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Minesweeper Wiki

**Welcome to the Minesweeper Wiki!**

**Players**

**Tournaments**

**Strategy**

**Rankings**

**Games**

A platform to learn about the game Minesweeper, be it about gameplay, players, history, and more!

We're a collaborative community website about Minesweeper that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Wikis like this one depend on readers getting involved and adding content. Click the "ADD NEW PAGE" or "EDIT" button at the top of any page to get started!

## Create your own page - Guidelines

Whoever knows the most about a specific person is themselves! It is best to contribute to creating your own player wiki page to establish a baseline of information about join dates, records, etc.

### **Here are the guidelines to create your own page :**

Please write in a correct English, and use the writing style of other pages.

Use the templates we created to improve the page you're creating.

To create your own page, you must have completed **at least one** of these achievements on minesweeper.online or an official minesweeper clone :

* Sub55 Expert
* Sub15 Intermediate
* Sub1 Beginner
* Sup140% Expert
* Sup160% Intermediate
* Sup200% Beginner
* Top 1 in your country ranking in at least one category

**OR**

You must have completed **at least one** of these goals in a global tournament :

* Top 16 at a Minesweeper World Championship
* Top 16 at a Chord Cup
* Top 32 at a Gold Sheep Cup
* Top 10 at a minesweeper.online championship

**OR**

You must be an eminent member of the Minesweeper community :

* Content Creator on YouTube, Twitch or other global social network
* Tournaments organizer
* Minesweeper clone coder or tool creator
* Top player of a minesweeper variant
* Other important thing you brought to the Minesweeper Community

Background taken from this game played by South Ghost
Queen Youba

Queen Youba is a female mountain lion that is entirely purple but has some crystals on her body. Queen Youba is known as the "GOAT but opposite" for Tale. Tale has been pranking Queen Youba ever since she became the Queen. Cattle believed Queen Youba kicked the King Dragon right into the sea, drowning him.

## Enemies

Tale (Trying to kill her)

Fura (Just an annoyance but got happy once Fura died.)
Gamestyles

There are several ways to play minesweeper, similarly to Rubik's cubes. For example, you could aim to solve it as quickly as possible, but also to solve with as few moves as possible.

## Gameplay Options

### Speed

One of the simplest and most popular ways to play the game. The goal is simple, beat a minesweeper board going as fast as you can, with no regard to having to win, as you can just restart after all.

### Efficiency

A very different playing style to all the others. The task is simple but the execution may be hard: Beat a board with the lowest amount of clicks possible. The common stat used to display efficiency is IOE, where higher is better.

IOE 50%: A large amount of your clicks were not useful. You may expect to see this value if you spam click during speed games

IOE 80%: Perhaps you didn't necessarily waste clicks, but the choices for where to click were not great. Getting an IOE like this in a speed game is very respectable.

IOE 100%: You were actively looking for clicks with being efficient in mind. You should not expect to get this IOE in speed games, but some players manage to.

### Winrate (Mastery)

Another playing style centered around calculation, mastery. The idea with this playstyle is to: start a game, and win it. While in this playing style, you prioritize finding guarenteed-to-be safe cells and mines, and only resorting to guessing if absolutely necessary. The main difficulty of this is figuring out what cell is the best option to guess. Not only does the safety (Chance for cell to be safe) matter, but also the Progress that it gives, which indicates how much "reward" you'll get if the guess ends up being safe.

### Completion (Arena)

This is arguably the most natural way to play the game, and is sometimes confused with speed or mastery, but instead it should be viewed as a mix of the two. The goal with "completion" is to spend the lowest amount of time to win a game. It is comparable to mastery as you should have as high of a winning chance as possible going into each game, but also spend a low amount of time deciding what to do, hence it being similar to the speed playing style aswell.

## Other gameplay options

### 100-Efficiency

A combination of completion and efficiency. Consider it to be the same as completion, while having to get >100% in IOE/Efficiency. This playstyle is required for MSonline's efficiency arena.

### Hardcore Completion

A combination of completion and winrate. Consider it to be the same as completion, except that losing a game includes some kind of penalty. This playstyle is required in MSonline's hardcore (ng) arena.

NF (No Flags allowed) is perhaps not a playing style on it's own, but it can be combined together with any of the above categories.
Depth

**Depth** is a measure of how complicated a certain piece of logic is. There are multiple types of Depth, such as RDepth (Region Depth) and CDepth (Contradiction Depth)

### RDepth (Region Depth)

RDepth can be calculated by counting the number of regions used to deduce the safe cell

### CDepth (Contradiction Depth)

CDepth can be calculated in a number of ways, the viability of each differs on a pattern-by-pattern basis.

1. There is a decent chance that CDepth = 0.5\*[AmountOfInvolvedNumbers] - 1
2. Counting the number of write cells in the pattern *(recommended)*
3. Counting the amount of numbers whose equation is used additively when attempting a solution by summing equations

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Spooky Spasm

The Spooky Spasm is an ocean where Diveran fishes at. It is home to multiple regular tropical fish, and Horned Seals. It appears to be a massive and deep ocean with dark water, and the trees are dead. There are a lot of rocks in it, and no bushes. Some survivors have seen actual dead creatures wandering around in it. The grass in it is gray and there are black feathers on the trees.

## Ratings

3.2 ⭐

Rea Beoas - "Too creepy. And I HATE IT!"

Heather Neas - "Spooky. I love it! If you also love spookiness, go here now!"

