Basic Computer Games

Shelob's Hubby · 09-15-2004, 11:06 AM

I was just wondering what basic game people play the most when their on the computer. When I say basic game I mean like Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire, Tetris, Hearts, etc. So send in what basic game you are addicted to, why you like it, and your high score (if the game has one).

I personally like Minesweeper because it is all about probability and quickly thinking about the numbers. In case you can't tell, I like math. For all you miners out there my high scores are Beginner: 6 seconds Intermediate: 50 seconds and Expert: 172 seconds. Beat that!!!

Mercutio · 09-15-2004, 03:33 PM

I don't have time for these...when I'm online or on the computer I'm on the moot or...emailing people (guess who).

I do play Internet Spades (no surprise there).

Shelob's Hubby · 09-15-2004, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercutio

I don't have time for these...when I'm online or on the computer I'm on the moot or...emailing people (guess who).

I do play Internet Spades (no surprise there).

So that's where you got so good.

Radagast The Brown · 09-15-2004, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Shelob's Hubby

I personally like Minesweeper because it is all about probability and quickly thinking about the numbers. In case you can't tell, I like math. For all you miners out there my high scores are Beginner: 6 seconds Intermediate: 50 seconds and Expert: 172 seconds. Beat that!!!

I did 32 in Intermidate, same with beginner like you though.

I can't rememebr my expert one, but I like it most - as it's more calm, and you need to think more. I haven't played minesweeper a long time now...
When I'm really bored, I play Hearts.

The problem with Hearts on the computer is that it's hard to think, as the computer plays so fast, I tend to play fast as well.

***Jonathan*** · 09-15-2004, 05:10 PM

I used to play these games a lot a few years ago but like Mercutio, I just don't have time anymore.
I beat Minesweeper's beginner's level in 6 seconds too. I was so proud of myself. I've starting to play minesweeper on MSN and maybe I'll get addicted to the game once more...

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 09-15-2004, 10:19 PM

Moving to the Entertainment forum.

Mercutio · 09-17-2004, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Shelob's Hubby

So that's where you got so good.

Well first I learned how to play from Chris and then I started playing online once in a great while. So I actually got most practice with real people.

trolls' bane · 09-18-2004, 07:57 PM

Spider Solitair, and Mine sweeper (which I just found out the secret for

)

Janny · 09-30-2004, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mercutio

I don't have time for these...when I'm online or on the computer I'm on the moot or...emailing people (guess who).

I do play Internet Spades (no surprise there).

I used to play internet spades.

Actually, I kinda gave it up because everyone always leaves and you have to play with three CPUs. I like a bit of reversi when I can tear myself from MSN, NAGTY and the Moot.

PS. I once got 0 seconds on beginner minesweeper. System bug.

**Nurvingiel** · 09-30-2004, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by trolls' bane

Spider Solitair, and Mine sweeper (which I just found out the secret for

)

I hate Minesweeper becuase I don't know the secret. What is it?

I like FreeCell, the game of champions. *wanders off to play FreeCell*

trolls' bane · 09-30-2004, 06:42 PM

The numbers form a box around each mine. Start with a custom game with like 200 squares and 20 mines. Example of pattern (M=Mine)
1 2 2
3 M 1
2 2 2
And an example of a pattern that might stump you at first:
1 2 2
2 M 1 3 5
1 2 3 M 4
M 2 2 M 2
3 1 1 2 1

.

BeardofPants · 10-01-2004, 12:49 AM

The numbers indicate how many mines are in proximity of that box. If there's a "1", that means that there's only one mine adjacent to it.

sun-star · 10-01-2004, 09:12 AM

I love Minesweeper but I can't play it as well now that I don't have a proper mouse

Spider Solitaire is really addictive though...

Janny · 11-07-2004, 11:10 AM

Hey Mercution! I couldn't find the card game thread (I think it died), so I wanted to ask you something about Spades...

How do you (or anyone who plays) score bags? It seems the standard is to count to ten (or fewer) and then penalise. It just seems odd to me that people add overtricks as 1pt to their score since the score needed to win is always a multiple of ten. I mean, if you're counting the points surely you should be able to benefit from it. Does anyone allow say 20 bags before penalising so that you could increase your score by overtricks? (Sorry that this is really unclear... I'll explain further if needbe)

Janny · 12-18-2004, 03:46 PM

On the topic of basic computer games: is there a command in qbasic which makes an input take place immediately... ie. so you don't have to wait and press enter?

09-15-2004, 11:06 AM	#1
Shelob's Hubby Enting Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell Posts: 73	Basic Computer Games I was just wondering what basic game people play the most when their on the computer. When I say basic game I mean like Solitaire, Freecell, Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire, Tetris, Hearts, etc. So send in what basic game you are addicted to, why you like it, and your high score (if the game has one). I personally like Minesweeper because it is all about probability and quickly thinking about the numbers. In case you can't tell, I like math. For all you miners out there my high scores are Beginner: 6 seconds Intermediate: 50 seconds and Expert: 172 seconds. Beat that!!! __________________ Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but without ears, we look like weasels. "The next time I lent an ax to a surgeon, I would pick my century." A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The Last Alliance of Orcs and Spiders

09-15-2004, 03:33 PM	#2
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	I don't have time for these...when I'm online or on the computer I'm on the moot or...emailing people (guess who). I do play Internet Spades (no surprise there). __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

09-15-2004, 05:10 PM	#5
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I used to play these games a lot a few years ago but like Mercutio, I just don't have time anymore. I beat Minesweeper's beginner's level in 6 seconds too. I was so proud of myself. I've starting to play minesweeper on MSN and maybe I'll get addicted to the game once more... __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻ Last edited by Jonathan : 09-15-2004 at 05:11 PM.

09-15-2004, 10:19 PM	#6
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Moving to the Entertainment forum. __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

09-18-2004, 07:57 PM	#8
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Spider Solitair, and Mine sweeper (which I just found out the secret for ) __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

09-30-2004, 06:42 PM	#11
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	The numbers form a box around each mine. Start with a custom game with like 200 squares and 20 mines. Example of pattern (M=Mine) 1 2 2 3 M 1 2 2 2 And an example of a pattern that might stump you at first: 1 2 2 2 M 1 3 5 1 2 3 M 4 M 2 2 M 2 3 1 1 2 1 . __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

10-01-2004, 12:49 AM	#12
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	The numbers indicate how many mines are in proximity of that box. If there's a "1", that means that there's only one mine adjacent to it. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-01-2004, 09:12 AM	#13
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I love Minesweeper but I can't play it as well now that I don't have a proper mouse Spider Solitaire is really addictive though... __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

11-07-2004, 11:10 AM	#14
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Hey Mercution! I couldn't find the card game thread (I think it died), so I wanted to ask you something about Spades... How do you (or anyone who plays) score bags? It seems the standard is to count to ten (or fewer) and then penalise. It just seems odd to me that people add overtricks as 1pt to their score since the score needed to win is always a multiple of ten. I mean, if you're counting the points surely you should be able to benefit from it. Does anyone allow say 20 bags before penalising so that you could increase your score by overtricks? (Sorry that this is really unclear... I'll explain further if needbe) __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

12-18-2004, 03:46 PM	#15
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	On the topic of basic computer games: is there a command in qbasic which makes an input take place immediately... ie. so you don't have to wait and press enter? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

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