As in, the game cheats — not “how you can beat Minesweeper.” At least so says Subversity. Not that I don’t believe him, but I don’t think it’s exactly cheating.
Apparently, Minesweeper only places some of the bombs at the beginning, and it will also move un-found bombs during the game.
Interestingly, it apparently will move a bomb that you click on — preventing you from losing. But the blog post doesn’t make clear whether it will move other bombs to affect the outcome. If it’s just shifting them around in the unaffected play area, it wouldn’t make a difference. (Of course, that begs the question: If it wouldn’t make a difference, why do it?)
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Steve says:
Turns out it will cheat for you so that you can’t click on a bomb on the first turn – then once you’ve made your first selection, nothing else moves.
gnomic says:
Sound like bad programming to me, but it begs the question – how do they know? Does it go thud?