James Seath - "Spooky is alright, but this is too kawaii for spooky."
Arena

**Arena** is a game mode on minesweeper online where a player has to win a certain number of games that have certain conditions within a certain amount of time.

## Arena Points

There are 10 different arena types, all ranging from L1 to L8. Completing all ten of these arena types at L8 will give you the maximum amount of arena points, 80. If a player completes all 10 arena types on L8E (Elite) difficulty, they will have "80E" arena points, automatically ranking them above players with "80" arena points, regardless of tiebreaks.

## L8E Arena ranked by difficulty

1. **Speed NG L8E**
2. **No Flags L8E**
3. **Hardcore L8E**
4. **Hardcore NG L8E**
5. **Speed L8E**
6. **Nightmare L8E**
7. **Efficiency L8E**
8. **Random Difficulty L8E**
9. **High Difficulty L8E**
10. **Endurance L8E**
Team Cats

Team Cats is an online association for players who play minesweeper and like cats. It is established on February 4th, 2023 by Mario Pro Gamer.

Anyone can join Team Cats, with no barriers to entry. It allows anyone, from pros to beginners. There is also a Discord server, which is mainly based on other non-Minesweeper games, such as Minecraft.

Link to server: https://discord.gg/tdrkBswEmK
Versions

(Blueprint)

Official (Windows Exclusive) Releases

**PC Versions**

* Arbiter
* Meowsweeper
* Minesweeper Online
* Minesweeper X
* Viennasweeper

**Android Versions**

* Mamonosweeper\*
* Minesweeper Go
* Minesweeper Collector

**IOS Versions**

* Minesweeper Q
* Minesweeper X

**MacOS Versions**

* SmartMines
* Dangerous Mines
* Minesweeper- Classic Game

\*not officially available
Gold Sheep Cup

**Gold Sheep Cup** is a series of tournaments created and organized by Guo Jin-Yang. It is held during April and October of every year.

It is played on Minesweeper Arbiter and features cash prize in CNY and minesweeper.online minecoins rewards.

## Format

Players are given 7 days to play and get their best results on Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert then submit their results as a zip file to QQ = 170524603 or qxxqlls@163.com.

In order to participate, players must include GXXXX tag at the end of their video logo eg. Guo Jin Yang G52667

3BV limit of the 3 boards for this event are 10/30/100 respectively.

## Score and Rewards calculation

The main ranking use a score calculate from the sum time of best 20 beginner games + best 12 intermediate games + best 5 expert games. The lower the score, the better the placement in the ranking.

Minesweeper.online players who want minecoins rewards need to join QQ group 831740881

The cash prize rewards (shares) is a total of 550 CNY which will be distributed to top50 players excluding Guo Jin-Yang and Wai Guo-ren using the formula below

* shares = ppp37^(10/37)+(50- rank)\*0.05
* ppp37 = (bpp20\*ipp12\*epp5) ^(1/3)
* bpp20 = bb20\*bstnb20/bt20/47.299
* ipp12 = ib12\*istnb12/it12/153.73
* epp5 = eb5\*estnb5/et5
* stnb = constant/QG
* QG = time^1.7 / 3bv

The variables used above is an acronym that combines the boards, stats, and amount of games e.g

* bb20 = **b**eginner **b**vs **20** = 20 of your best beginner 3bv/s
* it12 = **i**ntermediate **t**ime **12** = 12 of your best intermediate time
* estnb5 = **e**xpert **s**tnb **5** = 5 of your best expert STNB

## List of Gold Sheep Cups

Gold Sheep Cup 1 - played on August 6, 1931, won by GWJ

Gold Sheep Cup 2 - played on August 6, 1973, won by GWJ

Gold Sheep Cup 3 - played on August 6, 1991, won by GWJ

Gold Sheep Cup 4 - played on August 6, 2008, won by GWJ

Gold Sheep Cup 5 - played on October 14, 2019 to October 20, 2019, won by GWJ

Gold Sheep Cup 6 - played on April 13, 2020 to April 19, 2020, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 7 - played on October 12, 2020 to October 18, 2020, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 8 - played on April 12, 2021 to April 18, 2021, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 9 - played on October 11, 2021 to October 17, 2021, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 10 - played on April 10, 2022 to April 16, 2022, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 11 - played on October 10, 2022 to October 16, 2022, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 12 - played on April 10, 2023 to April 16, 2023, won by JZE

Gold Sheep Cup 13 - played on October 9, 2023 to October 15, 2023, won by JZE

## Best Players

Note : only players who made top 5 in a gold sheep cup are present in the table

## References

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Sub 40 Players

"Sub 40 Players" are players who have achieved an under 40 second time on an expert board. On saolei.wang, it is standard to add +1.00 second to the time in each game, so only games that have a real world time under 39 seconds will qualify for a Sub 40 second game.

~ For Now, refer to the World Ranking for a list of sub 40 players.
Winter Speed Championship 2022

The **Winter Speed Championship 2022** is the S73 January Championship organized by minesweeper.online.

It is the second ever minesweeper.online Season Championship, and the first ever minesweeper.online Speed Championship.

## Rules

1. Players have 3 days to achieve a good run
2. Trophy Conversion: Minesweeper.online uses an internal system that allows for intermediate and expert games to be compared. In this tournament, only ~ and ~ games will qualify

## Ranking (up to top 10)

1. ↑ full ranking at minsweeper.online/championship/s73
5&5

**5&5** is a scoring systems in which the sum of the best 5 intermediate games and the best 5 expert games played within the tournaments' given time period are added together.

