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Minesweeper

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Computer logic game, popularized by its distribution with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Played on a grid of hidden cells, each of which may or may not contain a mine (unknown to the player). Clicking on an empty cell reveals the number of immediately adjacent mines, and clicking on a mine loses the game. The object is to determine the locations of all mines without ever clicking on a ... [MORE]

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1. #1 MineSweeper - 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.
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2. Dynamite Minesweeper (Dynamine) - A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.
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3. Hex Minesweeper - Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.
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4. Hexatron - Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.
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5. Lady Di's mines - Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.
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6. Mines-Perfect - 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.
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7. MineSweeper3D - Windows implementation of minesweeper on the surface of a 3D polyhedron, with challenging new tilings, and many boards to choose from. World records maintained online using encrypted submission. Built-in auto-solver. Demo version available.
8. NodeWorks Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.
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9. Planet Minesweeper - Contains advice, cheats, rankings, downloads, and a forum. [English and French.]
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10. Programmer's Minesweeper - Java applet for testing computer strategies for playing minesweeper.
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11. The Authoritative Minesweeper - World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.
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12. The Minesweeper Handbook - This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.
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13. Truffle-Swine Keeper - A minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.
14. Bomb Hunter - Commercial mobile-phone version of Minesweeper with new tools including probes and a radar.
15. Crazy Minesweeper - Windows shareware implementation of Minesweeper and a new variation in which new types of mines contribute 2 or 3 to the number seen in adjacent squares.
16. Minesweeper for Atari VCS 2600 - Binary and source to a port of the Minesweeper game for the Atari VCS 2600.
17. Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Page - Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.

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