Minesweeper: Difference between revisions

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* [[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 Based Mission]]: Happens fairly frequently. See [[Luck Based Mission|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.

* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Happens fairly frequently. See [[Luck-Based Mission|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.

* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: In some versions, you cannot be killed on your first move.