**5&5** requires a minimum amount of games to be won, so a penalty system, like S+40, is used to penalize players not meeting the minimum amount of required wins.
Elmar Technique

**Elmar Technique (ET)** is the method of using one mouse button to make two clicks.

 Elmar Zimmermann was trying to break his NF records, so he configured his left mouse button to make it click when you pressed or released it. On 29 August 2005 he announced his new expert record of 49.62, followed a few minutes later by a new intermediate record of 11.28. His previous records had respectively been 57 and 14 seconds.

A day later, Roman Gammel posted in the Guestbook to say he did not like the abnormally high click/s in these videos. Elmar explained how he had used Logitech Mouseware, and he pointed out that he had mentioned the technique publicly. James Custer claimed that anything helping you click faster was cheating, but Elmar replied that a distinct physical movement was still needed for each click. Damien Moore noted that double-clicking was accepted for Solitaire rankings. Sergey Pastukhov then asked if records would be accepted using keyboard commands.

The following day, Elmar made a legitimate 50.96 on expert. He tried to convince the community that thinking, not clicking, should be the limiting speed factor in minesweeper. Although some sweepers agreed with Elmar, a majority of posts rejected his idea.

ET directly led to creation of the IMC, as Roman Gammel posted on 4th September to suggest election of a group of players to resolve this problem.

## References

1. ↑ https://minesweepergame.com/website/authoritative-minesweeper/wiki/Elmar\_Technique
Hopsing

**Hopsing** is a term for when you set both a time and a 3bv/s record on the same game.

On 10 October 2005, Robert Bendtiz, also known as Hopsing set a new expert record of 53.06 on a 172 3bv board at 3.30 3bv/s. This was both his time and his 3bv/s record. The term for a double record in one game was named after his nickname, Hopsing.

Robert Bendtiz made his first Hopsing a year earlier, on 15 April 2004. where he set a record of 31.06 on a 54 3bv board at 1.74 3bv/s.

Since then, many Hopsing have taken place, especially in cases where a player exclusively plays on one board for a period of time and then decides to play a different board size. One such case is with the player eff, who set a record of 11.023 on a 54 3bv intermediate board at 4.90 3bv/s, being both a time and a 3bv/s record.
Ce/s

**Ce/s** (Effective clicks per Second) indicates the amount of clicks per second that a player executes whether they be left clicks, right clicks, or chords without counting wasted clicks.

**Ce/s** is preferable over Cl/s when comparing various playstyles and player's abilities. A player who is good in both FL and NF playstyles will have higher Ce/s playing NF. Ce/s should be use rather than Cl/s when comparing games from minesweeper.online to games from offline clones or mobile apps. This is because minesweeper.online does not register every wasted clicks made on the board.

In Levels of NF by Guo Jin-Yang, average Ce/s and STNB is use alongside time PB to measure player's NF abilities.
Saratoga

Saratoga is a Vietnamese minesweeper player on minesweeper.online.

He has made a total of 2 top 10 appearances in minesweeper.online championships, all of which are efficiency.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He is currently attempting to beat all 25% density square boards up until 62x62/961. His current progress is 2-52, with 60 and 62 done with hints.
Trophy Conversion

Trophy Conversion is a formula used on minesweeper.online, that gives any game a set score, where the highest scoring game becomes a source of trophies for the player. This system is also used in some MSO Speed Championships and MSO Efficiency Championships.

## Notes

* Custom boards and even No-Guessing boards can give a trophy score.
* Near the end of 2022, custom boards were heavily nerfed, effectively becoming unviable sources of trophies.
RT+1

**RT+1**, also known as **Time+1**, is a deprecated statistic for measuring speed, being equal to the Time + 1 second added to it. RT+1 has since largely been replaced by Real Time (RT+0).

This measure originated from older minesweeper clones where the timer used to start at `1.00` instead of `0.00`, and was used in older tournaments such as WC1 Budapest 2005.

**RT+1** is still in use at saolei.wang, where every game has one second added to its' real time length. However, other stats such as 3bv/s do not use **RT+1**, instead opting to use Real Time.
Fura

Just like Tale, Fura is a lemur, but instead she is a female. She has the exact same body as Tale and can even talk English. However, in the Crimson Forest, a Sprinkle Cat tore her head off thinking it was a Horned Seal.

## Enemies

Sprinkle Cat (Obvious)

Light Kits (Annoying for her, and also love to suck her blood.)

Lunata (Creepy dinosaurs.)
Gadget

**Gadget**, also called **Gadgetlab** is a British minesweeper player that mostly plays speed on minesweeper.online.

He is considered one of the fastest players on the website.

He has participated in 4 Chord Cups, finishing two times at 3rd place.

He has made a total of 4 top10 appearances in minesweeper.online championships, in speed and efficiency, making him a versatile player.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Achievements

 26/05/2023
 05/03/2023
 09/10/2023

## Trivia

* He is considered the best (currently active) British minesweeper player, alongside Dardhong/Xilef and Llama/TF2Llama (touchscreen).
Cl/s

**Cl/s** (Clicks per Second) indicates the amount of clicks per second that a player executes, whether they be left clicks, right clicks, chords or even wasted clicks. Unlike many other statistics, Cl/s has low board dependence and effectively exclusively depends on the player.

A Cl/s of 4 is considered to be high, while some of the highest Cl/s achieved in normal games (as Cl/s can be inflated by intentionally drawing out a game by unnecessarily clicking as fast as possible) are 6-7 Cl/s.

