I just set a new personal best time at expert level: 212 seconds ! A friend of mine has a PB of something like 160 sec. He did admit to getting lucky with his first click, and clearing a fair amount of the board.

I also have a personal mission to play Freecell through every game. I'm up to 4629, with the exceptions of 3685 and 4467, which are both complete bastards. I think I started about three years ago. Might make it afore I die.

I realy can't be bothered with freecell, I used to spend hours trying to beat one gf on Jezzball though.

I'm currently cursing SimCity 4 - fun but it chugs really badly at times. Anybody else frustrated by it?



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FWIW, My best times for minesweeper are:

Beginner: 12 seconds
Intermediate: 49 seconds
Expert: 155 seconds



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yeah, I get frustrated with SimCity 4 as well. I like to create Utopias and it's kinda hard with this version. I do play it the regular way as well, but occasionally I like to use the cheats to do the Utopia-towns and I haven't found many yet and the one money cheat they do have you have to use a ZILLION times to get anything done!

I don't have chugging problems with it though. My puter is pretty fast and I have a LOT of RAM, but it does occasionally freeze up just before I was going to save a complicated configuration! now THAT makes me crazy!

It can take up to fuive minutes to save my cities now, although I am playing about 8 cities in a region, so it has to up[date most of them. Biggest city is finally over 105,000 people, region closing to 400,000... Despite this the most profit I ever make is about 1,500 so it takes ages to be able to build anything. Best way I've found is to have dirty cities to cater for dirty industry and then residential and commercial cities with good connections to them and only a smattering of hi-tech. It's amazing how lifelike it is sometimes - one subway link is currently operating at 850% capacity, which souinds pretty close to London...

What's everyone's best score on Snake? Mine's 1721 on a Nokia 3210.



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I'm more of an Age of Empires 2 Conquerors edition girl!

Minesweeper? I think I did 140 on expert but Sarah is MUCH quicker, so I gave up.

I like simcity4, but more in the god mode of building and shaping terrain. Once I get the city up and running (for a given value of 'running'), it all seems to go pear-shaped.

Top tip - build an entire region that's nice and interconnected. Don't bother with any services until you've got a few thousand people all wanting to riot, and even then don't rush to provide anything other than schools. One good idea is to connect up the utilities and flog it to another city next door. Once it goes bust as it can't afford it any more, save, exit and then destroy the city next door, and build a new one. The more connections the better the city will grow, as industry and commerce has more markets to reach. It also gets a lot easier to get things like universities once you've got a large regional population. Don't forget to micromanage their budgets either - a uni appears to cost thousands, but this is at full capacity. Even in my biggest city to date I only need to spend about 300 on it. I found it hard to get to this stage though, it's a bit crap at telling you precisely why the entire population decided to move out en masse. I found that water was a key factor - if it dries up everyone buggers off. Getting people to commute is easy, bus stops become more popular as the congestion increases (bugger it telling you that the stop is stopping growth) and a tube station in an industrial only city connected to a residential city will get huge traffic, even if it isn't connected to a station on the other side! I've managed toget my transport network to turn in a profit on some cities, if I was feeling cruel.



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poetscientistdrinker wrote:

> I've managed
> to get my transport network to turn in a profit on some cities,
> if I was feeling cruel.

You are Stagecoach and I claim my £5.



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Oh yeah? Do Stagecoach cut off all the roads to force commuters to use the trains?? Mwahahaha!



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Minesweeper, glad you asked:
My best score on expert is 112 seconds, yup, one hundred and twelve seconds. And I have independant witnesses who can confirm me getting at least 126.
Well, everyone has to be good at something, and minesweeper is much more fun than actually working.



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Minesweeper... can't remember exactly because it's so long since I was physically able to play it because of my shot wrists, but David's right, I was a lot faster than he was. Unfortunately I have no idea whether I managed to beat Fuzz's record score or not, but I do recall that I never got down to double figures, but also I was definitely more than ten seconds faster than David. Somewhere between 100 and 130, then, and I'm sorry I can't remember any more clearly than that.

My dad's trying to play through every game of FreeCell too. My dad is like that.



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Sarah

I managed 6 seconds on beginner level once. Sheer luck... Done 212 on expert, can't remember the intermediate times.

I sense a minesweeper session coming on. More interesting than converting WordPerfect documents into Word 2k.


And as for freecell, iirc there are half a dozen levels which are out-and-out impossible...

Oweing to a technical hitch, I don't have my minesweeper number sheet with me, so I don't know which game I'm on. I will confess that there was one game I couldn't do on my own. A friend worked it out and sent me the moves. Once I'd followed the first dozen, I worked the rest out for myself. Now there's honest for you.

My snake record is now 1761 nd I reckon I'd have gone on to the 1800s if it wasn't for a dodgy set of points just after Charlbury.



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When I wrote Minesweeper record sheet, in last post, I meant Freecell, of course. Obvious, really.

we knew what you meant. We were just too polite to point out your tpyo.

How sweet. Thanx

Note to self:

Don't play 'Best Air Guitar Album in World...Ever !' when trying to get a good score at Minesweeper.
It's not easy to headbang and click accurately at the same time.