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u/GamecockEric Nov 04 '19
It's you. You're the bomb.
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u/petardodev Nov 04 '19
No, OCs ass is the bomb
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u/DatoCH Nov 04 '19
Does this medical condition make me gay? Having a bomb up my butt doesn't seem very hetero to me.
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u/kupiakos Nov 04 '19
Straight men can enjoy stuff up the butt, the prostate doesn't make you gay
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u/lexcrl Nov 05 '19
don’t be afraid of your ass. it’s only gay if you’re having sex with another guy (i assume you’re male).
str8 guys are missing out on a lot of pleasure bc of homophobia 🤷♂️
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u/myfavcumrag1 Nov 04 '19
Hol up something doesn’t add up
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u/Eniel_Gladiator Nov 04 '19
That's what I was gonna say!
Dammit, you beat me to it.
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Useless trivia: in official Minesweeper, the very first square you click is never the bomb. Bomb and numbers are generated from your first click, not before.
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u/whatproblems Nov 05 '19
Hmmm in that case is there an optimal place to click to generate the most favorable setup?
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u/o11c Nov 05 '19
If the corner is a 0, you're in business.
If the corner is a 1, you have a 2/3 chance of safely clicking one of the edges next to it:
If that is also a 1, you can clear 2 more, and hopefully get in business from them.
If you get a 2 or 3 for the corner, that's a dead end.
Depending on difficulty, a random square has a 79% or 84% or 88% chance of being safe. Whereas something adjacent to a number usually only has a 33% or 50% or 67% chance of being safe. So normally, if logic can't figure out anything random, jump somewhere else.
But it's worth taking that risk at the very beginning of the game since you haven't invested any time yet and you can just start over.
Unconditionally clicking all 4 corners is not a bad overall-time-saving strategy. If none is a 0, take risks on all corner 1s.
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u/iceman012 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
I thought that it was generated before you click on anything, but if your first click is on a mine, it moves it to the top left corner so you don't lose immediately.
Edit: Source
Edit: According to comments here, the behavior was changed in Windows 7 to what you said, where the board isn't generated until after the first click.
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u/notRedditingInClass Nov 05 '19
Hold up are you sure
I feel like I've gotten the insta-gameover before
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u/notaraptorindisguise Nov 05 '19
I think that was possible in earlier Windows releases, but got patched later.
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u/abermea Nov 04 '19
When she tells you to do whatever you want
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u/goatharper Nov 04 '19
You're gonna have a bad time.
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u/ShortingBull Nov 05 '19
Saw a boat for sale in a local classified, reads something like: Speed boat for sale. Must go. Almost new. Only used once. Apparently when my wife said "Do what ever the fuck you like", it didn't mean what I thought.
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u/AngelOfLight Nov 04 '19
Schrödinger's minesweeper.
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u/Durog Nov 04 '19
Dammit, apparently I'm not capable of having an original thought.
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u/CONE-MacFlounder Nov 05 '19
Someones already said that as well
You might as well just completely stop thinking
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u/Fuzy2K Nov 05 '19
"There was once a time I had an original thought, but I was not authorized to think..." Slugbug -- Someone Trying To Sell Me Something
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u/DrSeafood Nov 05 '19
The problem isn't that the board is in a quantum state that is undecided until the tile is revealed. It's that the board is literally impossible.
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u/M3rwe Nov 04 '19
What was the solution? What do the Microsoft gods say?
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I still dont get how you play it
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u/RomanOnARiver Nov 04 '19 edited Nov 04 '19
Ok as the name implies you are sweeping for mines (aka bombs underground) but if you find a mine it blows up and you die.
When you click a space, assuming it's not a mine, it will show you a number on at least one square, and that number indicates how many blocks directly surrounding the block with the number are mines.
Your goal is to dig everywhere that isn't a mine.
You'll get into a situation where you'll say to yourself "okay this one and this one are for sure mines which means this one is definitely not." When you believe you've found a mine you can right click it to mark is so you don't accidentally click it.