**Cl/s** can be used to calculate 3bv/s by multiplying Cl/s by IOE.
MOV

**MOV** is a speed statistic that indicates moving speed in a unit of pixels per second. It has a formula of (path/time). MOV has little board dependency and mostly displays the player's movement speed. Do note that MOV is not really an indication of overall speed, as players who practice minimizing their mouse travel distance will score lower.
Every Pibby Glitch In Adult Swim's 2022 April Fools

## "Every Pibby Glitch In Adult Swim's 2022 April Fools

### Seasons

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3

### Genre

Animation
Drama
Adult content
Fantasy

### Producer

Sophia Monico

**Every Pibby Glitch In Adult Swim's 2022 April Fools**, alternatively titled

Learning With Pibby, **Learning With Pibby:**

**Apocalypse**, **Come and Learn With**

**Pibby(!)** and **Pibby**, is a possibly upcoming

series, created by Dodge Greenley. The Series

Would Premiere On Adult Swim upon being

greenlit.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Nikki Castillo as Pibby
* Alex Newell as Melira
* Marcus Toji as Alloy Boy
* Jack Stanton as BunBun
* April Stewart as Sharon Marsh

* Dee Bradley Baker as Angry Guard #1
External Resources

## Communities

Discord server

minesweeper.online - Playing, Chatting, Events, Alternative game styles, Rankings

saolei.wang - Forum, Rankings

minesweepergame.com - Forum, Rankings

r/minesweeper - Forum

Chord Cup discord server - Chord Cup

## Resources

Minesweeper Solver - JSMinesweeper

Guides list (minesweeper.online) - Guides

Minesweeper board museum
Minesweeper News

**Minesweeper News** is a social media account that shares information about the Minesweeper community.

It was created in August 2023, and is run by Gbasire.

## About

The Twitter/X was created in August 2023, and its goal is to share news, recent PBs, strats, tournament info, player info, etc, in order to generate excitement and interactions within the community, to make it grow further.

In September 2023, it covered the Chord Cup 5, advertising the tournament and sharing live coverage of the matches.

In December 2023, a YouTube channel was created, in order to publish a video called Minesweeper Rewind 2023, covering all Minesweeper events that occurred in 2023.

The account has 100 followers on Twitter/X, and 30 followers on YouTube as of January 2024.

## Gallery

1. ↑ Minesweeper News Twitter Link
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 MinesweeperNews YouTube Channel
3. ↑ Minesweeper Rewind 2023
Janitor2

**Janitor2** is a German minesweeper player who mostly plays efficiency on minesweeper.online.

He is considered one of the best efficiency players on the website.

He has won two Minesweeper.online efficiency championships and finished seventh in another one.

He has made a total of 3 appearances in the top 10 of Minesweeper.online championships, all of them being efficiency championships.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Notable Tournament Results

 25/08/2023
 28/04/2023
Anonymous2484838

**Anonymous2484838** is a Dutch minesweeper player that primarily plays expert on minesweeper.online.

He has made a total of 4 top 10 appearances in minesweeper online championships, all of them being speed championships.

## Trivia

* He is considered the best Dutch minesweeper player alongside Bensie.

## Notable Tournament Results

 27/09/2022
 27/05/2022
 26/01/2022
SAO

**SAO**, also known as degree of coquettishness(?) is speed statistics where higher indicates better performance. It has a formula of MOV\*(Ce/s). Usually, the faster the moving speed of a player, the easier it is to click which will lead to a decrease in Ce/s and vice versa. By combining these two speed statistics, SAO can show the solving ability of a player.
A new player

**A new player** is a player who joined Minesweeper Online on December 21, 2021. As the name implies, he is a new player with no world records or championship wins. Despite people claiming A new player is not a new player, he claims he is a new player because his efficiency skills are comparable to that of a new player.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency
Gbasire

**Gbasire** is a Swiss minesweeper player that mostly plays speed on minesweeper.online.

He is the creator of Minesweeper News, a social media account that posts about minesweeper info, news, players, tournaments, etc. He runs the Twitter account and the YouTube channel.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He started on Google Minesweeper Mobile in 2020, where he still has a World Record and 3 top-3 times
* He is considered the best currently active speed Swiss player, and one of the best speed Swiss players.
The Matron

### Alias

The Matron of ArcanaThe Matron of the ArcaneThe Matron of EnchantmentThe Matron of Divination

## Family

### Spouse

Aelfdene (deceased)

**The Matron** is the current goddess of magic. She is the only human that has achieved ascension to godhood all on her own, using the Rites of Ascension that she created. The rites completely destroyed the former god of magic and scrubbed his name from history.

[See **Ascension of the Matron** for more details.]
Corr

**Corr** or **Correctness**, is a ratio that indicates what percentage of clicks affected the board, being equal to (Non-wasted clicks) / (Total clicks). This means that games without wasted clicks have a **Corr** of 100%.

For speed games, **Corr** usually ranges from 60% to 90%.

It is possible to calculate IOE by multiplying **Correctness** by Throughput.
RQP

**RQP**, also known as Rapport Qualité Prix, is a speed statistic equal to ( Time + 1 ) / (3bv/s), where lower is better. It is considered to be the best stat for determining speed compared to other statistics that have similar complexity. RQP has some board dependency but largely relies on solving speed.
Tynamo

**Tynamo** is a Hong Kong player who mainly plays beginner time and 3bv/s on minesweeper.online.

He currently has the #2 Beginner time and 3bv/s in Hong Kong country ranking on minesweeper.online.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He is ranked #10 in Easy NG time on minesweeper.online
* He has been in the top 5 of the minesweeper.online monthly beginner time rankings for the last 6 months.
Tian-Yi Pu (PTY)

**Tian-Yi Pu**, also called **PTY** or **putianyi889**, is a Chinese minesweeper player.

He is considered one of the best Chinese minesweeper players, and was considered one of the best minesweeper.online players before quitting in June 2022.

