Minesweeper again...

If some of you read comments for my blog, you will know that I suck in minesweeper. My percentage of winning is only 2%.

You may also wonder why I still into Minesweeper when I'm suck in it.

Playing Minesweeper is my way of indulging into my mind. I get ideas; I get inspiration from playing it.

Those few times I won, I even know the reason I won.

Once when I told myself that I will go to work if I win the game, and surprisingly I won. I can't believe myself winning. So I said to myself, I will surely go to work if I win THIS game. . I won again… I guess it is really time for me to start working, and kill my lazy worm.

Last time I won was become of my 'kiasu' spirit. 'Kiasu' mean 'afraid to lose', in one of Chinese dialect. 'Kiasu' is a adjective word, usually used to describe Singaporean. It is also known as competitive spirit, to be used on me.

That night, my friend told me that she won almost every game of Minesweeper. While I was thinking, if she can win, sure I can win too. Yes, I did win twice that night.

It is the attitude that makes us win. The only barrier to any challenge is our attitude. Attitude is likened to a vessel/container. If a vessel has a crack or broken, it won't be able to contain anything. If we really want to win, we have to defeat our negative self.

P.S: I got the inspiration of writing this post from playing Minesweeper.. Boss is away..shhhh :)

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Character can be seen by the way you play Minesweeper

Minesweeper is a game that require much concentration and fast response to number. It also needs you to make decisions fast.

If you have a small island of boxes which are not clicked, and not much clue of which box will contained mine. However there are left big chunk of boxes which are not clicked, and it is easy to guess where the mines are located. Which will you choose to solve first?

Small island or big easy island??

Few weeks ago, I will choose the small island. My reason is why not take the risk to solve the small island, if it can not be solved, it will only be wasting my time to step on mines when I am almost finish the game. I chose to take the risk.

However, the current me will choose to solve the big chunk, easy to solves boxes.

I found it is much easy to solve all the boxes, by solving the chunk first.

Whenever I saw the small dangerous island of mines, automatically my mind will give out warning that I may steps on mines. Emotionally, I will be eager to solve the small dangerous island, a.k.a. committing suicide.

It is easier to solve it by clicking the big chunk first, because one clue may leads to many clues. My mind will be more relax and more rational to make decision. It is always not good to make decision when the mind is not calm. It will only lead to disaster, such as killed by mines, may lose a leg or head.

I had learn to be more patient and not rushing in making decision. Sometimes there is the need to stop, analyze and think in our life. It may seems right at the moment something happened. After some calming session and thorough thinking, everything may become clear, and found it it was a consequence of a wrong decision.

Asking for advice is not bad. But only you know the best about your situation. In your consideration, your friends' advice can only be used as a guide. We have to make the decision for ourselves, meaning don't fully trust your friends' advices.

There is an exceptional though. If someone thinking to commit suicide, I mean real suicide such as by jumping from high without any bungee rope attached or drink poison, if your friend told you not to kill yourself, you should really trust your friend on this. Just don't trust the wrong friend!!!!!

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Lesson about Minesweeper

I am so bad about teaching. Always ran out of patience when I teach someone. Although I always laugh when I teach, my students always feel intimidated by my loud voice. My juniors always think I am a lioness when I taught them ... ^ ^'''

This is my 1st attempt in writing manual on my blog. Hopefully no one will be scare of minesweeper after reading my manual...

My 1st trial in playing minesweeper was when I was around age 16. My brother taught me how to play it just by saying, "all you need to do is click click." Of course, I catch no ball. What an instruction of play is that! Click click???

My 2nd attempt was when I am at uni at age 17. My kind housemate taught me all about minesweeper. She didn't just said click click and I did catch all click click.

Introduction to Minesweeper! 

< Beginner                      

                                          Intermediate>

Expert

Minesweeper is very cute because it has a smiley face. It is smiling when no bomb explode and sad when you found the bomb. Just click the smiley when you feel like starting a new game. Don't be shy in clicking it.

At left top, there is a box count of how many bombs in a minesweeper.

At top right, there is a box count of how much time used to complete a game. Please try to finish it as as soon as possible.

There are 3 levels - beginner, intermediate and expert. Some people like to challenge themselves to finish beginner level in just couple second. Oooooffff! Their finger must be like bullet and with very good luck in clicking.

Goal - finish a.s.a.p without tripping over a bomb, or else you will lost a limb or 2 limbs or your life.

Understanding

Please do not get intimidated by so many small boxes. It is not a confined place with limited oxygen, so don't get agitated and breathe normally.

what does that '1' doing there? Does it mean anything? Let's zoom in before any further explanation.

This '1' means there is only 1 bomb at its surrounding box. 

This will happen when  you click click and found a bomb.

No limb lost, just a sad smiley face. No one will want a sad smiley face. so try to make it happy as long as we can.

Now we know how to estimate the location of bombs just by looking at numbers. What do we do to acknowledge the existence of a bomb?

It is easy. Just right click the box. Flagged it!

That is all about minesweeper. My 2 cents is that this game is about luck, fact finger clicking and how friend is your eyes with your mind.

My luck is only 0.1 %. I have to play 200 times to win once!

Happy sweeping!

Oh yeah! I just remember that mines = bombs. That's why it is called minesweeper!

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