Pages

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  The Authoritative Minesweeper

  World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.

  http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/

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  Bomb Hunter

  Commercial mobile-phone version of Minesweeper with new tools including probes and a radar.

  http://www.airplayuk.com/games/bombhunter/

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  Crazy Minesweeper

  Windows shareware implementation of Minesweeper and a new variation in which new types of mines contribute 2 or 3 to the number seen in adjacent squares.

  http://www.astatix.com/crazyminesweeper.php

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  Dynamite Minesweeper (Dynamine)

  A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.

  http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~manning/dynamine.html

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  Hex Minesweeper

  Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.

  http://members.aol.com/hausebill/hexmines.html

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  Hexatron

  Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.

  http://www.hexatron.com/hex/

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  Lady Di's mines

  Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.

  http://www.minesweeper.org/

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  Mines-Perfect

  An improved minesweeper-clone that generates guaranteed-to-be-solvable puzzles (never guess anymore) and has a Murphy's law option (guessing causes failure), more boards, sound, load, save, undo.

  http://www.czeppi.de/english

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  #1 MineSweeper

  Java implementation with three levels of play, and an online hall of fame, which requires two games with a low time to emphasize skill over luck.

  http://www.mine-sweeper.com/

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  Minesweeper for Atari VCS 2600

  Binary and source to a port of the Minesweeper game for the Atari VCS 2600.

  http://soeren.informationstheater.de/atari/

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  The Minesweeper Handbook

  This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.

  http://www.minesweepers.org

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  MineSweeper3D

  Windows implementation of minesweeper on the surface of a 3D polyhedron, with challenging new tilings, and many boards to choose from. World records maintained online using encrypted submission. Built-in auto-solver. Demo version available.

  http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/

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  Planet Minesweeper

  Includes advice, cheats, rankings, downloads, and a forum. [English and French.]

  http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/

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  Programmer's Minesweeper

  Java applet for testing computer strategies for playing minesweeper.

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/pgms/

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  Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Page

  Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.

  http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/minesw.htm

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  Truffle-Swine Keeper

  A minesweeper clone that includes an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.

  http://freenet-homepage.de/hskopp/swinekeeper.html

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  Wikipedia

  Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_%28computer_game%29

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  Writings on Minesweeper

  Contains various articles on Microsoft's Minesweeper including randomness, board cycles, first click, and bugs. Includes experimentation.

  http://www.nuprograms.com/minesweeper/