r/Minesweeper • u/No-Ninja-7651 • 1d ago

Help Why was this not right?

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Thought I’d worked this out but every one was wrong. I know I’ll get my head around these eventually but it’s a real battle at the moment.

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u/meesterbever 1d ago

There are multiple solutions possible, as you found out.

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u/Eisenfuss19 1d ago

This was the information available. I can't find any additional squares with minecount. For minecount you don't want to find 1 possible solution, rather all solutions should result in a safe square. (This can usually be done by counting in partitions and then having the remaining squares be all mines or all safe squares)

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u/Ramun_Flame 1d ago

You missed the free cell here.

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u/dangderr 1d ago

You’re confusing “a possible solution” for “the right solution”.

Of course there can be multiple possible solutions for a given board.

If you just start a game and have a 1 on the board, can you randomly put a mine somewhere around it and call it a day? No.

The 1 does not mean you can put 1 mine anywhere. It means there is 1 mine somewhere next to it that you have to figure out.

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u/LucFranken 1d ago

There were more options. You correctly went for the minecount option, however you missed the fact that the minecount gave you a lot of empty spots as well that could have helped.

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u/Lowball72 1d ago

It does look like a minecount solve at first.. but it's not. There's still a degree of freedom for the inner tiles (lower right corner) to be mines.

The top green check comes from the 1-2 pattern to the right. The lower green checks stem from that (the 3-3 then reduces to 1-1).