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How to Play Minesweeper? Everything you want to know about the game

by Uneeb Khan
Minesweeper video game published by Microsoft in 1990 is one of the most famous video games in the history of games and entertainment.

Minesweeper video game published by Microsoft in 1990 is one of the most famous video games in the history of games and entertainment. Created by Curt Johnson, Minesweeper is a type of video game in which gamers should uncover all square tiles in a grid where mines are hidden in unknown places. The users should uncover each tile on the grid without activating any bomb. Oberon Media later added more colour patterns into the gaming grid and collaboration between Arkadium and Microsoft Casual Games gave more options to the players.

The game was first released by Microsoft officially in 1990 as part of Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1. When Windows 3.1 was introduced in the early 1990s, the company decided to add Minesweeper as a standard installation in the operating system. Since then, the video game has appeared in almost all windows formats in offline or online mode.

How to Play Minesweeper?

Once you open the video game on your device from an installed app or with an internet browser, you will have the option to choose from three levels of difficulty, “beginner”, “intermediate”, and “expert”. As you choose higher levels of difficulty, the number of tiles on your grid and the number of mines hidden underneath those tiles increase.

Once the game starts you should use both logic and some guessing in order to uncover tiles without mines. If you somehow select tiles with any mines underneath them, all the mines will explode and the game would be over. When you select a tile without a mine below it, that square tile will show a number from 1 to 8, with each number being the number of mines adjacent to the uncovered square.

You can play minesweeper using some basic maths as each number will help you in avoiding tiles with mines underneath them. In order to play minesweeper, the user should keep a moderate level of concentration to avoid the bombs. The majority of the times, there is a 50-50 chance the tile will or will not have mines under it.

Players also have the option to flag tiles that they think have mine below them. This will help the players in avoiding such tiles while playing the video game. If the player is unsure about the existence of a mine under a tile, he or she can tag the tile with a question mark (?). The flags and question marks are most useful for players when the number of tiles in the grid is higher as there are more chances of mines below the tiles.

Once you uncover all the tiles without triggering any mines, the game is over, and you have won the contest. If you missed to flag any tiles with mines under them, the computer will automatically flag those tiles. However, in the event that a game is lost, and the player had mistakenly flagged a safe square, that square will either appear with a red X, or else a red X covering the mine (both denoting the square as safe).

Evolution of Minesweeper

Over the years since the early 1990s, Minesweeper witnessed changes in name, updates in the gaming format and changes in the colour pattern. In earlier days, players were able to use a cheat code that enabled them to take a sneak peek below the tiles to understand which ones had mines and while tiles were free from mines. This advantage was later gone due to updates in the game and the software.

The latest version of the video game was developed by Arkadium and Microsoft Casual Games in 2012 and is currently available on the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. The latest version has six game modes such as Easy (9×9), Medium (16×16), Expert (30×16), Custom, Adventure, and Daily Challenges. Read the latest updates at Tech Story website.
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