Questions tagged [minesweeper]
Questions about Minesweeper (the game or the [grid-deduction] puzzle genre). Some non-bomb cells display the number of adjacent bombs, and finding all bombs is the goal. In the puzzle some numbers are pre-given, while in the game cells must be clicked on to reveal their numbers.
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 11: Christmas tree edition)
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Contains: Single mines (1 mine), Double mines (2 mines), Triple mines (3 mines)
To get the $\color{green}✓$:
Solve the Nonogram
Solve the Minesweeper puzzle
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 10: Double Neighbors)
Previous Minesweeper puzzles
Based off of Day 10 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptaveegesimal.com
Difficulty (approximate): ★★★★☆
Contains: Single mines (1 mine), Anti-mines (-1 mines), ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 9: Complex mines)
Contains: Complex mines ($i$ mines, where $i:=\sqrt{-1}$), Anti mines (-1 mines)
Note: This is in conjunction with my Minesweeper puzzles
Sorry for not posting a Minesweeper puzzle yesterday. I will ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 8: Not a single mine)
Difficulty (approximate): ★★★☆☆
Contains: Double mine, triple mine
Now you might be wondering: If this puzzle contains not a single mine, then why does it contain mines? Well, that's because there ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 7: Double Mines)
Note: This uses anti, single, double, and triple mines
Yes, I realize that when I uploaded Day 6, I mentioned in the disclaimer that I planned for this to be released tomorrow, along with Day 8, ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 6: Anti-Mines - A better introduction)
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Minimal unsolvable minesweeper
I'm playing minesweeper on an infinite grid. I'm told upfront how many mines there are. What's the smallest possible $n$ for which there exists a configuration of $n$ mines such that, no matter where ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 5: Mod 4)
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 4: Looking Up)
We have a sort of weird condition for the tiles today. What is that, you ask? Well, we actually have 2:
The visible neighbors are different. Here is what they will be for today (the "x" ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 3: Zen Garden Intro)
This day is inspired by Day 20 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptavegeesimal.com
rot13(ab jnl! vzntrf jbex ba gnoyrf! :Q)
okay hopefully this is my easiest Minesweeper puzzle so far
Today we ...
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What is the meaning of a Cactus on Day 20 - Zen Garden of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar?
Note: this is not in conjunction with my Minesweeper puzzles
So I was playing Day 20 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptavegeesimal.com and was reading the instructions when I came across this:...
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Is there a strategy I could use to beat Day 30 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar?
Note: this is not in conjunction with my Minesweeper puzzles
So I was playing Day 30 on the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptaveegesimal.com when I noticed something weird:
Take a look at this ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 2: Diagonal Reverse Synesthesia)
Note: This is based off of Day 30 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptaveegesimal.com
So my first minesweeper puzzle did not go so well. I will try to do better today.
First off: This is a torus ...
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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (pt. 1: Rectangle)
Can you detect where the mines are in this 8x8 Minesweeper grid containing single, double, triple, and anti-mines?
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Good and bad numbers of remaining mines
You've been tasked with finishing solving this Minesweeper board:
"How many mines remain?", you ask. "I'm just choosing that now, actually. Tell you what: I was going to consider every ...
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25 distinct numbers in a 6x10 Minesweeper grid
You are making a new Minesweeper game. You can place 1, 2 or 3 mines in a cell. As usual the number in an empty cell is the number of mines surrounding it (in 8 directions). Can you place mines into a ...
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Is there way to solve this minesweeper without guessing?
I have arrived at this board and I'm kinda stuck. Is there any way to continue without guessing?
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What is the next move on this minesweeper board?
Here is the board
I found an online minesweeper solver which can deduce what the next move is, so I know what the next move is and that it is logically obtainable. But it doesn't offer much help in ...
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Am I able to mark mines with the bottom row of 3's?
Am I able to use the bottom row of 3's to know what some of the squares around it are?
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Is there anywhere else I can go without guessing randomly?
I’ve been looking at this board for a little while, and can’t seem to find any places to go where I don’t have to guess. Is guessing the only thing I can do here, or are there strategies that I’m ...
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How do I know where the bombs are?
I’m not sure how I would know, because in the top right corner, where there is a 2, 3, 2, going down, the bottom two needs to touch two mines and so does the top. But if I did the immediate right ...
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How could I have known not to go here?
How could I have known not to press where the red bomb is?
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6x6 Minesweeper grid with all threes
Can you place 16 mines on a 6x6 Minesweeper grid such that each number produced is a 3? Bonus: can you find multiple solutions that are not rotations or reflections of each other? Good luck!
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Quadruped Mosaic
This is a visual puzzle (known as "mosaic" or "fill-a-pix") with the same rules as MineSweeper:
This puzzle has exactly 100 x 100 cells.
The grid is to be filled with colored and ...
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Looking for a strategy for assembling a Minesweeper grid knowing only the tiles but not their positions
This puzzle consists of 36 tiles. Each tile has a digit and may or may not have a mine.
The goal is to assemble a 6×6 Minesweeper grid — in other words, each digit must equal the number of mines ...
