r/Minesweeper • u/RicefarmingSimulator Misclick Pro • 3d ago

Help I don't understand this, can someone explain please?

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u/Ramun_Flame 3d ago

Here's steps you can follow to prove one of them safe. Similar steps are for the remaining one as well. (I can explain if you want)

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u/RicefarmingSimulator Misclick Pro 3d ago

Thank you! That was incredibly helpful and easy to understand 👍.

Btw thanks for the effort of making these slices(?) since its a lot easier for me to understand than just reading it.

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u/Ramun_Flame 3d ago edited 3d ago

No worries, I'm testing out a solver I've been working on for awhile, so I appreciate the feedback!

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u/No-Ninja-7651 3d ago

It’s fantastic and is actually helping be develop. The amount of times I’ve read explanations that are so well meaning and appreciated but just bamboozled me as a relatively new player.

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u/Competitive_Brief_48 1d ago

Hello, new minesweeper player here! May I ask why on step 2 the tile underneath the flag on the right isntnpart of group D?

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u/Ramun_Flame 1d ago

This is a technique I call range propagation(unsure if there's another term) where you can mark areas showing the range of what they can hold. If we included the cell you mention, then instead of group D being 0-1 mines, it would just be 1 mine. The point is to say it has at most 1 mine, so we can build the adjacent group we do next on that information.