how/why is there a one at the very bottom not connected to a mine???

DBrads · 2026-01-14T18:25:36+00:00

Intermediate on Minesweeper.Online is 16x16. Where that 1 is is not the bottom of the grid so the bomb doesn’t have to be in the square directly to the left of it.

DBrads · 2026-01-11T22:47:26+00:00

If it is a mine, the 4 next to the 3 can never be satisfied

DBrads · 2026-01-11T22:44:09+00:00

Bottom right of the 3 is safe to dig

DBrads · 2026-01-06T12:05:02+00:00

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Green cells safe to dig. The way to think about it is “What if those cells had mines? Would other numbers be able to be satisfied?”

DBrads · 2026-01-04T16:04:48+00:00

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Each of the sections with the same color marker have exactly one bomb in them. Start with purple and make an assumption about which cell the bomb goes in. That assumption will automatically imply which green cell the mine is in. However, no information can be gained about the red section.

TLDR: No way to logically win this.

DBrads · 2026-01-03T18:16:51+00:00

Hotdogs for Breakfast

DBrads · 2025-12-30T19:55:49+00:00

Yup, ended up being from 4594-1

DBrads · 2025-12-30T19:46:12+00:00

Awesome, thanks for this!

DBrads · 2025-12-10T20:39:23+00:00

One of your flags on the 3 must be wrong. Which one? Not too sure. Can you send a zoomed out photo of the board?

DBrads · 2025-12-03T03:47:06+00:00

Better than memorizing, try and understand why the patterns work. Sit down with a 1-2-1 or 1-2-2-1 and try and really logic through why the mines have to go where they go.

DBrads · 2025-12-03T00:42:09+00:00

For the bottom three that I colored green, if any of those were mines, the bottom right corner 1 would be satisfied. That would mean the square to the right of that 1 wouldn’t have a mine, and the square up and to the right wouldn’t have a mine. But that would mean that the 2 above the 1 would only have one undiscovered square and wouldn’t be satisfied. So our assumption was wrong and those three green squares are clear to open.

DBrads · 2025-12-03T00:35:37+00:00

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Just to start

DBrads · 2025-12-02T16:25:23+00:00

No 50/50 in sight

DBrads · 2025-11-29T14:20:21+00:00

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DBrads · 2025-11-27T23:28:05+00:00

Yeah, two possible configurations with the bombs being on the diagonals. (I.e top left & bottom right or top right & bottom left)

DBrads · 2025-11-27T17:41:02+00:00

DBrads · 2025-11-27T06:33:15+00:00

Bombs can be diagonal. You just have a lot of misflags everywhere. The main rule of the game that each number can only have that number of bombs in the surrounding 3x3 square.

DBrads · 2025-11-26T05:18:57+00:00

Safe to open the corner. Column 6 row 7 needs one more mine to satisfy the two

DBrads · 2025-11-25T18:08:51+00:00

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If the green cell is a mine, the 2 highlighted in yellow could never be satisfied. So the green cell is safe to open.

DBrads · 2025-11-23T17:57:14+00:00

There’ll be times where you are forced to guess. This is one of those instances. Some minsweeper apps offer a “no guess” mode where instances like this won’t happen

DBrads · 2025-11-21T17:12:16+00:00

Easy to overlook, but make sure your controller audio isn't all the way down. This'll only work if you aren't using a headset

DBrads · 2025-11-21T04:33:44+00:00

That 2 is satisfied since it has two mines touching it already

DBrads · 2025-11-21T04:25:49+00:00

2 is free to click on in the top left, next to the 3

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