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Stuck on a minesweeper supposedly solvable through pure deduction
I'm playing minesweeper on a website that says you can win using pure deduction without guessing, and I am currently stuck in the top left corner of the map. It's a 30x16 grid with 170 mines and the ...
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An altered MineSweeper
I've been searching for an old project I did in college about a computer program to create and solve a special variation of the popular game MineSweeper where, instead of always one, you could have ...
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All values in a 6x6 Super Minesweeper grid
In a Super™ Minesweeper grid each cell is either a mine or a value. A value in row $𝑟$ and column $𝑐$ represents the total number of mines located in row $𝑟$ or column $𝑐$
Can you fill a 6x6 Super™...
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Most 5s in a 5x5 Super Minesweeper grid
In a Super™ Minesweeper grid each cell is either a mine or a value. A value in row $𝑟$ and column $𝑐$ represents the total number of mines located in row $𝑟$ or column $𝑐$.
What is the most number ...
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All values in a 5x5 Super Minesweeper grid
In a Super™ Minesweeper grid each cell is either a mine or a value. A value in row $r$ and column $c$ represents the total number of mines located in row $r$ or column $c$.
Can you fill a 5x5 Super™ ...
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Wait, so how many mines are there? A tetromino minesweeper
Here's another tetromino minesweeper. I have bolded where the rules differ between this one and my first tetromino minesweeper
Rules:
A number indicates how many adjacent (including diagonally ...
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Tetromino minesweeper: the Amphitheater
This is a minesweeper puzzle with a tetromino twist. The goal is to place mines in the grid, following a few constraints.
Rules:
A number indicates how many adjacent (including diagonally adjacent) ...
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Minesweeper confusion
I'm getting a bit confused about something I keep encountering when playing minesweeper. I keep seeing the following formation:
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Can a mine in minesweeper touch only a single number tile
So i was playing some games and almost every game, i found a luck based situation, but are they actually luck based positions?
I have gone with this strategy, where when i am question marking tiles, i ...
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Reverse minesweeper?
The puzzle below, when filled out completely, is a valid minesweeper board.
Some of the mines and numbers have already been filled in.
Can you fill in what is missing and use the solved grid to find ...
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Mosaic by Albrecht Dürer
This is a visual puzzle (known as "mosaic" or "fill-a-pix") with the same rules as MineSweeper:
The grid is to be filled with colored and white tessera. Choose whatever color you like for the colored ...
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Minesweeper puzzle - Too many twos
A Gobo is caught for leaving the school for the lnternet bar to play computer games without permission. He is asked to solve a problem.
Put 4 mines in a 3 by 5 minesweeper grid to fill ALL the other ...
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Maximal sum in 5x5 Minesweeper
How can you place 8 mines on a 5x5 Minesweeper grid such that the sum of the produced numbers is maximal? Are there multiple solutions?
Good luck with this!
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Thirteen Minesweeper mines that make seven 5s
Can you place thirteen mines on a Minesweeper grid such that they create seven 5s? The size of the grid can be arbitrary. The mines may create numbers other than 5s, but those are irrelevant.
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Twelve Minesweeper mines that make twelve 4s
Can you place twelve mines on a Minesweeper grid such that they create twelve 4s? The size of the grid can be arbitrary. The mines may create numbers other than 4s, but those are irrelevant.
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All numbers twice in a 7x7 Minesweeper grid
Can you place mines on a 7x7 Minesweeper grid such that each number from 0 to 8 appears exactly twice?
A similar question about a 5x5 grid:
All numbers in a 5x5 Minesweeper grid
Good luck!
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All numbers in a 5x5 Minesweeper grid
Can you place mines on a 5x5 Minesweeper grid such that each number from 0 to 8 appears exactly once?
Good luck!
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Minesweeper challenge #5
Coming back to another Minesweeper challenge...
I've run into another "unsolvable corner" (corner of a puzzle where there isn't enough information to be 100% certain that any particular square that ...
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Minesweeper challenge #4
While solving another Minesweeper puzzle, I ran into yet another unsolvable corner.
Well, actually, this time I have two unsolvable corners in the same puzzle.
Here's the bottom left corner:
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Minesweeper challenge #3
I seem to have run into yet another "unsolvable corner" while playing Minesweeper.
The following segment is taken from the bottom right corner of the puzzle. There are 5 mines remaining, and all ...
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Minesweeper challenge #2
Again, I seem to have run into another situation where there doesn't seem to be a definitive set of squares to tap to solve a Minesweeper puzzle.
What squares should I tap to maximize my chances of ...
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Is there a definite answer to this Minesweeper puzzle? If not, which square has the best chance of being safe?
I was working on solving an Expert puzzle in Minesweeper, but came across a hurdle in this corner (the top left).
Is there a definitive solution to the problem? If so, what is it? If not, which ...
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Variant to Minesweeper
The following game is a variant of minesweeper:
There is a 7 by 7 grid of squares. Each square either has a skull or a number indicating the number of squares containing skulls surrounding that ...
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Highest point in the minesweeper
As most of you know minesweeper is a logic game where mines are hidden in a grid of squares. The object is to open all safe squares in the quickest time possible. Each number tells you how many mines ...
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