Minesweeper Game

Minesweeper is a puzzle video game for one player. With the aid of hints regarding the number of nearby mines in each area, the goal of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden “mines” or bombs without detonating any of them. The game dates back to the 1960s and has been ported to a variety of modern computing systems. There are several variants and offshoots.

Minesweeper’s goal is to discover and label all of the mines concealed beneath the grey squares in the lowest amount of time possible. To do so, open the squares by clicking on them. One of the following will be present in each square:

1. It’s a mine, and if you click on it, the game will end.
2. A number that indicates how many of its neighboring squares contain mines.
3. Nothing. You know that none of the surrounding squares have mines in this scenario. Therefore, they will all be automatically unlocked.

Minesweeper Gameplay

In Minesweeper, you may essentially execute five different actions:

Open your first square. Simply left-click on a square to accomplish this.

Mark a mine on a square. Right-clicking on a square does this. There will be a little mining symbol there.

Use a question mark to denote a square. Right-click twice on a square, or right-click once on a square that has already been marked as a mine to do so. Question marks are handy for marking squares that you’re not sure are mines, but you want to avoid unintentionally opening.

Remove any blemishes. Right-click on the square once more. The following states are cycled through by right-clicking: Bomb, Question Mark, and Clear.

All remaining neighboring squares should be opened to a number square. If you have a square with the number 1 and have already marked one mine in one of the surrounding squares, you may left click on the 1 square, and all of the other squares will open. When trying to clear away squares fast, this can save a lot of time. If you press on a number when you haven’t marked all neighboring mines, for example, 3, and you’ve only marked one adjacent square. The squares will not open, preventing you from accidentally clicking on a number and blowing yourself up! To accomplish this action in the original Windows version of this game, you had to press both mouse buttons at the same time, but now we just use a regular left-click.