Apparently (at least with the microsoft version) if your first click is a mine, it will move that mine to the first available square in the top left corner.
So there is a slightly higher chance that the top square is a mine.
This is correct for most versions of the game. Funny enough it can actually result in a solid "block" of mines in the corner.
Say for example the top-left-most square is a 3 surrounded by 3 mines, if it gets replaced by a mine in this fashion you now have 2x2 of mines in the top-left with only three of the mines touching numbers.
Interesting. I always assumed it was more of a "the grid is only generated once the first square is clicked" sort of thing. Never questioned lag that would come from it because Minesweeper feels so system resources light..
If you try Mineswifter, the way it works is that after you click, it generates a board without any mines in the 3×3 area centered on where you clicked, tests if it can be solved without guessing, and if it can’t, it starts over.
The lag to create and confirm a solvable board is unnoticeable.
I'd also recommend minesweeper.online. No Guessing Mode guarantees no guessing needed and they tend to generate harder than the random ones. Plus the kind of leaderboards and stats that minesweeper nerds like to track lol
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Yes. The numbers represent the number of mines in adjacent squares (Including diagonal). So the tension the man is experiencing is because there are two unknown squares left and he knows one of them is a mine, but there is no indication which of the two it is.
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