I saw the thumbnail and was like "Finally something I'm better at than Hikaru" then I saw the speed he solved these and was like "Hell, I guess Hikaru is better than me at everything"
I think he means the other penguin, Andrew Tang or penguingm1 is a young gm, who is very good at bullet, he even competes with Magnus(he is worse, but he wins quite a lot of games) edit: forgot to mention that he has mad skills with mouse aiming, there is video ruclips.net/video/EwP2nFbYm5c/видео.html
I remember when I did play this I used to start off every game by clicking at 5 or 6 random places. If I don't lose by then, the game usually becomes simpler.
"I'm not doing one more you guys. Because the thing is, that actually, when I do too many of them, it just, it start's to like... oh whatever okay one more one more."
As someone who was just in a minesweeper hole and then to get out of it decided to see if there's any youtube videos of minesweeper, this brought me joy to see someone like hikaru go to the same depths as i do when playing.
I would love to see you play "Crypt of the Necrodancer". It's a chesslike rythm based, roguelike dungeon exploration game, which is hard as balls. There is even a chess boss to fight.
yeah, thats what high level players do. if you're stuck and need to guess, the best thing to do is to guess on the ones that give you the highest chance of not losing
I can't believe this question has been finally solved by an anonymous person in the comment section of the RUclips channel of a Twitch streamer who's also a GM in chess.
1:30 "I'm going to have to guess" nope. 2:20 "too many guesses" nope. 5:00 "I think I had to guess already" nope. 12:00 "Again I'm going to have to guess" nope. 13:40 "Interesting, 50%" nope. 15:20 "I just have to guess" nope. 18:08 "50-50" nope. 19:30 "too many guesses" nope.
Your game is really great! You're fast and you're thinking around corners a lot. You're just not used to recognizing the standard 1-2 patterns when they're hidden too deep. If you really want to confront the whole "do I have to guess", play the Minesweeper version from Simon Tatham's puzzle games (that collection is awesome!), that generates only logically solvable fields. And everytime you trip up, look at it long and hard to figure out how you _could_ have known it.
There's no logical way to solve that back to back 1-3 corner at 12:00. The mine has an equal chance of being in either remaining square. Pure 50/50. If you disagree I'd appreciate knowing what logic you'd use to solve it.
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 You're right, but I wasn't referring to that. Right at 12:00 he was guessing his way into the southeast corner, and he didn't have to.
I'd love to see how Hikaru does in Zuma. His hand-screen coordination, quick analysis, and speed are amazing. It's a puzzle game with a neat twist, give it a try, Hikaru!
8:15 is solved no need to guess if you start thinking it through starting from the upper right Edit: looking at it again I don't see any pattern and I guess I was wrong :(
I feel like it would be better to guess in the middle of the section instead of a 50/50 on the edge because the entire section is probably less then half bombs so it’s a safer guess in the middle.
You didn't have to guess at 19:27 The 5 on the left guaranteed a spot for the 3 directly below it, meaning there was a free space next to the 3 below that, and the 2 below that.
If you click with both mouse buttons on a number square that has been satisfied by adjacent flagged squares then all non-flagged adjacent squares to that number square will be revealed. Saves a lot of time.
This is so good. Just when I had an idea about Hikaru playing minesweeper, there is already a video out. I loved that moment where he didn't realize he was not stuck. Only realized it at the last moment, although chat might have helped him. 😂
Man Hikaru’s ability to quickly scan and analyze the simple patterns is out of this world, but its a bit cringe how every 30s hes just like “welp gotta guess” when there is actually is a logical solve to the board. Ex. 8:11 you can chain logic from top right all the way down to the bottom and get a solution to unravel. However it would have gotten stuck at the 1&4 at top for a true 50/50 finish
2 years later I know, but I totally agree, he is able to see very easy patterns extremely quickly, but does not notice any complicated patterns. Also he is making bad guesses a lot of the time on forced guesses, and the lack of double clicking to clear non-mines is weird to me
at 8:16 what I normally do in positions like that where there is no clear answer to the problem I will usually just put the flags where the bombs are most likely to be and then adjust until I find the solution. works 100% of the time.
