but did have lots of rows, columns, and parts of the two which could be solved in one "act of going through the whole line". I'll publish the screenshot as soon as possible

> Big congratulations to Roli and Stephan (x2!) for not only getting new world records, but also for being so far ahead of even the second-placed players!   

Thank you. But don't give up. Everyone can get a good or even a dreamboard, so the records might be fast, but possibly not fast enough to stay for eternity

> Adding an automatic video recording option looks like a lot of work (meaning that I'd have to learn how to do it first).

Rodrigo Camargo (see link in the minesweeper section of my HP) included an auto-recording option in his minesweeper clone. Maybe, he can give you some hints.

> I wonder if there's a way to trim Camtasia videos after you've made them?

I've already checked out that, but didn't find anything useful.

> Also thanks everyone for bringing the forums to life and making Nonosweeper a success.

We have to thank for inventing a really GREAT game!

Okay, since today I think I can say that I'm close to sub-20. I managed a 21, 4 x 22s and a lot of 23s today. Out of respect to Jon taking out anonymity and impossibility of the 1 in beginner I decided to put a 21 video on my hp as well. Maybe it'll help some of you. Otherwise I'm so damn angry and sad, cause I got a (the) dreamboard in beginner today and only managed a 2. Probably I missed my only chance with it. I'll upload the screenshot to my page as well. Happy sweeping...

Thanks for the comments on my 1. It's not that hard to get a 2 second game. I've managed 5 2's in three minutes. You just need to take some chances instead of "over-analyzising" both the vertical and horizontal clues.

Congrats with your new beginner record, then. How many 2's did you get before that 1?

Congrats to Roland and Jon for their 1's. Roland, your 19 is awesome!

And thanks for mentioning my 2. I played hard for about one hour until I finally got that 2. My beginner statistics (2x1, 3x22) and yours have lots of parallelity, with the only (but important ) difference that I'm 1 second slower in general...

Yes, you really did. But I stopped playing beginner immediately after getting my 2, so it's probably not really comparable...

It's nice that minesweepers don't completely dominate the list. This Gero seems to have improved a lot lately, and I never saw him on the minesweeper sites. Does anyone know more about him and his background (just curious).

Well, it seems that he actually has been playing minesweeper indeed. Should have checked his profile first.

@Jon: I never was on Minesweeper Sites before, becaue I wasn't able to play the Clone version. On my old PC i was slower playing the Clone instead of the Windows versions. After my friends and I started our own homepage we got in contact to other Sweepers like Elmar and Stephan and many others who (especially Elmar) encouraged me and my friend to send the times to Gregoire. So I started with pretty good times.
I started Nonosweeper in November, but never played a lot. But in the beginnig of 2005, I really got crazy on this game.
@Stephan: My current records are 1-16-64!!!! That's a big improvement

To Yariv//
1.I think it would be heplful if in the "Best Times" section there is 5th subsection named "Today's"(next to best times,rankings,records history and list of users),containing a list of all daily scores,taken from the "This month" list.In this way it won't be a daily ranking but just a clearer view of the daily scores   

2.Is there way(or its erased)to see the previous month(s) ranking(s)?

I think both of those can probably be done - I'll put  them on my list!

Nonosweeper rocks even if I do suck at it...

12-115-337 =(

I'm ok at beginner I guess and I know I could get sub 100 on intermediate.