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About: Minesweeper
Your goal is to clear all of the squares on the board that don’t have mines, and flag all of the mines.
Try to expose every square in the grid that is not one of the hidden mines, without opening any square that is a mine.
Click in a square to open it. Every opened square are marked with the number of mines in the surrounding 8 squares, if there are any, if not, all the surrounding squares are automatically opened.
How To Play: Minesweeper
TIPS AND STRATEGY:
When you start playing Minesweeper, you’ll have to pick a square at random. Your first square will never be a mine, but there’s no way to know whether that square will turn up blank or numbered. However, it’s best to start in the center of the board, since if you pick a tile close to a corner it’s easier to find yourself stuck with no good moves early in the game. With that said, since you’re being timed, it’s best to just pick a square and get started. You can make better-educated choices after clicking on your first square.
LOOK FOR NUMBERS THAT TOUCH THE SAME NUMBER OF SQUARES
When a 1 is only touching one uncleared square, that square must be a mine. This is the same for 2, 3, and so on. Of course this sounds obvious, but when you are stuck, look around the board for instances of this you may have missed! It’s very easy to work in one direction after opening up a new area of the board and forget to look in other directions.
LOOK FOR PATTERNS
The more you play Mines Weeper the more you’ll pick up on different patterns. For example, if you have a row of numbers that go 1-2-1 and the squares on the top or bottom of this row are cleared, you know you should flag the two squares next to the two 1s, regardless of what numbers are next to the 1s on either side (even if there is an unchecked square there!). This is because there can’t be a mine next to the 2, since then there would be no other place to put the second mine. Similarly, if you have a row of numbers that similarly goes 1-2-2-1 and is clearly above or below, no matter what is on the other side of the 1s from the 2s, the mines must be next to the 2s. There are many more patterns than these to discover as you play!
DO YOU HAVE TO GUESS IN ORDER TO PLAY MINES WEEPER?
Oftentimes Mines Weeper is dismissed as a game of luck. However, if players really put their mind to it, there doesn’t have to be a ton of guessing. In some versions of Mines Weeper, depending on the difficulty level, there doesn’t have to be any guessing whatsoever a lot of the time.
Our advice - think long and hard before you decide to guess. There may be one more square that you don’t have to guess on, make sure to weigh all of your options before leaping into the unknown of guessing. If you try and avoid guessing at all costs whenever you can, you’ll be surprised by how many Mine Sweeper games are winnable with minimal risk.
IS THERE A TRICK TO PLAY MINE SWEEPER?
Mines Weeper is a pretty straightforward game, with not a ton of sneaky tricks to it. The main 'trick' is to just be patient and consider all of your options.
One tip that we have - if there is a square that only has one mine next to it, and it is tucked away in a corner surrounded by safe squares to the left and right, then the mine must be directly diagonal to it.
Have fun!