I never bothered learning how to play Minesweeper. I remember seeing it in Windows 3.1 but I thought it was similar to Battleships and frankly, it looked basic and boring. Basic it may look but today I accidentally learned how to play it. I hope these instructions don’t knock something important out of my brain!
The number indicates how many bombs are within 1 square of the number. A 3 indicates that 3 of the 8 squares directly surrounding it are bombs. Clicking a space with no bombs, which also has no bombs around it, is like revealing a 0. When this happens, the game automatically reveals all spaces surrounding the 0. If those spaces are also zeroes, it does this again. If it reveals a number, then it can go no further in that direction. That’s why clicking some spaces reveals large sections of the board with numbers at the borders of the newly empty section.
Edit: Forgot to mention that when you determine which squares are definitely bombs, right click to flag them
If you click both mouse buttons on one square, it will clear all squares around it, except for ones marked as bombs.
I still can’t beat 8 seconds on the smallest level.
8 seconds? Impressive! I doubt I’ll ever play it enough to beat that time!
Part of it was luck in having a board that cleared out most of the blocks. 😀
TYL how to play minesweeper? Are you kidding? You seem like a hardcore retro gamer; I remember playing hours of minesweeper in class in the early 90ies … those were the days.
I once worked with a guy who played it at a scary speed. Like a robot. I guess he had a lot of time to practice on it when we were employed pre IT crash with no work to do…