@1:32 u dnt actually have to guess because the blocks just below it can eb calculated and then using that u know that the one lower of the 2 is not going to be a bomb
I used to play a lot of minesweeper, i think my record was 70 or so on expert. Not placing flags makes it so much faster cos you spend less time clicking
@@kliffi96 I found it helped me learn pattern recognition a lot easier when I didn't have the flags to use. I got used to 2-3-2, 3-3-1 and 4-3-x patterns much faster.
Never have I ever tought about watching people play minesweeper nor chess. And here I am now watching GM of chess playing minesweeper for 30 minutes...
Minesweeper is one of my favorite games. Interesting to see how he uses the same memorization techniques from chess to apply to Minesweeper. Was fun to see him go after the 30 second record.
" Im not doing one more you guys. Cause the thing is that actually when i do too many of them ... it just ... its starts like ... uh whatever i will do one more one more..." Classic Hikaru. Just one more forever
If Hikaru is this good at Minesweeper, he should try Demoncrawl, as it is essentially a minesweeper passion project with an amazing soundtrack. If you're reading this you should also check it out, it teaches you essentially the basics of minesweeper, the patterns to look for, and gives you 100% solvable boards before it actually gets challenging
I would say that at 2:22 where Hikaru is forced to guess and clicks on a bomb, that the "3" located 8 tiles from the left, 4 tiles from the top needs two more mines and they can't both be next to the "1" on the left, so at least one of them needs to be near the "2" to the left and down, thus assigning that "2" all its mines and you could continue the game by clicking around that "2" ....but I won't, because I don't want to be _that_ guy.
Tbh, I expected to blow up on Twitch a long time ago, but I guess I guessed wrong. A nostalgic game that's simple to understand, and should gain a ton of views. If there's a "TwitchPlaysMinesweeper" channel and get more streamers playing daily, I'm sure it will blow up just like chess did.
@@A73X4ND3R a lot of those were chance actually. Happens a lot in mine sweeper especially in large boards. Im to lazy to list out timestamps for you so Im just gonna say at 7:09 cause thats where I am in the video lol. Theres probaboy better examples.
@@A73X4ND3R I too seen that, I don't often come across guessing spot as he was coming, but guessing spot is real especially when it comes at the last moment, either you will complete the game successfully or all progress will go 💥💥💥, I was referring to my guessing spot
Guess this debunk that idea where a chess player performance is dictated mainly by memorizing pattern. But here we are, a game which rely mainly on logic and calculation than memory.
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Ah, the classic “I’ll do one more”
PROCEEDS TO PLAY 200 GAMES
"We go againe"
he is becoming more and more like xQc the more time goes past, clearly it's the Twitch syndrome
he does it on purpose, I imagine xqc gave him some streaming tips to have the viewers on strings.
Agane
27:16
No matter what game he's playing it still feels like he's playing chess.
Valorant
he is good with a mouse but not with a keyboard
Bruh so true lmao
in my opinion, when he playing chess his king moving like parkour guy.
5Head
One man's descent into his gambling addiction in minesweeper
Hikaru is found living in a run down motel in Reno just trying to make buck at minesweeper.
I saw the thumbnail and was like "Finally something I'm better at than Hikaru" then I saw the speed he solved these and was like "Hell, I guess Hikaru is better than me at everything"
Bruno Alejandro Andrades what is your record?
Said the same thing
but in the end he didnt solve it, accuracy over speed
"There that 1 asain always better than u" look like my grandpa was right
Lucky for me I'm a top MLB the Show player, but he's probably better than me at that too
"Alright, one more..."
"One one one, one one, one one one, one. One one. One. One one one. Shoot!"
"ONE MORE!"
How do GMs practise bullet?
Hikaru: minesweeper
Penguin: aimbooster
Magnus: Catching Bullet
George Sander Critikal probably
Just say charlie you fog head
I think he means the other penguin, Andrew Tang or penguingm1 is a young gm, who is very good at bullet, he even competes with Magnus(he is worse, but he wins quite a lot of games)
edit: forgot to mention that he has mad skills with mouse aiming, there is video ruclips.net/video/EwP2nFbYm5c/видео.html
George Sander penguingm1
His minesweeper skills are decent, he should try playing chess.
I agree, he should try his hand at chess. Wonder how he will perform once he tries chess out
@@user-ny2gt7zc7t you want for someone to tell you that they are joking and then you make fun of it, well its not funny
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@@user-ny2gt7zc7t ...
