Minesweeper talk

[Kyriakos]

Seriously?...

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There was nothing to calculate here, just luck. And of course with 50% chance, I chose the mine

Note: don't take it with me that the thread title is brain-damaged (get it, swept mind /beavislaugh), it wasn't mine.

 

[tjs282]

There was nothing to calculate here, just luck. And of course with 50% chance, I chose the mine

This is pretty much why I stopped playing Minesweeper on Expert*. Almost nothing more frustrating than having a new Best Time** ruined on that last click

*Well, that, and because we got a new laptop which didn't have it pre-installed, and my old one later bricked itself from lack of use
**Best for me, anyway! I'm sure it was still about twice as long as a real Expert would achieve

 

[Birdjaguar]

This is pretty much why I stopped playing Minesweeper on Expert*. Almost nothing more frustrating than having a new Best Time** ruined on that last click

*Well, that, and because we got a new laptop which didn't have it pre-installed, and my old one later bricked itself from lack of use
**Best for me, anyway! I'm sure it was still about twice as long as a real Expert would achieve

It is always the "last click" that ruins every game....

 

[Samson]

It is always the "last click" that ruins every game....

In the same way that things are always in the last place you look.

 

[Kyriakos]

This is pretty much why I stopped playing Minesweeper on Expert*. Almost nothing more frustrating than having a new Best Time** ruined on that last click

*Well, that, and because we got a new laptop which didn't have it pre-installed, and my old one later bricked itself from lack of use
**Best for me, anyway! I'm sure it was still about twice as long as a real Expert would achieve

There is a "no guess" mode, which I am now trying. Eg this is the "Evil" level of that:

I meant to ask @Samson if the coding to disallow ambiguity would really be that hard, and apparently (?) it is not.

 

[Samson]

I meant to ask @Samson if the coding to disallow ambiguity would really be that hard, and apparently (?) it is not.

I know nothing about the algorithm, but it cannot be really hard. You could always just check for ambiguity with each click and change the result if it is detected.

 

[Kyriakos]

I know nothing about the algorithm, but it cannot be really hard. You could always just check for ambiguity with each click and change the result if it is detected.

Which makes it sadistic that the primary version of MS can have ambiguity.

 

[tjs282]

It is always the "last click" that ruins every game....

In the same way that things are always in the last place you look.

Well, yes, true. But you know that I meant "clicking the wrong one of the last 2 tiles"... Right?

 

[Kyriakos]

Τβφ, if you have a 50% chance, it's perfectly expected to lose.
For the complimentary reason, in MS if stuck you might as well click on a random square away from the action, since a good majority of the board is without mines. It's nice that the random square, in theory, might had been an ambiguous one

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Seriously?...

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There was nothing to calculate here, just luck. And of course with 50% chance, I chose the mine

Why are there those 4s on the right edge that are touching only 2 mines?

 

[tjs282]

Why are there those 4s on the right edge that are touching only 2 mines?

The screenshot is cut off partway across the board.

 

[Kyriakos]

Why are there those 4s on the right edge that are touching only 2 mines?

It's cropped to focus on that one ambiguous part of the map.

 

[Citron]

The link you sent doesn’t work for me