Introduction
Depending on how old you are, you may or may not remember the game Minesweeper. It was a simple enough game: it would look like grids, and you had to reveal every square that didn’t have a mine without hitting any of the mines. If you hit all the mines, then you lost! If you hit too many squares with mines, then your game would be over too. And if this was too confusing, then don’t worry – I’ll explain more below.
Minesweeper should be your last priority.
The point of Minesweeper is to teach you how to be smart and strategic. It’s not a game of luck, it’s a game of patience and persistence, and it’s up to you to win or lose. If you want to win, then be determined! Be patient! Be focused! Don’t give up on yourself too easily! Just because the odds are against you doesn’t mean that they’re impossible… all it means is that there are obstacles in your way, so look for ways around them instead if jumping right into them head first like an idiot who has no sense at all when looking at any given situation with some degree of self-awareness would do if they were being rational instead just letting their emotions rule over everything else which causes bad decisions being made which aren’t necessarily good ones either but may end up working out better than expected anyway sometimes due to sheer dumb luck despite not being planned beforehand anyway which makes those things seem like “accidents” but really aren’t accidents because no one can predict what will happen next nor should anyone ever try doing so either since trying too hard leads only makes things worse in most cases except maybe once every few hundred years where there might be something lucky happening at some point during those few hundred years but it probably won’t happen again soon enough so don’t even think about getting excited about such possibilities unless there’s proof that something indeed did happen recently prior (like how I got home safely late last night after driving down south)
A lot of random clicking is really the only way to get into it.
The game does not tell you what’s safe and what isn’t. It doesn’t give you any information to help you figure out where the mines might be, so unless your intuition is really good, it will take some time for you to get into the game. You can’t rely on the game’s help or hints; instead, you have to use your own intuition when playing this game.
As soon as a mine is revealed—whether by clicking on it or by clearing an area with no more mines—then that spot becomes safe and can be marked off as such in order to save time later on. If there are multiple places adjacent to each other that are safe then they should all be marked off at once since they’re basically the same thing anyway (allowing only one click per turn).
You can’t rely on assistance from the game itself.
The first thing to know about Minesweeper is that the game only tells you what you can see. The game won’t tell you if there are mines on either side of a square, nor will it tell you whether or not there is a mine directly beneath your cursor. This is why it’s so important to play slowly, and why players should never click on squares until they have considered all of their options very carefully.
Another important thing to remember about Minesweeper is that if a square contains a mine, it will explode as soon as any part of your mouse falls into the square (unless it’s covered by another object).
There’s a real sense of accomplishment when you complete a level.
There’s a real sense of accomplishment when you complete a level in minesweeper. You feel like you have achieved something, learned something and accomplished something.
In addition to this, it can also be fun to play with your friends and see who can finish their game first.
It’s a bit like life in that way.
In the same way that Minesweeper is a metaphor for life, it’s also a metaphor for the challenges of life. It’s unpredictable and can be random as well. In fact, you could compare it to any game where you have to face tough challenges with limited information and resources, such as Tetris or Flappy Bird.
What I mean by this? Well, let’s take Tetris as an example: You’re given an empty board full of holes—that is, nothing but blank space—and your goal is to fill in each hole with blocks so that they fit perfectly together (a process known as “tetrominoes”). Each time you place a tetromino on top of another one (whether horizontally or vertically), they connect perfectly without leaving any gaps between them; if they don’t fit together smoothly like puzzle pieces though…well then you’ve got some troubles on your hands!
It’s hard enough just trying to complete one level in Tetris without having other things get in the way too (like having only one hand free at any given moment). But what about playing against someone else? Now imagine how much harder it would be if there were two people instead! That’s why most people prefer playing single-player mode because multiplayertetristingcanbeverystressful(andintenselycompetitive)attimes
With Minesweeper, you have to go with your gut feeling and trust yourself.
The game of Minesweeper is often called a game of instinct, because you have to trust yourself in order to get through it successfully. If you’re playing the game, you have to trust your instincts when it comes to deciding if a square has mines or not–and even if there are no mines, there could be an escape route underneath it! The best way for me to explain this is by using an example: say I’m playing minesweeper on my phone (which I do all the time). My phone tells me that there’s only one mine remaining, so I decide that the square with three dots must not contain any mines at all. But then I randomly press down on my screen and uncover another dot beneath that square! You can see how this might make someone feel pretty silly–but at least now they know better than ever before…
Conclusion
The purpose of Minesweeper is to uncover all the squares that do not contain mines without being “blown up” by clicking on a square with a mine underneath.
