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Hmm... I'm tempted to say you should be looking at the number of squares uncovered, M. If you got a good first click, you wouldn't want to waste it on unnecess
by crznp 9y ago
Hmm... I'm tempted to say you should be looking at the number of squares uncovered, M.
If you got a good first click, you wouldn't want to waste it on unnecessary risk. If you got a bad first click, you'd want to keep guessing until you either died or uncovered another large section.
- usrusr 9y agoIIRC my N settled at around N=2.7, which means that a lucky first click would abort the queued random clicks between clicks two and three. After that, the most important decisions for a fast match were deciding which mines not to tag because the final auto-tag would get them anyway and which empty fields not to uncover because they would be uncovered faster with an "uncover all surrounding" click on a saturated number. Clicking was definitely the bottleneck for me, so the main goal of the eye/pattern match was to keep the click-queue filled at all times. The eyes would always focus somewhere close but not too close to where the clicking happened, so that the pattern match could work on a stable image. Or sometimes just rest for a few clicks, when the hand could not keep up. Fond memories of stupid things.