Really? It's pretty easy. The field she's looking at in the top panel has a 50% chance of having a mine. The field below it is safe, and clicking that would solve the former field. The field in the second panel is safe.
Those that want to know how, an example of one possible first step: The "2" five panels from the right and two down signals only one of the four remaining unflagged panels it is touching is a bomb. The "2" above it narrows it down to the two remaining unflagged panels it is touching. That means the panels that are five and six from the right and three down are not bombs. Clicking those should leave obvious bombs (EX: The "5" would only be touching five panels) and practically make the game solve itself.
Dr_Fine_Rolo said: The one she clicked couldn't have been a mine... If it were, the second two from the top on the right hand side would have to be a three.
Yep, unless she moved the mouse on accident as she was clicking and misclicked (a common accident on my behalf)
unicode said: It doesn't matter. There is only one solution regardless of what's outside.
Incorrect. If the border of the image and the game are not the same, the row above could potentially have a mine to the upper left of the center 2, making this change (where O is clear and X is a mine)
\ \ \ \----->O X O O X X 2 1---->X O 2 1 3 O 2 X---->3 O 2 X 3 O O 2---->3 X O 2 5 X X 3---->5 O X 3 X X O X--->X X O X X 3 3 X---->X 3 3 X
Most important is the 4th row in the above diagram, where the 2nd item changes from an O to an X, allowing for this comic to not be in error.
ironically, an 8 would be really easy. It would just be really weird to actually get considering that you'd have to be randomly picking tiles for no adequately explained reason.
i actually learned how to play Minesweeper for the first time in between programming exercises in college... someone sitting behind me called me a tryhard for looking up basic strategies.
