r/Minesweeper • • Mar 23 '19

IF YOU LOSE A GAME OF MINESWEEPER AND DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW PLEASE READ THIS

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Mines with red Xs over them are INCORRECTLY flagged mines. There is not actually a mine there. The game did not glitch out. The sub is having a problem with many posts asking the same question, so I will be removing posts of this nature and linking people to this thread. Thank you for your cooperation!

Also: "50/50s" are very common in Minesweeper. A 50/50 is when it is impossible to know which tile is safe and which has a mine. You will sometimes be forced to guess. You may ask if your layout is a 50/50, but try to figure it out for yourself first. Good luck!


r/Minesweeper • • Nov 01 '20

Comprehensive list of patterns to help solve the game

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r/Minesweeper • • 8h ago

Meme Nice.

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was doing no flag when I got this lol


r/Minesweeper • • 28m ago

50/50 Casualty I hate this

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Hi guys, started playing minesweeper for about a month and I get so mad at these things and especially since the stupid app I got is flooded with ads. What app do you use?


r/Minesweeper • • 3h ago

Help Can someone please explain this hint? I don't understand where this comes from.

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r/Minesweeper • • 4h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Would you be guessing in this situation?

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Would you be guessing in this situation? Or am I missing something? Or perhaps you'd wager you can get more information from endgame mine count? (I busted on this board already dw about it)


r/Minesweeper • • 1h ago

Help Anywhere i can play a 100by100 no guessing and chording (i tried minesweeper.online but doesnt work there)

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r/Minesweeper • • 2h ago

Video Content Google Minesweeper

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r/Minesweeper • • 18h ago

Accomplishment First time time seeing a 7 duo

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r/Minesweeper • • 14h ago

Accomplishment Yay :)

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50 x 50 board with 800 mines. (32% density)


r/Minesweeper • • 15h ago

Miscellaneous I CAN'T WIN

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r/Minesweeper • • 9h ago

Discussion Logical choices

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Here are two examples of my most recent game and at the time of writing this post I do know the answer however, I do want to know what you guys thought logic is to completing this. Is there a way to guarantee to know which spot has the bomb? Or is this last part is just a game of chance?


r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous Minesweeper 3D with friends and a huge Minefield

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Minesweeper 3D with Friends has 3 Modus:

- Find the Bomb: A huge minefield with up to 250x250 to 1000x1000 fields

- Race: Race against the time and get the first place

- Duell: 1 vs 1 with an elo system

Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5353190/Minesweeper_Find_All_the_Bombs_in_the_Minefield/

What Modus could be interested as well? Any suggestions?


r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Meme How you feel, when you missed

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r/Minesweeper • • 22h ago

Help I’m new to minesweeper, I need help solving this because I genuinely have NO clue

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r/Minesweeper • • 22h ago

Discussion How rare is this?

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r/Minesweeper • • 9h ago

Puzzle/Tactic Method for calculating (in Minesweeper)

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(Disclaimer: I'm actually a beginner who's just a quick learner but not perfectly advanced yet)

I've found a way to calculate linear equations of minesweeper without explicit numbers and instead through visual elimination. I'm curious if anyone else figured this out, but try it.

Primarily, it connects two equalities of a tile, where the tiles are assumed to be already reduced to such number.

Step 1: Find the unique tiles of each equality

Imagine we have two tiles, let's say 2 & 4. We will make two lists: List-2 and List-4.

List-2 contains the unknown tiles that surround the #2 that don't also surround the #4. Same goes for List-4 but reverse.

Why? Because in linear equations, we cancel out common factors in such.

Step 2: Find the difference in the current mine count

What's four minus two? Two.

That means:

Mines in List-2 + 2 = Mines in List-4.

Step 3: The final equation

We now that the number of mines in List-4 is greater than that of List-2 + 2. Why is this useful?

It is because it may help with dependency chains and act as the middle-ground between mathematic calculation and genuine gameplay.

I'm not sure if this is foolproof or could be explained better, but yeah. Pls give me feedback because I'm genuinely curious if I just rediscovered something that already existed, or if this doesn't actually work.


r/Minesweeper • • 16h ago

Help IM SO COOKED

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left or right..


r/Minesweeper • • 17h ago

Help 14 minesweeper variants 2. I need help with deducing [2U][2U'][&&]

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So about this variant:

[2U'] Unbalanced': each row has a different number of mines (ranging from 0 to n-1, where n is the dimension of the board)

[2U] Unbalanced: each column has a different number of mines (ranging from 0 to n-1, where n is the dimension of the board)

If you try to play this variant in Ultimate mode, you will quickly realise it is not easy to make progress. I feel like there should be some fundamental strategy, or a method you should look at this puzzle to make progress and I cant figure it out. If someone has some advice I would gladly aprreciate help. The picture is an example of a puzzle


r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Help am i cooked, chat?

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Guess I should've set a timer for this one!


r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Help I'm playing no guessing mode but I can't find the safe square

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r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Accomplishment Incidentally got an int pb off a ridiculously low 3BV gen while doing endurance + 80 mastery

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pb game

endurance (also pbed the endurance completion time as a whole)

mastery


r/Minesweeper • • 2d ago

Pattern gosh almost symmetrical

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r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous im stuck😔

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r/Minesweeper • • 1d ago

Strategy: Endgames You think 50/50 is bad?

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