Category - Minesweeper

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Video Games/Puzzle/Minesweeper

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• #1 MineSweeper   [rate] [review]
  Java implementation with three levels of play, and an online hall of fame, which requires two games with a low time to emphasize skill over luck.

• Bombs Away!   [rate] [review]
  Small variations on minesweeper to make the game more friendly. Free DOS game.

• Dynamite Minesweeper (Dynamine)   [rate] [review]
  A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.

• Hex Minesweeper   [rate] [review]
  Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.

• Hexatron   [rate] [review]
  Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.

• Lady Di's mines   [rate] [review]
  Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.

• Mines-Perfect   [rate] [review]
  An improved minesweeper-clone that generates guaranteed-to-be-solvable puzzles (never guess anymore) and has a Murphy's law option (guessing causes failure), more boards, sound, load, save, undo.

• Minesweeper World   [rate] [review]
  Cheats and tweaks for the Windows Minesweeper implementation, e.g., registry editing and optimization.

• Programmer's Minesweeper   [rate] [review]
  Java applet for testing computer strategies for playing minesweeper.

• Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Page   [rate] [review]
  Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.

• The Authoritative Minesweeper   [rate] [review]
  World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.

• The Minesweeper Handbook   [rate] [review]
  This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.

• The Minesweeper Page   [rate] [review]
  Comprehensive tutorial on human strategies, both deductive and probabilistic.

• Truffle-Swine Keeper   [rate] [review]
  A minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.

• Wikipedia: Minesweeper   [rate] [review]
  Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.

• Writings on Minesweeper   [rate] [review]
  Contains various articles on Microsoft's Minesweeper including randomness, board cycles, first click, and bugs. Extensive experimentation.