I used to play minesweeper at work a lot before a co-worker told me that sometimes they could hear my fast clicking... so I bought a mouse that clicked very quietly.
Hisari, thank you so much for that cursor. It's great.
Also, unless you people are trolling, here is a quick crash-course on Minesweeper.
If you click a field, usually a number appears. The number indicates the ammount of mines that are surrounding it (note that a field can be surrounded by nine fields, including the diagonally touching fields).
Your task is to figure out where those mines are. If you click more fields, you will eventually figure it out.
If you're uncertain whether there is a mine or not but you think there is a high chance of it, right-click the field to add a flag and come back to it later. For each flag you use, the number on the top goes down (as the original number stands for the ammount of mines on the game-field). That helps you keeping track of the mines, although you can add as many flags as you wish.
Also, sometimes you click a field and a bunch of others will just open as well. That means that there are no mines in these fields (so there are no 0-fields (zero-fields) either.
Two good things that you can and should always do: - Start in the corners. It usually reveals a lot of fields. - Fields that are standing alone or are touching only three, two or one fields with numbers are always mines. I can't think of exceptions but there might be some.
Man, I think I just did something good for all of mankind. So bump.
My problem is that one of my first 4 clicks is ALWAYS a mine. To test (as I haven't played in years) I made a custom 50x50 field with 10 mines. I played 5 games. In 3 of those 5 games the mine was the first one I clicked. The other two took 2 and 4 clicks respectively. This is of course picking as far away from each other as possible.
I'm not normally unlucky, but I do have infamously bad luck with computer-related chance.
Actually, I just tried a few more 50x50/10 games and managed to win a few. But it's still some pretty bad luck.
There is a genuine thrill when you have all the board cleared except 4 spaces, and you know 3 of them are mines, but there is no logical way to predict which!
You must defy fate and thrust your mouseclick forth with all your might! Only then can you become a true Minesweeper!
Actually, there's more than one version of the program floating around, even if we're just talking about the one that comes default with Windows. Some will let you hit a mine on the first click, others retcon things if that happens.
