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I continue the hashtag and plus grind. I was hoping to be able to finish enough of them to unlock the next mode in this episode, but I only managed to finish 8 boards. It turns out the larger boards take a much longer time to complete. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Previous Episode: https://rumble.com/v4xrpzw-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-5-balance-eyesight-hashtag-and-plus.html Next Episode: Episode 1 (with links to all other episodes): https://rumble.com/v4ujfp8-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-1-ultimate-mode-vqcml.html

This is where things get a bit crazy. The game is now combining variants, so to deal with this stuff you have to know what all the variants are and be able to adapt to new situations. I only manage to complete 14 boards this time, fewer than ever before. Things are getting a little difficult. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Previous Episode: https://rumble.com/v4xjx9t-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-4-snake-cross-balance-partition-and-eyesigh.html Next Episode: https://rumble.com/v4ywjgi-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-6-hashtag-and-plus.html Episode 1 (with links to all other episodes): https://rumble.com/v4ujfp8-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-1-ultimate-mode-vqcml.html

I complete 16 boards once again. Of course, as usual I get destroyed on some boards. With this, I have done some of each one of the 14 main variants. Next time we will get to see the game go off the rails. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Previous Episode: https://rumble.com/v4x8v0k-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-3-negation-outside-dual-cross-and-snake.html Next Episode: https://rumble.com/v4xrpzw-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-5-balance-eyesight-hashtag-and-plus.html Episode 1 (with links to all other episodes): https://rumble.com/v4ujfp8-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-1-ultimate-mode-vqcml.html

I only manage to do 16 boards this time, but some of these deductions were somewhat complicated. We are getting close to finishing all the variants, at which point we will have to deal with the combinations. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Previous Episode: https://rumble.com/v4vz99l-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-2-liar-connected-triplet-wall-outside-and-n.html Next Episode: https://rumble.com/v4xjx9t-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-4-snake-cross-balance-partition-and-eyesigh.html Episode 1 (with links to all other episodes): https://rumble.com/v4ujfp8-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-1-ultimate-mode-vqcml.html

I manage to do 20 boards this time, but I messed up a lot on some of the boards. The variants are getting more complicated, so this will be a lot more difficult pretty soon. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Previous Episode: https://rumble.com/v4ujfp8-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-1-ultimate-mode-vqcml.html Next Episode: https://rumble.com/v4x8v0k-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-3-negation-outside-dual-cross-and-snake.html

I begin a new letsplay series: 14 Minesweeper Variants. Ultimate mode was just added to the game, so this was a perfect opportunity to start a new playthrough. So far it hasn't been too difficult to speed through these boards (though admittedly the 5x5 base variants do typically go super fast, so the fact that I was only able to do 15 boards in an hour is actually relatively slow). I also had to explain my reasoning in a lot of cases, which made it take a little longer, but this does seem to be going pretty well. 14 Minesweeper Variants Series: Episode 2: https://rumble.com/v4vz99l-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-2-liar-connected-triplet-wall-outside-and-n.html Episode 3: https://rumble.com/v4x8v0k-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-3-negation-outside-dual-cross-and-snake.html Episode 4: https://rumble.com/v4xjx9t-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-4-snake-cross-balance-partition-and-eyesigh.html Episode 5: https://rumble.com/v4xrpzw-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-5-balance-eyesight-hashtag-and-plus.html Episode 6: https://rumble.com/v4ywjgi-14-minesweeper-variants-episode-6-hashtag-and-plus.html

I do a run of both of the runs I will be running at SRM. LTTH went pretty well, being a new personal best by a large margin, but SR7.5 was pretty bad, going over estimate by a little bit. This does indicate that SRM should go alright for me though.

This run started out really great but then course 6, CCC, and Baratrok were all disasters, particularly Baratrok.

Today things went decently well up until course 6, where I lost around 15 minutes, so I was only about 5 minutes ahead after that. Then I lost 15 more minutes in Color-Coded Carnage. Then somehow I managed to do well enough in Golden Danger Dice and Baratrok Sphere to make the run a PB by 1.7 seconds.

This run started out pretty good, being almost 40 minutes ahead coming out of course 6, but all that time was lost to Color-Coded Carnage and Baratrok Sphere.

My first run of LTTH 74. It was terrible pretty much everywhere, but Color-Coded Carnage and Baratrok Sphere 100's went pretty well.

I practice Baratrok 100s and then get Baratrok 100s along with the other two stars at the top, completing this playthrough. Hopefully with some off-stream practice tomorrow I can be ready for runs by Monday.

I do a dark stars run and get sub 2:30. I want to improve this eventually but for now I think I should focus on SSRM2023, so I practiced LTTH in an effort to be ready to do a run of it at SRM.

I achieved my goal in 131 star, so I do a run of Dark Stars. It was a bit of a disaster.

I forgot to upload my local recordings to rumble for awhile apparently so I don't remember much about this one, but this is where I got the WR in 130 star only for it to be taken back later that day. Then I did a run on 1.1 to try to get a better time than my 1.0 PB.

If I recall this was a pretty short stream and I only did one run of 131 star and it wasn't that good of a run.

Both runs were WR pace coming out of Oil Canyon, and both were lost. One of them ended up PBing by 5.5 seconds, the other didn't.

The first run was good in the early game but lost a lot of time to the 50 star door BLJ and Hot Blue Mountain. It was ahead of PB at some point after that but it fell apart in the endgame. The next run had a similar early game and also lost a lot of time to Hot Blue Mountain, but was about even with PB going into Purple Waste Jungle, where I lost 4 minutes. Then somehow everything after Oil Canyon went well and I managed to PB by over a minute.

I get a decent run that falls apart in the endgame and doesn't even finish because I got a game over to Timerock. Then I get a much better run that probably would have been WR if the game hadn't crashed in Fort Blue. It still was a PB by a decent margin, though. Then I try to get another run going but can't get out of Flying Factory Fortress.

Once again I get a PB. This time it was the first run of the day, not the second. The second one ended up being slower than my PB from yesterday after I was way ahead but melted down in Hot Blue Mountain and Black 'n' White.

Didn't have to spend too much time resetting. The first run had a terrible start but got ahead of PB later on but lost PB to the ending by a few seconds. Then I got another run that was way better and got a PB by about 5 minutes.

I get an insane Remnant of Doom 115 Star PB, which completes my sweep of updating the WRs for all the versions and categories. Therefore I move on to SR7.5, Kedowser's Return 130 Star, using the ultra badge early route. The run is pretty bad for the most part, but I did early ultra badge almost perfectly.

I started pretty late so I only really had time for one run, but it was a PB by a decent margin. I will have to see how low I can reasonably take this over the next few days. Since I didn't really have time for another run after that, I got some practice in.

I think this one had two runs (I kept forgetting to upload this so I don't even remember how things went from two days ago). The last one ended up being just slightly slower than my PB.

I got a run that was slightly ahead coming out of Blue Moonlid Desert, but the endgame completely fell apart so it finished as a 2:48. I really haven't been playing very well lately, so hopefully I can get something good eventually.