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 Q: What in all the Hells? FineSweeper is Minesweeper. It's not even a clone. It's Minesweeper. Q: Yeah, but... In the classic Minesweeper you are only given one chance, which works for a casual solitaire game, but Finesweeper adds two important rules that change the feels of the game and, if I'm frank, make it more fun.
Q: But, it's Minesweeper! That's not a question. Anyway, as a great lover of Minesweeper, Finesweeper hits me in my addiction gland. I love this game so much, I will sometimes stop playing Skyrim to make time for it. Q: Spoilers okay? No! DO NOT REVEAL THE SECRET ENDING OF MINESWEEPER TO YOUR FRIENDS! Not even black boxing. To do so would summon the Eighth Quire of Nyarlathotep from the inner workings of Gabe Newell's intestine and they will sing the song that ends the world! Q: That reminds me, when are you going to finish your Anchorhead LP? Uh... Q: Why should I watch? Because I'm not just going to play Finesweeper, I'm going to teach you how to play, too. Minesweeper has simple rules, but plenty of patterns and tricks on how to think about it. Eventually, Minesweeper turns into a 50/50 chance of blowing up, but now that we have multiple lives, that no longer feels unfair. Still, I'm going to train you in every trick I know. I've recorded myself playing Finesweeper from Level 1 to somewhere in the 40's (which always kills me) and will slowly step through what I'm doing and what I'm thinking. My hope is that you can take my tips, load up Minesweeper, and beat your first Expert difficulty game! If you don't want to pay for Finesweeper, here's a link to minesweeperonline.com Q: How often will you update? About one video a week. Because I'm stopping in the middle of play to explain, this will be a heavily edited run of Finesweeper. That takes time and I have other things to do. Once I'm done with my run, we'll see what else happens. If you don't understand something I'm doing, just yell and I might include it in the next video. Alright, that's enough talk. LET'S GO! Videos Part 1: Levels 1 - 14 Part 2: Levels 15 - 23 Part 3: Levels 24 - 32 Grimwit fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Aug 14, 2015 |
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Looks interesting. Where does Nyarlathotep come in?
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Jul 22, 2015 20:23
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Ghostwoods posted:Looks interesting. Where does Nyarlathotep come in?  NO SPOILERS! Do you want to tempt the Crawling Chaos?
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Jul 22, 2015 22:12
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That video was fun. But it tempts me to fall of the wagon and play minesweeper again.
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Jul 23, 2015 20:52
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It got me to play Minesweeper again and it confirmed that yes, Minesweeper sucks when you only get one life.
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Jul 23, 2015 20:54
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loving pussy rear end little bitches who need lives for minesweeper. there's no danger, tension or thrill if you have multiple lives.
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Jul 23, 2015 20:58
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Grimwit posted:
I dooooooo. 
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Jul 23, 2015 22:38
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I'd never heard of Finesweeper, and this is a really cool look into the strategy behind minesweeper that I'd never really thought of before.
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Jul 26, 2015 00:52
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I never expected I could enjoy watching someone play Mine Sweeper ...
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Jul 29, 2015 15:22
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Sue posted:I never expected I could enjoy watching someone play Mine Sweeper ... 
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Jul 29, 2015 16:20
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Sue posted:I never expected I could enjoy watching someone play Mine Sweeper ... There are been some good LP's on Minesweeper here. There was one where we all were in the Canadian Army learning to sweep for mines and dying left and right. Meanwhile, Episode 2! Part 2: Levels 15 - 23 Me thinks there maybe 5 parts to this total. After editing, I started realizing that you only need a few simple concepts and a hand full of patterns to win at Minesweeper. Eventually I'll get to a couple of strats that cover only Fine Sweeper.
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Aug 5, 2015 18:51
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That's some fine sweeping there.
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Aug 5, 2015 22:54
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cyoa finesweeper, a test of what we've learned.
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Aug 6, 2015 04:15
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Next new episode. Part 3: Levels 24 - 32 In this video, I looked up some history about Minesweeper and how it got made and eventually put onto Windows 3.1. Hope you enjoy.
