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Minesweeper Applet

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Minesweeper Basics

Minesweeper is a game based on the idea that there are mines on the board that you want to avoid. To help you avoid mines, any square that is not a mine has a number that indicates how many mines that square touches. If the square is blank, none of its surrounding squares is a mine. Sometimes you can logically determine where mines will be, and when you do it can be helpful to place a flag at that location. You place flags using a right-click over the square you think is a mine. You can always right-click again to either make a question mark if you are unsure of what is in the square, or right-click again so that there are no marking's on the square.

As a quick review, if a square is a number then it indicates how many mines it touches. The picture on the right shows one square with a checkmark on it. The checkmark is a flag indicating the square is a mine. We know that square must be a mine since there is a number 1 in the top left corner. That number 1 must touch, as it indicates by its number, one mine. Since that square touches only one covered square (blue square) then that square must be a mine, and so we should flag it with the checkmark which has conveniently already been done. Now we can deduce that the square to the immediate right of the flag is not a mine. We know this since the square to the right of the square in the top left corner is also a number one (its the square with two arrows coming out of it). The red arrow pointing down from that square shows that it is touching one mine. Since it can touch only one mine, then all other covered surrounding squares must not be mines. There is only one other covered square and it has a green arrow pointing to the square with a white X in it. So, we have concluded that the square with the white X must not be a mine.
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Quality of this version of Minesweeper

This minesweeper was many noteable features. Some of these features are not found in many other versions.
Minesweeper Features:

  • Options to play Beginner, Intermediate, Expert, and Custom Levels
  • Ability to flag squares
  • Tracks top ten High Scores in all difficulty levels (Custom excluded)
  • Ability to clear large areas by holding and releasing both mouse buttons
  • Sound Options
  • Its free to play!