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''Minesweeper'' is a nice little puzzle game packed with every version of UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows up to Windows 7. When you start the game, first you must select the difficulty: beginner, intermediate or expert. The levels will affect the size of the board (9×9, 16×16, 16×30) and the number of mines (10, 40, 99) respectively. [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels The level is randomly generated]]. By left-clicking any square on the grid, you will either open a new area, [[GameOver detonate a mine]] or find a number. That number tells you the number of adjacent mines. Right-clicking places flags where you think there's a mine. Middle-clicking a number with a matching number of flags adjacent to it uncovers all squares adjacent to it that are ''not'' flagged, which will set off a mine if even one flag is in the wrong square.

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''Minesweeper'' is a nice little puzzle game packed with every version of UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Platform/MicrosoftWindows up to Windows 7. When you start the game, first you must select the difficulty: beginner, intermediate or expert. The levels will affect the size of the board (9×9, 16×16, 16×30) and the number of mines (10, 40, 99) respectively. [[RandomlyGeneratedLevels The level is randomly generated]]. By left-clicking any square on the grid, you will either open a new area, [[GameOver detonate a mine]] or find a number. That number tells you the number of adjacent mines. Right-clicking places flags where you think there's a mine. Middle-clicking a number with a matching number of flags adjacent to it uncovers all squares adjacent to it that are ''not'' flagged, which will set off a mine if even one flag is in the wrong square.



** The Vista and 7 versions are fully compatible with UsefulNotes/Xbox360 controllers, a feature that isn't described anywhere in help files. The controller even rumbles if you hit a mine.

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** The Vista and 7 versions are fully compatible with UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Platform/Xbox360 controllers, a feature that isn't described anywhere in help files. The controller even rumbles if you hit a mine.
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Nintendo Hard and Self Imposed Challenge became YMMV items, so I'm moving them to the correct place


* NintendoHard:
** Larger boards with more hidden mines require a larger amount of skill and luck to detect the location of mines.
** ''Crazy Minesweeper'' and ''Super Minesweeper'' contain modes with medium and large-sized bombs that count as two and three bombs respectively, making it harder to determine which tiles contain mines in a given area.



* SelfImposedChallenge: It is possible to win a game of Minesweeper without ever setting down a flag. Some clones in particular have separate high scores for games that are finished with no flags dropped.
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Technicality aside


* SchrodingersGun: As you cannot lose on a first click no matter what, if the first click happens to be a mine, the board is randomized or that mine is moved away.

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* SchrodingersGun: As you cannot lose on a first click no matter what, (except when replaying the same board), if the first click happens to be a mine, the board is randomized or that mine is moved away.

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Funny as it is, the Epic Fail entry is fabricated. Can't lose on first click, and the minimum custom setting is 10 mines.


* EpicFail: It rarely happens, but... what happens when you play this game on super-easy mode with ''only one'' landmine... and [[https://cheezburger.com/6296988160/fail-level-10000 it's under the first tile you click]].



%%* SchrodingersGun: See AntiFrustrationFeatures above.

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%%* * SchrodingersGun: See AntiFrustrationFeatures above.As you cannot lose on a first click no matter what, if the first click happens to be a mine, the board is randomized or that mine is moved away.
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Gushing. Also, it happened; so it's literally not impossible.


The world record for Expert difficulty is [[https://www.speedrun.com/minesweeper/run/m37pdk4z currently 27.53 seconds]], set by [[ChildProdigy Ze-En Ju]], who broke a record [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable almost as old as he is]].[[note]]The previous holder's record of 31.133 seconds was eleven years old at the time it was broken. Ze-En Ju was twelve. [[BeyondTheImpossible He broke it again a month later.]][[/note]]

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The world record for Expert difficulty is [[https://www.speedrun.com/minesweeper/run/m37pdk4z currently 27.53 seconds]], set by [[ChildProdigy Ze-En Ju]], who broke a record [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable almost as old as he is]].[[note]]The previous holder's record of 31.133 seconds was eleven years old at the time it was broken. Ze-En Ju was twelve. [[BeyondTheImpossible He broke it again a month later.]][[/note]][[/note]]
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* WikiRule: [[http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Main_Page Right here]]
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It has been changed.


* LuckBasedMission: Happens fairly frequently. See [[LuckBasedMission the article's]] image for an example. Basically, it amounts to knowing exactly how many tiles in a set have mines but not being able to confirm (with perfect accuracy) which ones in that set have mines, despite having cleared out the rest of the board. It's also the reason a perfect (non-cheating) AI doesn't exist for ''Minesweeper'', too. There's also a couple of other reasons a perfect AI doesn't exist, not least the NP-completeness of the problem.

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* LuckBasedMission: Happens fairly frequently. See [[LuckBasedMission the article's]] image for an example. Basically, it amounts to knowing exactly how many tiles in a set have mines but not being able to confirm (with perfect accuracy) which ones in that set have mines, despite having cleared out the rest of the board. It's also the reason a perfect (non-cheating) AI doesn't exist for ''Minesweeper'', too. There's also a couple of other reasons a perfect AI doesn't exist, not least the NP-completeness of the problem.
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The world record for Expert difficulty is [[https://www.speedrun.com/minesweeper/run/m37pdk4z currently 27.53 seconds]], set by [[ChildProdigy Ze-En Ju]], who broke a record [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable almost as old as he is]].[[note]]The previous record of 31.133 seconds was eleven years old at the time it was broken. Ze-En Ju was twelve. [[BeyondTheImpossible He broke it again a month later.]][[/note]]

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The world record for Expert difficulty is [[https://www.speedrun.com/minesweeper/run/m37pdk4z currently 27.53 seconds]], set by [[ChildProdigy Ze-En Ju]], who broke a record [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable almost as old as he is]].[[note]]The previous holder's record of 31.133 seconds was eleven years old at the time it was broken. Ze-En Ju was twelve. [[BeyondTheImpossible He broke it again a month later.]][[/note]]

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