He mainly plays NoFlag.

He regularly plays the Gold Sheep Cup, and finished 5 times in the top 5.

He made two top-two finishes at minesweeper.online championships when he was still playing, all of them on speed championships.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Official PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He is very active on western internet platforms.
* He has a youtube channel called putianyi888, where he posts minesweeper videos.

## Notable Tournament Results

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@putianyi8889
Endurance

**Endurance** is a term for the completion of 100 games of any board size, usually beginner, intermediate or expert, usually in a single seating.

The world records for beginner, intermediate and expert endurances are - / 37:06 / 2:45:30 respectively. See World Ranking (Endurance).

On minesweeper.online, an expert endurance of 5:00:00 will yield the maximum amount of trophies from the endurance category.

## List of players with sub-5:00:00 expert endurances

* 1155002818
* 77.
* afgg
* ahwitz
* AlphaVorteX
* Al-Esku
* Amaranth
* Anonymous0726
* Anonymous2484838
* Anonymous3632248
* Anonymous5978127
* Baldi99
* DarkStar
* Doogle
* EWQMinesweeper
* Galaxi
* Gini5525
* gramana
* He's a baby
* hqtf
* iddaga
* Jeice Quintero
* JonJonH
* JSwole
* kashi-mic
* kasenn
* Kolmogorov
* Koro
* K U P
* Lain\_Kolliner
* Lucas C
* Mannerless guy
* Mario Pro Gamer
* Michael Gottlieb
* Md-101
* mikan
* MoCol
* MOsweeper
* mtanzer
* nagao
* Natyo
* Obelus
* p1hannnnnnnnn
* pauv
* potatoes
* PTTACGfans
* RaLu-ra
* RmwCby
* Scar
* sduifhuidsf
* Sileair
* Sirusc
* sky high
* Sosoru
* stasyapelman
* StenWTF
* SweeperZero
* Teshima M
* Thomas Kolar
* Thrainos
* Tian-Yi Pu
* Whopper
* Yeong-Ju Ko
* yumeoi
* Ze-En Ju
* Zlix
* Zolingom
* Zyn
* 喵姬:3
* まここ
* あああああ~
Chocolate Minesweeper

**Chocolate Minesweeper** is a logic-focused minesweeper game, consisting of difficult puzzles that often contain chain patterns and combination minecount. Guessing an unknown cell in Chocolate Minesweeper is guaranteed to lead to a loss, as the game will ensure that the tile contains a mine.

**Chocolate Minesweeper** can be played here.
Google Minesweeper

Google Minesweeper Logo

**Google Minesweeper** is a Minesweeper variant released by Google in 2018 for their Google Doodle games series.

It is the 40th most popular game on Speedrun.com with 2000 registered runners.

It is playable on Web and on Mobile, and is pre-installed on Android devices.

## Specificities

All Google Minesweeper boards are No Guessing, removing all 50/50 and guessing possibilities.

Chording is done with Left+Right Click, or Middle Click.

A different sound is done when clicking a number, that goes sharper, the higher the number.

Web boards and Mobile boards have a different size and mine density.

## Any% Rankings

As no official rankings exist, the rankings are done on Speedrun.com, and a video recording is needed to have your run on the leaderboard.

Times are full integers and do not use commas, except for sub 1s easy runs, that are retimed manually my the Speedrun.com moderators.

Only top10 of the rankings are shown here, full ranking available here.
QG

**QG**, also known as Quality Grade, is a speed statistic that has a formula of`Q
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{\displaystyle QG = Time^{1.7} /3bv}`. The lower the better. QG is used in the calculation of STNB, a similar statistic that converts QG to be comparable between different board sizes.

The exponent value came from regression on large amount of data. It is concluded by Guo Jin-Yang that time^1.7 is almost proportional to 3bv
Arena Tickets

**Arena Tickets** are an obtainable item on minesweeper.online, that range from L1-8 and have 10 different types. To obtain an arena ticket of a certain level, one must find and open a cell with a number that corresponds to the ticket's level. There are a few rules to obtaining tickets:

1. Arena Tickets can be found in any game (except for replays), including No-Guessing mode.
2. A player does not have to win the game to obtain the ticket. *(Note: if there is a game error, the ticket is not? obtained.)*
3. You can only obtain certain tickets depending on your rank. For example, one needs `700` trophies to be able to obtain L8 arena tickets.
4. Arena Tickets can not be found next to openings. *(Note: this information may allow use of ticket logic.)*
5. Boards above `33%` mine density will not drop arena tickets, and boards between `26%` and `33%` mine density will suffer from a lowered arena ticket probability.
6. When the probability of obtaining a ticket exceeds `100%`, this may result in multiple tickets. For example: a `250%` ticket chance = `200%` + `50%` meaning that there are two guaranteed tickets and a `50%` chance for a third ticket.

Once a number has been revealed, there is a certain probability of acquiring an arena ticket from the cell:

There are 10 different types of arena tickets, and when obtaining a ticket of a certain level, the probabilities of getting a certain type are fixed and as follows:

 Speed NG
 No flags
 Efficiency
 High difficulty
 Random difficulty
 Hardcore NG
 Endurance

1. ↑ from Ranks - Minesweeper Online
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 from Arena - Minesweeper Online
Pattern Reduction

## Complement

To create the complement of a pattern: For each number, count the amount of cells around it and subtract the number from it, this will be the new number in that position.

