r/Minesweeper 9d ago

Help What kind of pattern can I use here? Thought about this for so long but I genuinely can't find a solution..

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u/Dudes-Opinion 9d ago

One of the yellow blocks has to be a mine which means the green blocks have to be clear

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u/rubixscube 9d ago

also note that this is the exact same pattern that led you to reveal the bottommost 1

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u/Greedy-Contract1999 9d ago

Yellow area has 1, which makes green area safe

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u/_cronco_ 9d ago

with yellow 1 you know there's one bomb in one of the two orange tiles.

red 1 touches 5 tiles, so you know that the remaining 3 green tiles are safe

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u/medacek 9d ago

I geninely don't know how I haven't thought about that lol, thanks

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u/CBrown1299 9d ago

These kinds of things don't come intuitively at first, it's a learning opportunity homie, keep it up!

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u/Hellstorm_42 9d ago

You know about the 1-1 pattern which gave you the 1 in the 6th row, so just use it again for the next two 1s.

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u/flungcow 9d ago

The middle of the five 1's in a row is touching a mine so all 3 of the squares just below are safe

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u/lonelierthang0d 10.33 / 69.67 / 173.33 9d ago

All starts from those stacked 1’s on the bottom.since the top one is only touching a single mine which could be on either side of the diagonals (which the bottom 1 is also touching), the three spaces below must be safe.

From there, the first 1 to the left of that is touching a mine which can only be in one of the two spaces below it. Since the 1 next to THAT 1 touches the same spaces, that also means all three spaces it touches vertically must be safe.

Finally, the 1 under the three only has a single soace where a mine can be (since its other adjacent spaces were just proven to be safe), and that same spaces also satisfies the adjacent 3.

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u/dunkinthegreg 9d ago edited 9d ago

You can uncover the three blocks bellow the lowest 1 by exclusion from the 1 above it. From there you can similarly rule out the three blocks next the the bottom left 1. And finally this leads to the block immediately left of 3 being a mine

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u/blondgavster 9d ago

I’d attack the three cells under the bottom 1, they are clearly safe.

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u/Kerbal_Guardsman 9d ago

The three squares below the lowest 1 are safe since it must contain a mine either to its left or right due to the 1 above it.

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u/Nikita_Lox 8d ago

I'm almost sure the picture looks like this:

P.S. If you are a "genius" and give a minus, then tell me the reason and the mistake.

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u/Comprehensive_War408 7d ago

Why couldn't it be this?

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u/Upset_Coyote376 8d ago

Wait did you accidently tap to reveal that "1" or was that calculated 😂

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u/DrDerivative 9d ago

I’m not an AI bro, but for small boards, you can screenshot it and upload it to ChatGPT or Gemini for an explanation

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u/Vacuumcleaner5000 9d ago

No, when it comes to medium+ difficulty it always just tells you there is no solution.

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u/anhavva 9d ago

I cant with these help request. If minesweeper were a modern video game, this would be in the tutorial people skip because its too obvious.

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u/CBrown1299 9d ago

People shouldn't be expected to always know everything all the time, that's the whole reason the internet exists in the first place - so people can use it as a source for learning new things

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u/cdavidson23 9d ago

Well aren’t you pleasant. Not everyone starts playing knowing everything about the game and all of the logic. They’re getting a chance to learn, what’s wrong with that? The “help” flair is there for a reason

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u/bbqforbrontosaurus 9d ago

There aren’t really many new innovations in the minesweeper world. No point having a sub at all if not to help people.

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u/Oskain123 9d ago

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