@@user-ny2gt7zc7t but he's ALREADY A CHESS GM!!!!
I remember when I did play this I used to start off every game by clicking at 5 or 6 random places. If I don't lose by then, the game usually becomes simpler.
Ya I was about to comment this, might as well get some free clicks in.
How else can you do it
I think that was the same strategy they used on D-Day
There is a really few chance that one will be really useful
Good idea, I should do that while sweeping real mines
"I'm not doing one more you guys. Because the thing is, that actually, when I do too many of them, it just, it start's to like... oh whatever okay one more one more."
That killed me
Pogchamps 2 gonna be minesweeper
Xqc would be like bing bang (clicks on bomb) boom
@@starboiklem8381 Bing bang bing bang pow boom
Hikaru: 1,1,1,1,1,2,4,1,1,1,1,5,1,1,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1 hmmm 🤔 me: interesting 🧐
it was 6 actually, not 5
I like your magic words, funny man.
@@clausable6328 wait what
Year 2024.
Kramnik: "interesting..."
"just one more, just one more".........."ok ok the last one the last one"
“Minesweeper BREAKS Hikaru”
Me: “Oh maybe a game I’m actually better at”
Hikaru then proceeds to play faster and better than anyone I’ve ever seen.
😒
One one, one one one one,, one one, there we go, one one one one one one
As someone who was just in a minesweeper hole and then to get out of it decided to see if there's any youtube videos of minesweeper, this brought me joy to see someone like hikaru go to the same depths as i do when playing.
I would love to see you play "Crypt of the Necrodancer". It's a chesslike rythm based, roguelike dungeon exploration game, which is hard as balls. There is even a chess boss to fight.
How 'bout he plays Demoncrawl as well, that's an actual minesweeper roguelite and it's super fun
He even calculates the failure percentage of the guessing ones. What a mad lad.
yeah, thats what high level players do. if you're stuck and need to guess, the best thing to do is to guess on the ones that give you the highest chance of not losing
"one more and then chess" these were the last words hikaru said before descending into a mine sweeper addiction frenzy.
"Just one more"
The eternal chant of an addicted mind. Just lucky you're not on a blackjack table.
Hikaru: I will do one more.
Also Hikaru: Plays 10 more games
GM in minesweeper when?
P = NP when P = 0 or N = 1 QED
Why did you post that here lol
I can't believe this question has been finally solved by an anonymous person in the comment section of the RUclips channel of a Twitch streamer who's also a GM in chess.
i wonder how they will cite a youtube comment
NightsEdge 0.1 when
I'm small brain what does this mean
1:30 "I'm going to have to guess"
nope.
2:20 "too many guesses"
nope.
5:00 "I think I had to guess already"
nope.
12:00 "Again I'm going to have to guess"
nope.
13:40 "Interesting, 50%"
nope.
15:20 "I just have to guess"
nope.
18:08 "50-50"
nope.
19:30 "too many guesses"
nope.
Your game is really great! You're fast and you're thinking around corners a lot. You're just not used to recognizing the standard 1-2 patterns when they're hidden too deep.
If you really want to confront the whole "do I have to guess", play the Minesweeper version from Simon Tatham's puzzle games (that collection is awesome!), that generates only logically solvable fields. And everytime you trip up, look at it long and hard to figure out how you _could_ have known it.
There's no logical way to solve that back to back 1-3 corner at 12:00. The mine has an equal chance of being in either remaining square. Pure 50/50. If you disagree I'd appreciate knowing what logic you'd use to solve it.
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 You're right, but I wasn't referring to that. Right at 12:00 he was guessing his way into the southeast corner, and he didn't have to.
@@Superphilipp my bad, right at 12 yeah he does make that guess.
I'd love to see how Hikaru does in Zuma. His hand-screen coordination, quick analysis, and speed are amazing. It's a puzzle game with a neat twist, give it a try, Hikaru!
12:37 you can also win by knowing where all the mines are, so instead of trying to guess by left click you can guess by right click
Edit: spelling
How does that work
@Jakub C *also
@Jakub C *guess
1 million subs Challenge You are ingenious
Thumbnail = legend
8:15 is solved no need to guess if you start thinking it through starting from the upper right
Edit: looking at it again I don't see any pattern and I guess I was wrong :(
No, there are multiple options to place the remaining 7 mines.
