That point before A: Occam's razor: I'm faster than you and legit. Shouldn't be that hard of a pill to swallow for you. I could never beat Kamil at Minesweeper despite being very close at times and beating everyone else by a far margin. And yet we eventually became friends and encouraged each other to keep improving. It's not that difficult. You should definitely give it a try. Just the encouraging and taking it as a challenge part. You don't seem like a perosn I want to be friends with.

A) It's well documented who I am. The nickname EWQMinesweeper has been around for probably 11 years by now. I've made hundreds of posts in this and the minesweeper.info forum, written over a hundred thousand lines of chat in the #minesweeper IRC, loads of youtube videos, an active reddit account, been to and hosted Minesweeper and Nonosweeper tournaments in Munich, Stirling and Zurich. It's honestly solely your fault that you don't know who I am. I have met probably around 30 Minesweeper players in person, some of which who also play or used to play Nonosweeper. Stephan and I have met in person at the 2010 and 2012 Minesweeper World Championships that I hosted in Munich.

In summary in this community there is less doubt of who I am than who you are. Going by transition of who has met whom and Nonosweeper tournaments - and is therefore legit - you are the one who is not known by anyone else.

B) You're not following the tournaments closely enough. Stephan is strong on the faster boards, Lutz is awesome on the difficult boards that take a bit longer but is also a wildcard for most other boards and I'm an allrounder with some particular strengths such as unusual dimensions and boards that are similar to the standard levels or just take very long to solve. The gap between us and the rest is so big because we play a lot more than them. We also seem to be interested in talking about tournament boards and our strategies. Did you actually watch the videos we three posted after your last accusation? Clearly shows 3 different right hands and different setups and computers.

C) Pretty sure that longevity alone dictates that Caren, Bobo and Spot are real. Also Caren has been part of the mailing list for as long as I've been around here. QQ and Mike are legit too. They are known from Minesweeper and I'm friends with both of them, though I haven't met them yet.

My conlusion: Old man yells at could. You've been too inactive and are now completely out of touch. No idea why you are running this agenda but so far you've only been a mild, temporary annoyance who could back up any of their claims.

Also: You still haven't explained the two things you think you have found in my videos.

@EWQM: I forgot to ask you something on my last post. It is about these words:

Quote:

Are you inviting me to join your restricted elite group where playing under certain rules is considered to be legit?
The answer is: Not interested, i'll keep sweeping under my own rules. I'm old but still can make 1.40s, 10.60s and 48.15s.


@Stephan:

Caren may be a real person but anybody can play with her account by knowing (with her permission) the account code. Lutz is not even a real person.
Another interesting case is Maruda. I just can't imagine Jan Farnik playing all these years.
So, who is the mastermind behind these accounts? Can only be Stephan, maybe EWQM and possibly Yariv himself.
Whoever the mastermind is, soon or later nono website will be permanently down like mallet website is.

You claim that EWQM is "just fast".
But when Fritz participated in Schwandorf Open 2017 he wasn't "that fast". In real life he got modest and honest scores with no medals!
You can find them here:https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/SchwandorfOpen2017/results/by_...
In computer life things are quite different cause EWQM explodes as everybody knows...
These are the facts but who cares anyway!

Actually Hexx I been telling Fritz for years I'm not so sure about you.  Your minesweeper scores were compatible to my, certainly not on Fritz's level, Manuel Heider's and Qq (Michael Gottlieb).  Fritz posted records or close to records on many games similar to these, you only excelled here (and malletmania).  I speak for myself my account is real, my name is Michael Rabich from NYC, hence NYmike.

@Stephan:
As the oldest member of this forum (http://www.simplismgames.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?action=ml), i say the following words:
Don't you even dare to ban me!
There are issues to be solved here and, as a reminder, your misson as moderator failed completly in Mr "****" case plus the fact you collude with EWQM.
In exchange I'll not be so agressive and won't use the word cheat this time.

@EWQM:
I thought you smarter than that. It is possible to evaluate skill by setting a parallel between 2 similar tasks. Cubing (real life) and sweeping (PC life) require the same skills (fast fingers, hand-eye coordination and pattern analysis). However your scores couldn't be more different. How to explain that? The problem is the sweeping task cause you are overrated too much.

@Lutz:
Real person or not the pro account "Lutz Guenther" is a mere puppet. Case closed.

Whatevs', I'm fed up with this.

Sent a mail to Stephan, Lutz, Caren, Mike and Yariv, asking Yariv for a decision and suggested hexx being banned in case nothing else helps. No need to bother the rest of the mailing list with this if they aren't playing anymore.

Hi all, it's me, just popping down from my cloud!
As you probably haven't noticed, I've taken down the Mallet Mania site due to lack of interest, but I'm happy to see that records are still being broken here!

@hexx
I agree with the others that you need to stop making unsupported accusations against the other players. Not only have you not provided evidence for them, but I can't even understand what grounds you have for suspicion other than the fact that some players are substantially faster than you.
As I think someone mentioned, I released an updated version of Nonosweeper a year or two ago so that the duplicate seed exploit could no longer be used. (Test that out if you like.) So I'm clearly not accepting cheating if I find it.
If you have some specific reason or evidence to back up your claims, then please e-mail it to me and I will investigate. (I have access to some non-public information such as IP addresses and how/when the game was purchased, and while I obviously can't pass that on to you I could use it to verify claims.)
Either way, you need to stop posting accusations here or you will be banned. I don't know why you continue to post here anyway if you don't believe ANY of the other posters. Maybe it would be better to just play the game for yourself and retire from the forums?

@Yariv:
They aren't substantially faster than me. Their PC's are substantially faster than mine. They increase CPU clock speed in order to boost scores.
You should investigate that, but you probably can't detect nothing. Only by watching vids it is possible to see that something doesn't fit.

@Stephan:
I'm calm down. Otherwise i would be talking about your 53s. You aren't a target to me. My real target is EWQM, wanna know why?
I hate him.
I hate him so much.
I hate him so much that i'll use all my "fire and fury" to hunt him down and reveal all his dirties.
This feeling started in s69t2 when he ch**ted on me with that "9.44s" . Over time that feeling is getting worse and worse and worse...

What helpful information about me do you want?

@EWQM:
What was the nono version you managed to get the 38, 78 and 100?

@hexx:
Yariv said everything that is important.

But anyway, I invested some time today to try to understand your accusations.
- A 9.44 by EWQM. in S69T2 is surely fast, but without having the video or screenshot, there is no chance to say that this time might have been achieved by cheating. On such boards, the arrangement of the few mines on the large grid decides whether you have a chance to play a very fast time.
- Watched EWQM. late 48.83 and 117.95 (@EWQM.: The link to the genius vid isn't displayed correctly in the forum post). I can't see what you are talking of getting busted and so on. The only things I can see are a) EWQM. has high speed in detecting safe patterns, b) he also needs time to think about next step if patterns are not so obvious any more, c) in the 48 vid, there is room for improvement as some rows/columns are not played "to the end" ideally.
- Don't know what should be the problem with my expert 53.
- Helpful information: We have some former Nono profile e.g. with your name (but info has been removed), some early forum post that tells you're day broker etc. That's all. Google search doesn't offer hardly any helping match that gives evidence. We don't know a photography of yourself, I think. We don't know whether you have some Social Media account.