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On Dream Boards in Microsoft's Minesweeper
by Tim Kostka
Dream Boards on Beginner
 Out of the 50,000 some boards in the Beginner board cycles, there are absolutely none with an unmodified 3BV of 1. There are a few that can have a 3BV of 1 if the user clicks in the exact right spot (TLM occurance) and these are discussed in the one-second bug article. There are two boards with an unmodified 3BV of 2 and ten or so with an unmodified 3BV of 3. The term unmodified is used here to denote a board that has been changed by one mine due to the user's first click. The two unmodified 3BV 2 boards are on the right.
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Dream Boards on Intermediate
The two cycles in Intermediate produce around 25,000 unique boards, the most popular of which is the Dream Board with a 30 3BV rating. The board got its name since so many people got their best time on it. It may come as a surprise to learn that there are 6 boards with under the DB's 30 3BV rating. Here's just a few of the low 3BV boards.
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| The Dream Board (3BV: 30) | 3BV: 27 |
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| 3BV: 30 | 3BV: 31 |
Dream Boards on Expert
Expert has an extremely large board cycle (at least over 300,000), so there isn't a "Dream Board" like in Intermediate since the same board never pops up enough. Out of the 300,000 expert boards I went through, the lowest and highest 3BV were 97 and 268, and here they are:
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