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{{quote|"Each time you dig, you will find a ''number''. That number will tell you ''exactly'' how many mines are adjacent to your square..."|''[[Minesweeper]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs The Movie Trailer]''}}
''[[Minesweeper]]'' is a nice little puzzle game packed with every [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] operating system. 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. [[Randomly Generated Levels|The level is randomly generated]]. By left-clicking any square on the grid, you will either open a new area, 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.
''Minesweeper'' is known to have quite a few little strategies:
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* A generalization of 3 along a wall: If you see two numbers that are adjacent (not diagonal, but sharing a side) to each other and they differ by 3, (such as 4 and 1, or 5 and 2) then all 3 squares on the other side of the larger number are mines and all 3 on the other side of the smaller are safe.
The world record for Expert difficulty (as of October 2020) is [https://web.archive.org/web/20210320061441/http://www.minesweeper.info/
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* [[Bomb Disposal]]
* [[Classic Cheat Code]]: {{spoiler|XYZZY}}
* [[Cool Shades]]: [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|Your sole reward for winning.]] Until Windows 10 came along and started handing out Xbox achievements ([[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|and running ads in the game]]).
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: KABOOM!
* [[Game Mod]]: There's a lot of [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mines-perfect/ open-source clones] of this game, including several odd variants including hexagonal Minesweeper (imagine playing it in a beehive) and ''spherical'' Minesweeper.
* [[Luck
** There's also a couple of other reasons a perfect AI doesn't exist, not least the NP-completeness of the problem.
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: In some versions, you cannot be killed on your first move.
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** The Vista/Windows 7 makes it so not only is the first square empty, so are all the adjacent squares. Naturally, this is turned off for when you replay the same layout.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: That clock will keep ticking until it reaches 999.
** [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|"What happens then?" "Nothing. You just suck."]]
* [[Random Number God]]: At some point, you're probably going to have to guess. Better hope the god is on your side, or you can lose <s>an hour</s> ten minutes of cautious probing.
* [[Randomly Generated Levels]]
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs Minesweeper: The Movie]
* (Virtually) [[Unwinnable]]: Unless you're some sort of Jesus, you won't win on 668 mines.
** Well, theoretically, you could probably use a debugger to find all the tiles with mines, but it would be more trouble than it would be worth.
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*** Blow yourself up in the vista/7 version. Print Screen. Paste into Paint. Win.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: "Hmm... There must be three mines around that 2, let's click he- Shit."
* [[What Happened to
* [[X Meets Y]]: [http://www.hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper/ Mamono Sweeper] is Minesweeper meets JRPG, with monsters and levelling-up.
** And [http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/cluesweeper Clue Sweeper] is [[Exactly What It Says
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