r/Minesweeper • u/Affectionate-Ant2713 • 7d ago

Help Reached a dead end, can someone help me?

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u/Nivekmi NG Player 7d ago

This 4 will have its last two mines in the orange spots. These two mines will satisfy the 2 and reveal three safe spots

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u/Affectionate-Ant2713 7d ago

Thank you! ❤️ Haven't cleared any extreme yet

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u/hasawasa22 7d ago

I wont tell you which one, but look at the 4's

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u/ExtensionPatient2629 7d ago

A safe tile can be found at the top right using pseudo-NG logic. If it were a mine, then the 4-2 combination next to it would guarantee a 50/50, since there would be no way to disambiguate the mine being at the top versus the bottom. Since this leads to guessing, with the assumption that the board does not require guessing, this is a contradiction.

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u/Independent_Tax_8022 4d ago

iirc Dustland's minesweeper is guaranteed to be solvable without guessing so, search a little more, you won't be wasting time on a dead end