Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.

Is this a record (not a record)?

Who says I waste my time!

https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb

Tone

No idea what that is, but back in the days of the ZX Spectrum I wrote a game
called Spider Diner where you had to drop from your web on a thread over a
bug, but the time the bug was in range below you would vary randomly, andif
you failed too many times you ran out of energy and snuffed it.
Little things and little minds again...
Brian

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"Tone" <tone@email.com> wrote in message
news:u9qf8p$1e3uk$1@dont-email.me...
> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>
> Is this a record (not a record)?
>
> Who says I waste my time!
>
> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>
> Tone

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:

> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>
> Is this a record (not a record)?
>
> Who says I waste my time!
>
> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>
> Tone

This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
don't mind a round of minesweeper.

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On 26/07/2023 10:09, Slider wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:
>
>> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>>
>> Is this a record (not a record)?
>>
>> Who says I waste my time!
>>
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>>
>> Tone
>
> This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
> don't mind a round of minesweeper.
>
>
>

I wondered about the Guinness Book of Records as I can't find any ref to
an average above 38.5%, but they aren't interested in online gaming
results, so I guess they wouldn't be interested in this either.

Tone

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:41:57 +0100, Tone wrote:

> On 26/07/2023 10:09, Slider wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:
>>
>>> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>>>
>>> Is this a record (not a record)?
>>>
>>> Who says I waste my time!
>>>
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>>>
>>> Tone
>>
>> This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
>> don't mind a round of minesweeper.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I wondered about the Guinness Book of Records as I can't find any ref to
> an average above 38.5%, but they aren't interested in online gaming
> results, so I guess they wouldn't be interested in this either.
>
> Tone

Guinness Book of Records do have a gaming book of records that they do
from year to year. Who knows?

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:09:49 -0000 (UTC), Slider
<eliasjlikouras@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:
>
>> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>> Is this a record (not a record)?
>> Who says I waste my time!
>> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>> Tone
>
>This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
>don't mind a round of minesweeper.
>

MineSweeper ! .. I had to look it up to remind myself
what the game looked like - even though I spent many hours
setting new "scores" < low times > lo those many years ago.
Lemmings was a big fav also - it was an actual PC game though
... not a freebee or online version.
Leisure Suit Larry ..
John T.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:04:28 -0400
hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:09:49 -0000 (UTC), Slider
> <eliasjlikouras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:
> >
> >> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
> >> Is this a record (not a record)?
> >> Who says I waste my time!
> >> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
> >> Tone
> >
> >This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
> >don't mind a round of minesweeper.
> >
>
I've semi-recently written my own DOS version in <256 bytes using 8086 asm.
the 'random' distribution of mines is a bit pants though.

>
> MineSweeper ! .. I had to look it up to remind myself
> what the game looked like - even though I spent many hours
> setting new "scores" < low times > lo those many years ago.

<10s on Beginner, if you're lucky.

> Lemmings was a big fav also - it was an actual PC game though
> .. not a freebee or online version.

> Leisure Suit Larry ..

"Soft Porn"

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On 26/07/2023 10:34 pm, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:09:49 -0000 (UTC), Slider
> <eliasjlikouras@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:42:33 +0100, Tone wrote:
>>
>>> Two suit Spider. 1,000 games, 98% wins.
>>> Is this a record (not a record)?
>>> Who says I waste my time!
>>> https://flic.kr/p/2oRQifb
>>> Tone
>>
>> This is pretty impressive! I personally never got into solitaire, but I
>> don't mind a round of minesweeper.
>>
>
>
> MineSweeper ! .. I had to look it up to remind myself
> what the game looked like - even though I spent many hours
> setting new "scores" < low times > lo those many years ago.
> Lemmings was a big fav also - it was an actual PC game though
> .. not a freebee or online version.
> Leisure Suit Larry ..
> John T.

Setting low scores is quite fun and it passes the time. I'll have to
check out lemmings, it does look like a lot of fun though!

On 27/07/2023 in message <u9sfqk$1ku2n$1@slider.eternal-september.org>
slider wrote:

>Setting low scores is quite fun and it passes the time. I'll have to check
>out lemmings, it does look like a lot of fun though!

If you're talking about the original DOS based Lemmings and Oh No More
Lemmings I have the codes for both of them plus "page codes" for the latter.

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Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2:26:03 AM UTC-5, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 27/07/2023 in message <u9sfqk$1ku2n$1...@slider.eternal-september.org>
> slider wrote:
>
> >Setting low scores is quite fun and it passes the time. I'll have to check
> >out lemmings, it does look like a lot of fun though!
> If you're talking about the original DOS based Lemmings and Oh No More
> Lemmings I have the codes for both of them plus "page codes" for the latter.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
> Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

back in 1975 when I was at the University of Texas at Austin this was before even the PC days this was the mainframe days along the control data corporation 66/6400 series. They had a game on there called potshot what she would do you were taking pot shots at your opponent, and you would specify the muzzle velocity in the angle of inclination with her Rison in the wind velocity, and all that and you would try to hit your opponent with a Potshot, well it turned out if the wind velocity was high enough it would blow your bullet actually behind you away from your opponent, which was interesting however the administration kind of frowned on this game because it brought your mind a certain unfortunate incident with a person called Charles Whitman, not Walt Whitman and so they had it banned, and then everyone lived happily ever after