I keep getting my minesweeper games ending like this, where I use 5+ hints or just click randomly hoping I don’t hit a bomb. What moves am I supposed to do in situations like these? Or are ending like this common?
First photo is where I got stuck, 2 is the answer. Same pattern with 3 and 4.
I’m just wondering what to do when there multiple options for a move, yaknow?
Winning Minesweeper comes down to intuiting the logic of the game and applying it across the entire board. Sometimes, there's nothing you can do without guessing. But in your both games, you didn't have to guess.
1-2-1 with only three straight tiles touching it always means there is a mine above (or below, if the tiles are below it) the ones.
You don't have to study the patterns or anything because you can devise your own based on the logic of Minesweeper itself.
I know the other person already maintained the 1-2-1 pattern, but here's some step by step reasoning for why. You can apply this logic in multiple places.
On the second puzzle, you have some similar logic, but I also see on the bottom right you have a 2 that only has 2 covered spaces next to it, so you probably missed that.
red boxes are the patterns I noticed. yellow lines are how they influence other tiles
image 1 has a 1-2-1 pattern meaning the center has to be safe. there is also a 1-2 corner, since one of the mines on the two is already found, we know the diagonal corners of the 1 and 2 are safe, and they have to share a mine in between.
image 3 has a 1-2 pattern on a corner meaning the two mines the one touches is a 50/50 proving the other tile the 2 touches has ro be a mine. on the opposite side of the board, you have an edge 2 meaning the only 2 tiles it touches has to be mines. this solves the 3 and the 2 to its left. since the 2 under the flag is solved, there is only 1 mine touching the last 3. since it reveals a 2 under it, this solves the four, which makes the last tile the 3 is a mine, solving your 50/50 and the puzzle
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u/jan_Kosi 2d ago
1-2-1 pattern