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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Minesweeper (video game)}} [[File:maria-sama_ga_miteru_-_yoshino-yumi_minesweeper_-_you_die_in_the_game_you_die_for_real.png\|link=Maria Watches Over Us\|~~right~~frame]] {{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: Line 12: * 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/~~worldranking~~worldrecords/index.html ~~currently~~?category=Time+Expert 31.133 seconds] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1cPlfTcg8 previous record]). {{tropelist}} * [[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. Line 47: [[Category:Linux]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:Video Game]]