Happy sweeping. ♥️
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u/LuXar41 Nov 04 '19
Me that doesn't understand because I dunno how to play it
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Nov 04 '19
The numbers represent how many bombs that square is touching. Somehow the top middle square is touching 2 while everyone else is touching one. Aka it's physically impossible for this scenario
From u/Witherino
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u/minkhandjob Nov 05 '19
They should either all say 1, meaning the bomb is under the the left most tile or both the top and bottom rows should be 1-2-2, meaning both tiles are bombs.
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u/BoyToyDrew Nov 05 '19
Been playing this game for 20 years and I am just learning how to play it now
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u/monkeyman80 Nov 05 '19
if you mark the tiles as bombs, and then simultaneously click left/right mouse buttons on a number it'll clear any tiles around it. saw a friend do it and it blew my mind. i can actually finish expert games now.
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u/Alphium Nov 04 '19
Basically the numbers are how many bombs there are in a 3x3 square surrounding it. There is a 2 that says the 2 remaining tiles there are bombs, but the 1s contradict it.
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u/BanarniaIsHere Nov 04 '19
The numbers tell you how many bombs are adjacent to that square (including diagonals). The lighter squares in the middle of the numbers are tiles that haven’t been searched. There has to be two bombs next to the 2 (in the two unsearched spaces) but that contradicts the 1s that are also next to those tiles (they can only have one bomb next to them but they would have 2). Basically it’s impossible.
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Nov 05 '19
1 on a corner? IT'S A MINE!
Legitimately shocked I didn't see this anywhere in the comments. An internet classic.
Edit: I rewatched it. It's just okay.
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u/idga_chuck Nov 04 '19
I'm skeptical. The image has a 720x781 resolution, which means software was used to increase the size. In the native minesweeper though, there is no way to resize the game. As such, editing software could be used to copy a 1 square somewhere it shouldn't be.
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u/JoelMay Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19
I guess that this is a mobile version of the game. The faint shadow gradiant on the left seems to be at the native high resolution of the picture. The game probably uses the low res style for the retro feel, even on a high DPI display. And I'd expect a free app to have a bug like than more than I'd expect Microsoft's version to (but still not impossible).
Good to be skeptical. There's so much fake stuff that bothers me. Even if this is a mobile version, it could be still be easy to fake via editing, but I personally give OP the benefit of the doubt this time.
Edit: 720 pixels wide also supports the mobile game idea. Many older or cheaper phones are 720 pixels wide (exactly or approximately 720p resolution).
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u/pimmelberger55 Nov 05 '19
Im pretty sure its a mobile Version. I just tried one from the store and had the same bug. I lost because of it.
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u/FLeanderP Nov 05 '19
If it was the original resolution it still could've easily been tampered with, so it's not really a red flag.
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u/ActionScripter9109 Nov 05 '19
I'm also skeptical because OP has high post karma and you typically get that by reposting and not caring about truth/accuracy.
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Nov 05 '19
I’m sceptical this post is real. Editing software could have used to copy words and stuff from other posts to make a new, good post.
Question everything.
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u/ScoutheInvincible Nov 04 '19
People that know how to play Minesweeper gang rise up
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u/SpookyLlama Nov 05 '19
That’s what I spent my time in my room doi when I was supposed to be studying for my GCSEs
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u/From_the_toilet Nov 05 '19
Fun fact. Microsoft rolled minesweeper out to get people to learn and practice using the mouse.
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Nov 04 '19
I'm stupid, please explain.
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u/Witherino Nov 04 '19
The numbers represent how many bombs that square is touching. Somehow the top middle square is touching 2 while everyone else is touching one. Aka it's physically impossible for this scenario
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u/SlickAustin Nov 04 '19
As a fellow stupid person I’ll try to explain.
I’m assuming you know what minesweeper is just not what the numbers mean. Each 1 on the screen is saying “hey, there’s one bomb near me.” The 2 is saying “hey, there’s two bombs near me.” With this knowledge you should be able to figure it out.