The complement of a pattern has the same logical process as the original, but the usage of mines and safe cells is flipped.

## Number Reduction

If a pattern consist of only 2s, replacing each 2 with a 1 could be considered.

## Restriction Cell Removal

Most patterns will have numbers that have one (or more) of three functions:

1. Writing Number: this number takes a known mine within the contradiction and proves safe cells
2. Reading Number: this number takes known safe cells to force a mine in one square or region
3. Restriction Number: this number exists solely to point that a mine can not go there.

Restriction Numbers can be covered up as long as adjacent numbers are all raised by one. This will help reduce pattern size especially at the outer edges of the pattern.
JSMinesweeper

**JSMinesweeper** is a multi-functional minesweeper solver, player and board builder developed by MSCoach. JSMinesweeper can be run on a browser here. A limited version of JSMinesweeper is also integrated into Minesweeper Online, functioning as a probability engine.

## Solver

JSMinesweeper uses a couple of techniques to solve boards:

* **Probability Engine** - Calculates cell safety for all tiles on the board, and detects dead tiles.
* **(pseudo) 50/50 Detection** - Can detect most forced guesses, this is useful as forced guesses are optimal guesses by default.
* **Guessing Logic** - In addition to calculating cell safety, the chance that the cell provides useful information is calculated.
* **Brute Force** - When the total number of possible solutions is low (<750), the solver will simulate every possible guessing path through every possible solution, guaranteeing a perfect solution at the cost of high computational cost.

When no guaranteed logic is found, the solver will combine these techniques to provide several 'candidate guesses', and will mark the best candidate.

## Notes

* JSMinesweeper will never return false negatives (cells that are actually safe but deemed unknown by the solver), but can return false positives in extreme cases (cells that are actually unknown but deemed safe by the solver). From 21st August 2023, false positives have been effectively patched.
* There is a java version of JSMinesweeper that achieves increased accuracy due to java-exclusive optimization. This solver has the highest winrate of any solver, with a 41.7% winrate on expert.

1. ↑ GitHub - DavidNHill/JSMinesweeper: Minesweeper player, solver and analyser in javascript
Damien Moore

## Damien Moore (thefinerminer)

Damien Moore with his trophy after finishing third place at the 2009 Minesweeper World Championship in Stirling

## Links

### MSG Account

https://minesweepergame.com/profile.php?pid=1580

**Damien Moore**, also known as **thefinerminer** is a Canadian minesweeper player.

He is widely considered as being one of the best minesweeper players of the 2000s, being consistently ranked in the top 5 at that time, and breaking the sub11 barrier on Intermediate.

He is the creator and administrator of MinesweeperGame, The biggest minesweeper info website.

He is the first Minesweeper World Champion, winning the Budapest World Championship 2005.
He also finished 2nd place and 3rd place at several other World Championships, making him one of the most titled minesweeper players.

## Official PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He is considered the best Canadian minesweeper player of all time.
Moon

## **Moon**Song by Omar Apollo

"**Moon**" is an unreleased track by Omar Apollo. The song was intended to be on Omar's debut album Ivory, but didn't make the cut for unknown reasons.

Omar performed the song 2 times, once at a secret show in LA, and another on July 27, 2021. The performance can be found on YouTube[1]

## Lyrics (unconfirmed)

**[Refrain]**

Is it cool if I come by?

I really wanna stay the night

You know that you’re my boy

I don’t wanna be emotionless

Your heart’s devotionless

Fill it with the both of us

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Summertime

Let me slide in

But with you too

Uninvited

Put the music on

Dim the light in

Let me show you what a perfect night is

**[Chorus]**

Do you wanna be my moon

Do you wanna take my room?

Do you wanna be my moon

Cuz I really be yours too

**[Refrain]**

Is it cool if I come by?

I really wanna stay the night

You know that you’re my boy

I don’t wanna be emotionless

Your heart’s devotionless

Fill it with the both of us

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Summertime

Let me slide in

But with you too

Uninvited

Put the music on

Dim the light in

Let me show you what a perfect night is

**[Chorus]**

Do you wanna be my moon

Do you wanna take my room?

Do you wanna be my moon

Cuz I really be yours too

(Unintelligible Rap)

**[Chorus]**

Do you wanna be my moon

Do you wanna be my moon

Do you wanna be my moon

Cuz I really be yours too

1. ↑ YouTube - "Moon" performance.

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John Minesweeper (Template)

## John

**John**, also known as **John** is a British minesweeper player that plays speed on minesweeper.online.

He is considered one of the fastest players on the website.

He has made a total of 3 top10 appearances in minesweeper.online championships

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Achievements

.online
 07/05/2027
.online
 08/05/2027
.online
 09/05/2027
.online
The last player to achieve sub38

## Trivia

* He is well known for not liking beginner
* He is considered one of the best british players on minesweeper.online
Minesweeper GO

Minesweeper GO's logo on mobile stores

**Minesweeper Go** is a minesweeper app available in the playstore and apppstore, and is considered to be the primary mobile platform for international minesweeper.

