There are 193 members, 2 observer states (Vatican City, Palestine)Īnd 4 non-member states that are members of UN organisations (Cook Islands, Kosovo, Niue, Chinese Taipei). It is based on United Nations membership status per the Wikipedia article listing The list of countries used for country rankings is not a political statement. In 2008, a player hacked Minesweeper Clone 0.97 to show 3BV before starting the game and this allowed players to choose and play the For example, using a program to read mine locations from computer memory and abusing Board Cycles to play Knowing information about a board in advance is cheating. (unlimited) but for historical reasons only these 5 levels are used for rankings. You can play larger boards using Arbiter (30x30) and Minesweeper X
Windows XP changed the Beginner grid to 9x9 while the maximum board size in all versions is 30x24. The original Microsoft Minesweeper levels were Beginner (8x8), Intermediate (9x9) and Expert (30x16). For example, a Beginner (8x8) game with 63 mines has only 64 uniqueīoards and all 64 boards can be won with 1 click. The density reduces the number of unique boards and makes it easier to win by luck instead of skill.
This remains the official limit for the density rankings. Microsoft Minesweeper allowed a maximum density of (1-x)(1-y) mines. Beginner games solved in 1 click were banned in 2005 and "lucky" games were banned in 2011. The rankings only accept games solved with skill. To give less weight to the random clicks used to start the game. The rankings for 3BVS enforce a limit of 10 for Beginner Rankings for TimeĮnforce 3BV limits of 2 (Beginner), 30 (Intermediate) and 100 (Expert) to ensure the rankings reward skill. Boards are randomly generated so it is theoretically possible for a Beginner, Intermediate or Expert game to be solved in 1 click. It is a popular way to measure board difficulty and a popular ranking is 3BVS (your effective You can upload your Arbiter history to join theģBV is the minimum number of left clicks needed to win a game. Not create a history file! Viennasweeper (name.csv) and Arbiter (stats.dat) automatically save all finished games. Minesweeper X is the only version that can save statistics for lost games but its default setting does History FilesOfficial versions can save your game history with statistics. To watch old Clone videos from the China Ranking change your language settings. Which point the China Ranking switched to Arbiter. It was the only official version for the China Ranking until being banned at Minesweeper Clone was an official version from 2004-2013. Arbiter allows you to customise how videos are saved and named. X has an "Auto-Options" menu with some simple rules for saving videos. Viennasweeper (*rmv) automatically saves all finished games. To save more videos review your settings. Official versions automatically save your best times. This sometimes causes confusion because 49.01s is a 50 second game and not "Sub50". Official clones start decimal timers at 0.00 seconds. Microsoft Minesweeper starts the clock at 1 second on the first click. Other world rankings use highest sum of solving speed (3BVS) or highest sum of mines (Density). Ties are broken starting with the most difficulty level for example, a player with 5-20-75 will be ranked higher than a player with 5-19-76 because they have a better Players are ranked by the fastest sum of their time records for Beginner (8x8 with 10 mines), Intermediate (16x16 with 40 mines) and Expert (30x16 with 99 mines). The fact the Community has developed secure Clones with video recording. All Microsoft versions were banned in 2008 due to Cheats and Windows Vista was banned in 2006 because it introduced theĪbility to play the same board multiple times. Microsoft Minesweeper is no longer allowed on the World Ranking except for historical scores. Popular version for tournaments played at Scoreganizer. Official versions have identical gameplay to the original Microsoft Minesweeper ("Winmine") but save videos with statistics.Īccurate clone of Winmine with unlimited density options. Register and upload your Minesweeper videos to join the rankings.
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