Minesweeper

yey! finished another minesweeper expert game today @ 174 (after lunch @work) ^ ^
second successful finish for my borrowed windows computer
played without flags. played without hints. played without the left+right click “cheat”
thats how i play minesweeper since i learned to play without marking mines with flags

poodle (computer name) fastest mine sweeper times:

• beginner: 12 seconds
• intermediate: 59 seconds
• expert: 166 seconds

the scores are not that high though
just reasonable scores for the first successful games
and which i did not attempt to beat for record (except for the expert though)

i also cant remember the best times i scored for each category since i started playing minesweeper. but i think i had an 8 for the beginner and about 30 for intermediate.
erm… im not sure ToT

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so as usual here is the japanese word for minesweeper:
掃海艇 【そうかいてい】soukaitei

but i think this word is applicable only for sea mines (naval mines to be more accurate)

掃 means sweep
海 means sea (read as umi)
艇 means boat (also read as tei)
掃海 means sweeping the sea for mines

and for land mine, the japanese word is:

地雷 【じらい】 jirai
地 means ground or earth (read as chi)
雷 means thunder (read as kaminari)

there is also another word 地雷火 (jiraika) but it returned only about 250,000 results in google compared to 8million for 地雷

and after some googling i found this site with this image T_T sad sad world

and do you remember the scene in Finding Nemo where there were a lot of naval mines? AND did you know there is a Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Disneyland, California? the spooky graveyard of sunken ships surrounded by naval mines is also featured in the ride