I think Norruu is right
Norru is right. There is no need to guess.
When he says “ok one more and that’s it” but you’re only halfway through the video
The last words "one more then chess"🤣🤣
this guy is good at minesweeper, imagine him playing chess
At Chess: takes takes takes
At minesweeper: ttttttwo ttttttwoo one one tttttwo
Hikaru: im so slow
Me: WOW im so slow
Alternate title GMHikaru yells at math.
This guy is almost a grandmaster at Minesweeper as well as at Chess
He said "last one" for 30 FUCKING MINUTES
I feel like it would be better to guess in the middle of the section instead of a 50/50 on the edge because the entire section is probably less then half bombs so it’s a safer guess in the middle.
You didn't have to guess at 19:27 The 5 on the left guaranteed a spot for the 3 directly below it, meaning there was a free space next to the 3 below that, and the 2 below that.
I see at least six safe squares to click as well
27:03 - favorite moment
"One one one two two it's touching one one one two two three, miss click"
If you click with both mouse buttons on a number square that has been satisfied by adjacent flagged squares then all non-flagged adjacent squares to that number square will be revealed. Saves a lot of time.
100% chat: HIKARU saying "ONE" more
NOONE in chat: He's really good at MINESWEEPER
0:14 and 0:20
Dude why did I find this so funny
This is so good. Just when I had an idea about Hikaru playing minesweeper, there is already a video out.
I loved that moment where he didn't realize he was not stuck. Only realized it at the last moment, although chat might have helped him. 😂
Man Hikaru’s ability to quickly scan and analyze the simple patterns is out of this world, but its a bit cringe how every 30s hes just like “welp gotta guess” when there is actually is a logical solve to the board. Ex. 8:11 you can chain logic from top right all the way down to the bottom and get a solution to unravel. However it would have gotten stuck at the 1&4 at top for a true 50/50 finish
2 years later I know, but I totally agree, he is able to see very easy patterns extremely quickly, but does not notice any complicated patterns. Also he is making bad guesses a lot of the time on forced guesses, and the lack of double clicking to clear non-mines is weird to me
Hey Hikaru, please put chat on the screen too! I love seeing how the chat reacts to what you do.
I’m having a tough time believing that we get to watch one of the best chess grandmasters of all time playing minesweeper. The internet is amazing.
2:31: "I'll do one more".
Me: Checks length of video.
Chess: perfect information
Minesweeper: imperfect information
There are many times when there was actually a play when he guessed.
my alarm : *Goes off for the 14th time*
me : ...one more one more
Feels weird. For once I can actually kinda keep up with him since it's a game I'm actually good at lol
I thought I was good with my 177 second time.
breadbaskets you are good
at 8:16 what I normally do in positions like that where there is no clear answer to the problem I will usually just put the flags where the bombs are most likely to be and then adjust until I find the solution. works 100% of the time.
I dont even know how minesweeper works
@1:32 u dnt actually have to guess because the blocks just below it can eb calculated and then using that u know that the one lower of the 2 is not going to be a bomb
And this is how he ends chess career and become Minesweeper player.
The #1 addict line: "oh ok 1 more"
I was like nice a game I'm decent at... Instant regret
I used to play a lot of minesweeper, i think my record was 70 or so on expert. Not placing flags makes it so much faster cos you spend less time clicking
Tried that. The only thing it made faster was me clicking on a mine.
@@kliffi96 I found it helped me learn pattern recognition a lot easier when I didn't have the flags to use. I got used to 2-3-2, 3-3-1 and 4-3-x patterns much faster.
I tried to make that jump after I got down to 90 but never was able to fully commit to it.
consider using the middle click, Hikaru, it speeds things up a lot and overall convenient
Never have I ever tought about watching people play minesweeper nor chess. And here I am now watching GM of chess playing minesweeper for 30 minutes...