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Aug 14, 2015 00:23
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I've found a minesweeper-ish clone called Mamono Sweeper. The big difference between this and minesweeper is that each 'mine' is actually a monster with a power level. To kill the monsters you need to be the same level or higher. You get experience killing monsters(even if they are of a higher level), and you have HP that goes down if you kill a higher level monster. You will open a tile, and the numbers refer to the total level of all surrounding monsters in any tiles. Also, if you've uncovered a monster you can click on it to get the number for his square for more information(Imagine asking the mines where other mines are). You can also mark numbers onto the unclicked tiles for reminders and what you think is under the tile, but those do not count to a win like flags in minesweeper So that set of 5's in the upper right of the cleared area equate to there being a level 5 monster in the corner of it, and the 9 next to them is saying 'in the three tiles to my right there are a total of 4 power of monsters) Kill the monsters (unless in blind mode) to win. Lose all HP to fail. Controls and instructions are on the page, but are in engrish. There a few difficulty levels: Easy, Normal(the link above), Huge, Extreme, Blind, Huge & Extreme, Huge & Blind. Easy, Normal, Huge are the size of the grid. Blind makes it like regular minesweeper, just clear all non-monster tiles. Extreme raises the amount of xp you need to level up, to the point of needing to clear around 99% of a single level of monster before you can move up.
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Aug 14, 2015 06:00
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This thread should've used the 'AMINE' tag.
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Aug 14, 2015 11:48
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azsedcf posted:I've found a minesweeper-ish clone called Mamono Sweeper. Huge + Extreme is a hell of a thing. I've cleared it once (and most of my failures have been a misclick).
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bewilderment posted:This thread should've used the 'AMINE' tag. I don't even know how to tag threads. azsedcf posted:I've found a minesweeper-ish clone called Mamono Sweeper. This makes me think of Desktop Dungeons. Like, a lot. I'll have to nab it and see if it can satisfy my deranged minesweeper obsession. Thanks, Azsedcf.
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Aug 14, 2015 20:19
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Your day has come, Grimwit.
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Aug 20, 2015 00:38
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Imagine if you are almost done and the last mine is a perfect 50/50 chance. losing it that way would give me a stroke.
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Aug 20, 2015 08:51
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Air is lava! posted:Imagine if you are almost done and the last mine is a perfect 50/50 chance. losing it that way would give me a stroke. For that reason, I would never attempt such a mine grid.
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Sorry for the HUGE delay in video time... Wait... WHAT??!?! Suit up, men! This is what we trained for! --==--==-- Ahem --==--==-- So. I first want to appologies about the time off I've taken from both Anchorhead and Minesweeper. Life sometimes gets in the way. I won't go into too much detail, but insect infestation is part of it. Anyway, I have yet to comb through the last bit of fine-sweeper footage and I think it will be the last video, just to wrap things up. *** IMPORTANT *** What do you want to see or have explained in this last video? There are a few patterns I can show that don't come up anywhere in the game I'm playing (like the 1-2-2-1 pattern). And I'm willing to do research to answer questions. Call this a interest-check/AMA combo.
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Aug 26, 2015 21:55
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I really like the pattern walkthroughs, they make me feel almost somewhat competent at minesweeper beyond basic arithmetic. I'd love to see more of that, personally.
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Aug 27, 2015 00:39
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Grimwit posted:Call this a interest-check/AMA combo. Yeah, the pattern stuff was actively useful. Maybe a recap, along with a brief mention of others that didn't come up?
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Aug 27, 2015 13:35
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I thought Minesweeper always gave you the benefit in 50-50 situations so you never needed more than one life.
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Aug 27, 2015 15:42
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MartianAgitator posted:I thought Minesweeper always gave you the benefit in 50-50 situations so you never needed more than one life. Alas, no no no no no no no... no. no. It's a no. In fact, sometimes it seems like it's stacked against you, but there is a way to raise your chances of stepping on a safe tile. Like shooting for the 1/3 chances. That's why it's so important to mark what you know first. Plenty of times I've had a 50-50 chance, but moved on to the rest of the board and cleared around to the other side, turning that 50% into a 100% known. Still. Dem' 50's, yo.
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