- Awesome Music: Minesweeper - The Musical
, which re imagines the game as an epic western. - Memetic Mutation: Minesweeper Bosses Explanation
- Nightmare Fuel: The game can become this when a player is very concentrated and suddenly clicks on a mine. Especially in the Vista/Windows 7 version where the mines actually make explosion noises when clicked. That and the way the smiley face in previous versions just sits at the top of the screen, staring, waiting for you to mess up.
- Nightmare Retardant: The Vista/Windows 7 version has a mode that replaces mines with flowers that, when clicked, plays a very relaxing tune that would more likely be associated with winning than losing. Done in part to prevent No Export for You. There are parts of the world where leftover explosive devices are a big problem and including the game would prevent Windows from being sold there. So we get a pleasant field of flowers instead.
- Nintendo Hard:
- 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.
- Older Than They Think: Many people came to know the game through Windows, but its origins go as far back as the 1960s. The Level Goal system introduced in the Windows 8 version is derived from various games in the 1980s, such as Mined-Out, Relentless Logic and XMines.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: 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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