**Minesweeper Go** supports rankings, replays, versus mode, a paid no-guessing mode, tournaments and a [campaign mode].
Ze-En JU (JZE)

Ze-En\_JU's Saolei.wang profile picture

**Ze-En Ju**, also known as **JZE**, is a Chinese Minesweeper player.

He is a minesweeper child prodigy, breaking the Expert official World Record at 12 years old, ending the 11-year reign of Kamil Murański.

He is widely considered as being the best Minesweeper player of all time, being the current World Record holder for both Expert and Intermediate by a huge margin, being 4.54 seconds ahead of Kamil in Expert and 1.23 seconds ahead of Kamil in Intermediate.

He is the first and only player on earth to have broken the sub30 mark. Not only that, but he also is the only player to hit sub29, sub28, sub27 on Expert, as well as sub7 and sub6 on Intermediate.

He has participated in 9 Gold Sheep Cups and has won 8 of them, making him undoubtedly the best active player on earth.

## Official PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

\*Ze-En Ju has a 25.10 second game that was denied for not following naming guidelines

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency
3bv

**3bv** (Bechtel's Board Benchmark Value) indicates the minimum amount of clicks required to finish a board without using flags.

Many rankings (specifically speed-based rankings) only accept games where the 3bv value is below a certain amount. For beginner, intermediate and expert respectively, this is usually **2/30/100**

Lowest/highest 3bv records are generally unconfirmed whether they are actually the record

1. ↑ Original Source
2. ↑ Sourced from Minesweeper.online
3bv/s

**3bv/s** (3bv / second or Cl/s \* Efficiency) indicates the amount of 3bv that a player solves per second and is meant as a speed-measuring statistic.

For an expert game, a 3bv/s of 2 is considered to be high, while a 3bv/s of 3 is considered to be very high.

For an intermediate game, a 3bv/s of 3 is considered to be high, while a 3bv/s of 4 is considered to be very high

The world record 3bv/s for intermediate and expert are 7.89/6.11 respectively.

1. ↑ 9.63/76 by Ze-En JU @7.89 3bv/s
2. ↑ 30.94/189 by Ze-En JU @6.11 3bv/s
Felix Gardner

**Felix Gardner** was a twenty-seven year old man who was executed during the tyrannical reign of George Davidson on false claims. He lost his first two lives as a construction worker, but never knew about those deaths due to amnesia. In his free time, he tutored history and considered himself a "freelance historian".

## Storyline

Felix first appeared during the era of absolutist monarchy in the EveSMP. He was accused of conspiring with revolutionaries and failed at talking himself out of it due to severe social anxiety, which led to his execution on September 26th, 2021.

Since Daze Whitlock and Eve Everyrest witnessed the execution, the two took to the forest and brought him back to life right after the event. Felix was disoriented, confused, and traumatized by the sight of the Afterlife. He was never a revolutionary, but decided to join the rebels nevertheless, losing all loyalty to the Crown after his unjust death.

After his short stay at Sapphire's taiga mansion, he joined the Sheepcote, as Daze promised him to find his children and reunite the family. Soon enough, his two daughters Lucy and Evelyn joined him in the Sheepcote community, where they remained to shelter themselves from tyranny and war.

He lost his final life once again in the Sheepcote explosion, and his daughters were orphaned.

## Quotes

"I've always believed that knowledge is of utmost importance, because even after they strip you of everything, even take your head, they can never take what was in it."

"Some of us are destined to write hymns of praise about the ones who make the change."

"You don’t know anything, do you? Isolating yourself in a fucking mansion hours from the kingdom while people die. So much for a revolutionary.”
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a Repetitive Strain Injury affecting the wrist. The carpal bones are your wrist bones. Tendons for your hand pass through a narrow tunnel between these bones, but the Median Nerve also uses this tunnel. If the tendons become irritated and swell, the nerve is pinched, leading to loss of dexterity.

## Symptoms

* Pain in the wrist or forearm.
* Numbness of thumb, index or middle fingers.
* Difficulty holding small objects.

## Causes

* Repetitive movement.
* Strain on the wrist.
* Rheumatoid arthritis.
* Anything that limits blood flow to the hand.

## Case Examples

Several players from the World Rankings have been forced to retire with CTS. Dan Cerveny (former rank #2) switched to NF style and eventually retired after damaging his fingers. Marc Schouten (former rank #4) also retired with severe CTS. Damien Moore (former rank #2) has mild CTS but can still play. Several other players have been affected.

## Treatments

There is no simple cure. In extreme cases surgery is used to relieve pressure on the nerve. If swelling is the problem, a splint is worn or a local steroid injection given. Several treatments exist for people with diabetes and arthritis.

You can minimise damage by stretching the wrist. Keep your fingers straight and press your hand backwards until you feel the stretch. Hold for several seconds and repeat. You should stretch several times a day.

## Prevention

The best cure is prevention. Avoid anything that impedes blood flow or tightens your wrist. (Do not rest your wrist on a cold desk, do not tense your shoulder). Use a mouse that is large enough for your hand and has easily pressed buttons. Take breaks when you play and increase blood flow by exercising during your breaks.

Never rest your weight on the wrist. The weight of your arm should hang from your shoulder and your wrist should be lower than your elbow. If you find this uncomfortable, rest your elbow on the arm of your chair or buy a soft support for your wrist.

Finally, everything in Minesweeper eventually comes down to luck!

