chest hunt busted

[Rhabarber Barbar]

i have had like 6 or so chest hunts where my first chest selected was a mimic. what is this? is this a prank? why is it like this. imagine being able to click on a mine first turn in minesweeper.

edit: it just happened twice more. in a row! whyyy????

edit2: thrice

[Jerry]

That's an unusual rate. However, soon enough you will wish to get such starts. There are permanent equipment pieces that allow you to take out any mimic you encounter in your first and second chest, and another to shield you from one mimic during the whole hunt.

Perfect chests hunts (all chests opened) may seem almost impossible to you now, but they can be done too.

[Thanatos]

It's not that unlikely for this to happen.

Eventually you get upgrades that protect your first two picks, automatically killing mimics if you find them, so you start WANTING to hit the mimics first.

[fryhop]

it is annoying getting hit with a mimic first pick, though the chest hunts are busted the other way around too for spirits can give you a big yield if you don't accidentally pick the mimic early

[tstki]

get the chest saver.
but yeah, ive had this happen a LOT as well

[zephyr_goldwing]

Originally posted by Rhabarber Barbar:

imagine being able to click on a mine first turn in minesweeper. :stress:

...if you're playing a game of minesweeper where that's not possible then you're not playing minesweeper.

[Jerry]

Originally posted by zephyr_goldwing:

Originally posted by Rhabarber Barbar:

imagine being able to click on a mine first turn in minesweeper. :stress:

...if you're playing a game of minesweeper where that's not possible then you're not playing minesweeper.

Minesweeper does indeed have a first click save. No matter what the board looks like, you'll always get a free field in your first.
Try setting up a custom board with one mine less than fields and give it a try.

[zephyr_goldwing]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Originally posted by zephyr_goldwing:

...if you're playing a game of minesweeper where that's not possible then you're not playing minesweeper.

Minesweeper does indeed have a first click save. No matter what the board looks like, you'll always get a free field in your first.
Try setting up a custom board with one mine less than fields and give it a try.

Sadly it's been a while since I had a version of Windows that included minesweeper (I don't use the store etc.), but I definitely remember being able to hit mines on the first turn. Perhaps more modern/alternate versions of minesweeper have introduced this feature.

[Jerry]

Originally posted by zephyr_goldwing:

Originally posted by Jerry:

Minesweeper does indeed have a first click save. No matter what the board looks like, you'll always get a free field in your first.
Try setting up a custom board with one mine less than fields and give it a try.

Sadly it's been a while since I had a version of Windows that included minesweeper (I don't use the store etc.), but I definitely remember being able to hit mines on the first turn. Perhaps more modern/alternate versions of minesweeper have introduced this feature.

I copied my Windows XP version over here to play it (along with Solitaire, Hearts and Freecell), as my Windows 8.1 does not have a store and stuff. I can guarantee, that it works like I described, and it definitely did so at very least down to Windows 98 (I played on Win 95 and 3.11 too, but that's a bit too long ago to remember this fact).

There were a couple of years around 2000, when I was running on an extremely weak computer, with this being a game, I spent hours every evening on to relax (and because my little one could run it). You're talking to an expert, so to say. :-)

[zephyr_goldwing]

Maybe I just don't remember the first pick since it was guaranteed then *shrug* or I'm mixing it up with clones/variants played more recently.