• Konlanx@feddit.de
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    It’s super simple!

    You click a square, it’s either a bomb or not. If it’s not, it will show a number telling you how many of the surrounding 8 squares contain a bomb. If a square has 0 bombs in surrounding squares it will just open, so you save unnecessary clicks. It’s the goal to click every square that does not contain a bomb. If you click a bomb, you lose.

    After understanding the rules you can beat the game super quick and easily.

    • DagonPie@kbin.social
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      Except when its a 50/50 in the corner. That happens so much and i will never recover from that anxiety.

      • Korne127@lemmy.world
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        Ever tried Logic Minesweeper? It’s pretty cool: It’s basically Minesweeper without randomness:
        If you guess and have to guess because it’s impossible to know that any square has no bomb, it will always not be a bomb and you can continue.
        But if you guess and click on a square where you don’t know whether it’s a bomb while there are other squares where you could know it and safely click on it, it will always be a bomb and you’ll lose!

        So in summary: No randomness (no random dying because you had to guess and no random clicking on squares because you’re currently in a difficult situation).

  • czeskilager@szmer.info
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    if you’re interested, try Antimine on Fdroid, best minesweeper app I’ve found, and it’s open source

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      Good recommendation, thanks. Another game on fdroid that’s worth trying is Mindustry, but it’s a totally different kind of game.

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        God i fucking LOVE mindustry. I especially love playing PvP. Getting to build and command an entire robot army from scratch feels very good for me. I even bought it on steam

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      Thanks for reminding me I have this installed. I’ve spent all day playing this instead of doing my work.

  • WizBiz [He/Him]
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    I tried to play it on my google play games app that was pre installed on my phone but I never understood the rules. I did learn to play solitaire on there tho.

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    If you maximise the grid area and minimise the number of mines you can win with one lucky click :-)