Hikaru:111111111111
Me:ahhh the matrix
I never realized Hikaru has such nice mouse control
This just in: Hikaru Nakamura has not heard of No Guessing Mode
Hikaru playing one last game of minesweeper for 25 minutes.
minesweeper hikaru: oneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneoneone
chess hikaru: takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes
I thought you just clicked randomly until you got lucky and won
me too =)))))))
Yea, I thought that too, but I learned in at some point. It's pretty fun when you know how to play it.
yeah i just randomly click and keep trying until i get one i cleared a bunch on then i go into solve mode
after every game "i'll do 1 more"
we all lie to ourselves this at one point haha
Girl's locker room: I think Jason likes you
Boys locker room:
Minesweeper is one of my favorite games. Interesting to see how he uses the same memorization techniques from chess to apply to Minesweeper. Was fun to see him go after the 30 second record.
" Im not doing one more you guys. Cause the thing is that actually when i do too many of them ... it just ... its starts like ... uh whatever i will do one more one more..." Classic Hikaru. Just one more forever
I swear this man is good at every game he plays
The guy at the top is just twitch chat
pog every millisecond
If Hikaru is this good at Minesweeper, he should try Demoncrawl, as it is essentially a minesweeper passion project with an amazing soundtrack. If you're reading this you should also check it out, it teaches you essentially the basics of minesweeper, the patterns to look for, and gives you 100% solvable boards before it actually gets challenging
My 8th grade maths teacher taught me how to beat minesweeper with algorithms but now I forgot
Nakamura, for the 85th time:
Okay, one more
This made me feel alot better about my self
Wtf. I have never seen minesweeper played that fast. Wtf
You obviously haven’t seen that fast. The world record is 26 seconds. I am a slow-ass and I have a 78
Why is it that 90% of the time when I am forced to guess in Minesweeper, I always choose wrong?
1:33 You didnt need to guess there anyway, the 2 there already had 2 flags
I would say that at 2:22 where Hikaru is forced to guess and clicks on a bomb, that the "3" located 8 tiles from the left, 4 tiles from the top needs two more mines and they can't both be next to the "1" on the left, so at least one of them needs to be near the "2" to the left and down, thus assigning that "2" all its mines and you could continue the game by clicking around that "2" ....but I won't, because I don't want to be _that_ guy.
sure there was some more logic but even if you don't keep developing from your starting corner, just open another corner
I dont get how he can process information so fast
Not that fast lol. The world record is 26 seconds. Lol
I can’t even process the numbers as fast as he’s clicking
i thought he was only this fast with chess....
Aahhhhhhhh the Classic "One More"
"Last one" he says, lol!
Chess man descends into crippling Minesweeper addiction
It seems Hikaru has been studying opening theories, end games and traps for minesweeper
Minesweeper finna be the next game to blow up on twitch
Tbh, I expected to blow up on Twitch a long time ago, but I guess I guessed wrong. A nostalgic game that's simple to understand, and should gain a ton of views. If there's a "TwitchPlaysMinesweeper" channel and get more streamers playing daily, I'm sure it will blow up just like chess did.
Man I hate guessing spot in minesweeper, I would rather deal with G-Spot
The spot he said he'd have to guess didn't actually need a guess. He just had to work his way up from the 3 at the bottom of the column
@@A73X4ND3R a lot of those were chance actually. Happens a lot in mine sweeper especially in large boards. Im to lazy to list out timestamps for you so Im just gonna say at 7:09 cause thats where I am in the video lol. Theres probaboy better examples.
When you play a lot of minesweeper you start to notice patterns and guessing becomes a bit safer. Also you should usually put mines near big numbers.
@@A73X4ND3R I too seen that, I don't often come across guessing spot as he was coming, but guessing spot is real especially when it comes at the last moment, either you will complete the game successfully or all progress will go 💥💥💥, I was referring to my guessing spot
there was no need to guess at 19:24
"Finally I'm gonna win this one" ... 5 seconds ... "Oh I misclicked that!"
What are the odds with perfect play? It's been a long time but I don't remember minesweeper being that hard.
there we go one more, one one one more more more
Man how good is Hikaru at this?! I have to solve a 4 eq - 4 unknown system of equations before deciding about the mines.
After u play it for some time it becomes muscle memory
Ayyyy
Another game I can’t beat hikaru at
Rare footage of a ww2 minesweeper
" one one one"
1:33 no you didn’t!
Guess this debunk that idea where a chess player performance is dictated mainly by memorizing pattern. But here we are, a game which rely mainly on logic and calculation than memory.