1. ↑ https://minesweepergame.com/website/authoritative-minesweeper/wiki/Carpal\_Tunnel\_Syndrome
OBV

**OBV**, also known as Optimized Board Value, is an index showing the difficulty level of the board with 3BV modified.

Since the value of 3BV is not directly proportional to the difficulty of the board, collection of replays was used to set the average play time as the dependent variable, the total number of squares of numbers, 3BV, and the three values ​​of opening as the explanatory variables. The multiple regression equation was created. In order to bring this closer to the conventional 3BV value, the OBV formula is calculated by multiplying the average value by 15 for beginner, 62.5 for intermediate, and 170 for expert. The average value of each board is calculated using the formula below.

Beginner: 0.07 \* <total number of squares> + 0.43 \* <3BV> + 2.27 \* <openings>

Intermediate: 0.20 \* <total number of squares> + 0.32 \* <3BV> + 1.38 \* <openings>

Expert: 0.38 \* <total number of squares> + 0.23 \* <3BV> + 0.99 \* <openings>
Path

**Path** indicates the distance the cursor moves in the unit of pixels. Generally, the lower means more efficient pathing which is better, but mouse polling rate can have a big effect on the path. Player with higher polling rate will see an increase of path measured in a game.

On Arbiter, each tile has a width and height of 16 pixels.
Mario Pro Gamer

**Mario Pro Gamer** is a Hong Kong Minesweeper Player.

He has the second-highest number of minesweeper.online Trophies just behind Sky High, with a total of 1201 Trophies, the second ever player to reach 1200+.

Over the years, Mario has created a lot of records in Hong Kong minesweeper history in time, 3bv/s and efficiency on all board types.

He finished in the top 10 of minesweeper.online championships a total of 10 times, including 2 top 1 finishes: the Mobile Championship 2022 and the NF championship 2023, making him one of the best global minesweeper.online players ever.

He is known for being invited for an interview on the Hong Kongese YouTube channel MilMilk to talk about minesweeper, where he introduced the basic patterns of minesweeper to let Hong Kong people know more about the game.

The video earned almost 1.5 million views within just 10 days after being released.

He quit in October 2023 due to personal reasons, but returned in Nov 2023

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Trivia

* He is considered the best Hong Kong player of all time
* He has done a lot of sub-1s in beginner, a hard thing to achieve.
* He briefly became #1 in trophies around a week after a minesweeper.online update that made Efficiency a trophy category in late September 2023, but Sky High recovered the #1 position soon after.
* He created his account in September 2021, when one day his friend found a minesweeper.online ad while he was coding, and he started playing with him. Then, he started to grind a lot on minesweeper.online and eventually became #1 player in Hong Kong.
* He is the creator of an online group called Team Cats, which was founded on February 3rd, 2023.
Ticket Logic

**Ticket Logic** is a type of meta logic unique to minesweeper.online. If you happen to find a ticket cell (which has a gold background) in the game, you will know for a fact that all spaces adjacent to the ticket are not openings, because tickets cannot be found on openings.

While there is no documented case of ticket logic providing safe cells, ticket logic has more potential when playing for efficiency.

1. ↑ https://minesweeper.online/help/arena
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is a gradual buildup to damage to muscles, tendons or nerves caused from repetitive motions and constant use. RSIs usually affect wrists, hands, forearms, elbows, neck, and shoulders. If left untreated, it can lead to loss of dexterity.

## Symptoms

* Pain, ranging from mild to severe
* Tenderness
* Swelling
* Stiffness
* Tingling or numbness
* Throbbing
* Weakness
* Sensitivity to cold or heat

## Causes

Activities that can increase the risk for RSI are:

* stressing the same muscles through repetition
* maintaining the same posture for long periods of time
* maintaining an abnormal posture for an extended period of time
* being in poor physical condition or not exercising enough

## Treatment

The initial treatment for RSI symptoms is conservative. This may include:

* RICE, which stands for rest, ice, compression, and elevation
* nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), both oral and topical
* steroid injections
* exercises, which may be prescribed as part of a physical therapy treatment plan
* stress reduction and relaxation training
* wrapping the area or securing it with a splint to protect and rest the muscles and tendons

## Prevention

* Don’t “play through it” if you feel pain during the activity, such as gaming.
* Give your body time to rest and recover.
* Stretch and warm up before an activity.
* Cool down and stretch after an activity.
Thomas Kolar (Ralokt)

Thomas Kolar with his trophy after winning the 2008 Minesweeper World Championship in Vienna

## Links

### MSO Account

https://minesweeper.online/player/2966478

### MSG Account

https://minesweepergame.com/profile.php?pid=683

**Thomas Kolar**, also known as **Ralokt** is an Austrian Minesweeper player who mostly plays speed.

He is widely considered as being one of the best Minesweeper players of all time and the longest-serving currently active player, having not left the top 25 in the official rankings since he first reached it in 2006, and reaching the top 5 at his peak in 2013.

He is also one of the fastest minesweeper.online players, having not left the top 5 since he reached it in 2020.

He is the owner of Scoreganizer, a minesweeper tournaments website, where several Minesweeper World Championships have been organized.

He won the Vienna World Championship 2008, the Budapest World Championship 2008 and the Munich World Championship 2012.
He also finished 2nd place at 2 World Championships and 3rd place at 1 World Championship, essentially making him one of the most titled minesweeper players.

He won one minesweeper.online Efficiency Championship and finished second place at a minesweeper.online Speed Championship.

He has made a total of 7 appearances in the top 10 of minesweeper.online Championships, on speed, efficiency, arena and high difficulty championships, making him a very versatile player.

## Minesweeper.online PBs

 3bv/s
 Efficiency

## Achievements

 20/04/2021
 26/09/2023

## Trivia

* He is considered the best Austrian minesweeper player ever.