Fucking minesweeper is pissing me off!

[LostInAnomie]

I used to play it all the time on my old PC, and I just recently started playing it again on my new one. The old version stuck to the rules though. If a number had a mine in any of the 8 surrounding boxes the number would indicate the correct number of mines. If it was touching 1 mine, it would be a 1. If it was touching 2 mines, it would be a 2. If it was touching 3 mines, it would be a 3, and so forth. The new version though doesn't play by those rules. If it's a 1 that means "1 in most cases, but it could be up to 3", and so forth. It's a load of fucking bullshit!

[Tobin S.]

1. I think Bill Gates should hang for that alone

You don't go fucking around with a man's minesweeper!

I wasted a lot of time with that game. I was so obsessed with it that I could not let it be until I successfully completed the 100 mine challenge. Even that wasn't good enough for me, though. I then became obsessed with beating my time. It was a downward spiral into insanity which is why I now take head meds and have had minesweeper removed from my computer.

[LostInAnomie]

2. Not only that...

... but I've also caught it cheating me on the number of mines twice. I've even had people come in to confirm my count isn't off.

[quakerboy]

3. What?

I have never heard of such a thing

[ccharles000]

4. The only game I really play on my computer is mahjong

[kentauros]

5. Try Clickomania instead

http://www.clickomania.ch/click/ClassicClick.html

:D

[hobbit709]

6. My favorite time waster

[kentauros]

8. I introduced that game to friends at one workplace way back when.

A week later, the general manager issued an email-memo telling people to stop wasting their time playing that game :P

[hobbit709]

9. I started playing it back in the Win95/98 days.

[kentauros]

10. About the same OS versions for me, too

I still prefer the "classic" version over the updated one. You can't change very many parameters with the new one, including background images...

[Deja Q]

7. Vista or Win7?

Last time I played minesweeper, it was on Vista - worked just fine.

Might be Win7. They gussied it up and probably had some guy who couldn't know how to do basic maths do the programming...