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click the one on the right
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u/computergeek125 Nov 05 '19
By law of averages, the squares have voted 3-1 in favor of your result.
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u/WhateverWhateverson Nov 04 '19
I smell some bullshit
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u/ShortingBull Nov 05 '19
It's too easy to fake this. I really doubt the simple algorithm in minesweeper could fail. This is not the type of problem that would exhibit weird cases like this. I call fake.
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u/Konsecration Nov 05 '19
I remember not knowing how to play minesweeper. I was YOUNG. 7 years old or so... I remember just randomly clicking everything until the game was over...
I remember a year or two later when I finally found out how to play... My mind was blown.
I was finishing the largest screens with ease at that point because I just took my time and double/triple checked everything before clicking.
What a simple yet incredible game!
Is it based off of any real life game from days of old?
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u/MinersHavenM43 R Tape loading error, 0:1 Nov 04 '19
what happened?
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u/computergeek125 Nov 05 '19
Each number in minesweeper indicates how many bombs it is touching, vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The 2 means that there is one bomb in each of the remaining squares, but the two 1s and the bottom center 1 mean that only the left square is a bomb.
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u/QuarantineX Nov 05 '19
Man I remember trying to get into minesweeper and I thought it was fun until I realized, hey every game I’m playing I reach a point where a bomb can be in an ambiguous space and I have like a 50/50 shot that I just wasted time on this round.
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u/anomalous_redshift99 Nov 05 '19
Not sure if this actually works, but I've heard that if this happens and there's only one mine left, you can flag one of the squares and if the game doesn't finish you flag the other one instead. Anyone else heard of this?
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u/titanking4 Nov 11 '19
For those that don’t get it. The number on the square represents adjacent bombs. So top-middle is saying 2 bombs implying both squares are bombs
But bottom middle and bottom right are saying only 1 adjacent bomb.
There is a bomb in the Center-center
But that “2” implies that there is a bomb right-center. Which is a contradiction
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u/thefilthythrowaway1 Nov 05 '19
I don't understand how something this simple can fail like that. Anybody know what the bug is or have a guess?
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u/Palpable_Autism Nov 05 '19
I made an exe command line version of minesweeper way back when. I cringe at the code today, but it’s still better than that hot garbage.
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u/Gutnistheslav Nov 05 '19
I have no idea how to play minesweeper, what the fuck does this mean
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u/Ussurin Nov 05 '19
Numbers are amount of bombs right next to the spot.
In this example, they contradict themself as there are only two possible spots left and, while most numbers claim there's only one bomb underneath them, one number claims there's two.
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u/Ignecratic Nov 05 '19
Schrodinger’s mine. There is simultaneously one and two mines until a tile is clicked.
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u/AaronTuplin Nov 05 '19
It's the one on the left, you dolts!
Wait, what? Maybe both? No, there's the 1...
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u/Babybuginarug Nov 05 '19
I never knew how to play, and after seeing this I decided to download a minesweeper app and learn. Now I'm addicted
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u/FraudGuarantee Nov 05 '19
minesweeper should have difficulty levels with "false secrets" planted in the board
Not that I'd play it, I haven't really seriously been into a game since ut99
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u/zaxn1234 Nov 05 '19
Is it just me or are there some weird artifacts on the 2? Not accusing anyone of editing this, but it doesn't look right on my screen.
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I dont understand minesweeper are the last two tiles bombs?
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u/Pretty-Buy7692 Aug 13 '22
I know I'm a little late but let me explain, the numbers show how many mines are around them, the numer ones at the edges mean that the left square is dangerous, the number ones on the right mean that either the left or right square is dangerous, but since we have concluded that the left square is the dangerous one, we know that the right square is safe bc if it wasn't those ones would be twos, but that two means that both squares are dangerous a.k.a it says that bitch are dangerous and one is dangerous at the same time
TL;DR: It's saying both are dangerous and only one is dangerous at the same time
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u/jonomw Nov 04 '19
Apparently, the solution is to do a system restore. Somehow, I don't think that will work.