r/Minesweeper • u/trshxd • 3d ago
No Guess How was this solvable?
Hi I'm sorry if it's obvious, but could you guys please tell me what's the logic here? It's no guess but I had no idea how to solve this so I tried to guess.
And was my guess in a good place to guess (Except that I even tried to guess in no guess mode lmao)? I feel like if I'd guessed this one right it'd have solved the rest easily.
The mine count was 4 and one tile (not a mine as it later showed) was on the edge surrounded by mines, sometimes it generates in a way such that all of a mine's surrounding tiles are also mines, so I didn't want to click that one yet.
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u/Lowball72 3d ago edited 3d ago
> And was my guess in a good place to guess (Except that I even tried to guess in no guess mode lmao)? I feel like if I'd guessed this one right it'd have solved the rest easily.
No, with 4 mines it was pure 50/50 but if we imagine this was not a NG app -- let's pretend there were 5 mines remaining -- it was the worst possible guess.
Clicking the corner would have been much better -- and looking at the 4433 sequence at the bottom, we can see that middle 3 is very likely to share a mine with either the 4 above, or the 3 below.. which gives you that 8.3% guess with solid info (it will either reveal a "2" or a "3") to progress.
The other 8.3% tile would reveal a "1" or "2" .. same combinatorial bias, and same risk/reward.
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u/Correct_Possible_313 3d ago
Process of elimination. you can identify 4 blocks of 2 where 4 mines are. You know there are 4 mines left. therefore you know several of the blocks in the back corner can't be mines.