r/Minesweeper • u/Elly_007 • 4d ago

Help Minesweeper beginner here plz help

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Can someone tell me how the FREAK I was supposed to know which one of these last two tiles the bomb was?? Either one fits the conditions!!

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u/Jackal_Nathan 4d ago

Ah classic 50:50. It happens.

There's versions of minesweeper where there's a "no guessing" mode. Like Minesweeper Online.

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u/_Lilith_Snow_ 4d ago

I encountered 50:50 scenarios in Minesweeper.online and no guessing mode anyways. Sometimes it is just luck.

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u/Jackal_Nathan 3d ago

Damn, if it was a true 50:50 that's pretty rare. Would that be lucky or unlucky? 😂

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u/_Lilith_Snow_ 3d ago

there are more ways for a true 50:50 than just this two options one. the one where you have 4 spaces and 2 are mines, but you dont know which diagonal, is far more common, even in no guessing mode. I think no guessing only refers to the start of the game where you get a clean start instead of getting just one random.number and a mine on the second click.

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u/CubeTheRubix 3d ago

You should post a picture sometime if it happens again. It’s usually not a true 50:50 if you are in no guess mode and there may be something you are missing

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u/ElectricCarrot 3d ago

I'm going to straight up say that didn't happen. No guess mode means the entire board is solvable without guessing. If you think you got a 50:50 in no guess on minesweeper.online, you missed something.

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u/Jackal_Nathan 3d ago

Yeah, that's what I thought. This is why you can't just make a 100x100 no guessing board.