![]() The grid and spaces aren’t even Atari 2600 quality, and the smiley face is.just a smiley face. There aren’t any graphics to speak of either, really. That’s because there are no sounds at all. ”Minesweeper” is a cool title for a game. Seeing that nobody planned a funeral for his dead face, he just waits patiently for you to start a new game.Įh, forget about the smiley face and feel the need for greed instead! Do you play Minesweeper to save a life over and over again? No! You play it to get one of the high scores! When and if you clear a grid in record time, you'll get to type in your name on the beloved Best Times list that only has room for the fastest mine sweepers. If he's still breathing, he'll go back to smiling ( :-)), but if you uncover a mine, he'll frown and his eyes will go from being two circular dots to being two X's ( X-(). He doesn't know whether his ass is about to be grass or whether he'll be alive and kicking when you let go of your mouse button. While you're in the process of clicking, the yellow being has a surprised, scared look on his face ( :-O). Sure, you sweep mines, but the game has an underlying humanitarian plot by including a smiley face icon at the top that just sits there making faces at you the whole time. It’s really not difficult to learn how Minesweeper is played if you’ll just be patient and try to understand it. When you know without a doubt that a certain square is not a mine, left-click it to disclose its safe territory. A flag will be placed onto it so you won't accidentally left-click it and die a terrible death. This means that that one and only space is a mine! Since you know for sure that it's a mine, right-click that little devil. ![]() Let's say you see a space that has a 1 on it, and only one unopened square is touching it. When this happens, you're likely to see a few 1's lying around. The best way to succeed in Minesweeper is to click around until a nice, wide open space is revealed. Only one of those eight is safe to unearth. ![]() This means that seven of the eight squares that surround that number 7 are mines. A lucky, or rather unlucky number 7 shows its face. For instance, you decide to click a square that's in the middle of the grid. A number tells you exactly how many mines are in the adjacent squares that surround the one you just clicked. I didn't come here for a bloody math lessonįortunately, the tens of hundreds of numbers that you'll see while playing Minesweeper have nothing to do with math. If your time has come, a mine will be unearthed and your game will be over! ![]() If you're lucky, the square that you click will turn into a number, or, even better, a wide open space in the playing field will show up, leaving brand new territories open to explore. Each click removes one of these squares and determines your destiny of life or death. The controls couldn't be easier all you do is use your everyday mouse to click square after square. Red digits that represent how many mines are left to be untagged, a timer that counts up from zero, and a yellow, bald smiley face all reside at the top of the grid. Minesweeper's playing field is composed of nothing more than a square-shaped grid made up of several gray squares. After a few weeks blew by, I finally figured out that I could prosper by clicking the Help menu and reading about how to play. ![]() It seemed to be more based on luck than bingo and it was about as fun as staring into space with nothing on your mind. For months, I was included in the majority that had no idea about how to play the damn thing. ''I don't understand that game! All you do is click squares until you lose!!!''ĭoes that sound like you? If not, I bet you'll get that reaction if you ask at least two random people what they think of Minesweeper. More playable games like Solitaire and Wheel of Fortune took up my thousands of minutes of spare time when I was actually bored enough to check out what PC gaming had to offer. Upon receiving my very own computer many years ago, it took me over a year to finally decide to try out this explosive little title that's on every computer in the world. Minesweeper seems to be one of those games…at first. Some games aren't meant to be played unless you're just bored out of your mind with nothing to do but sit and stare at the detail of the walls around you. I've got too much time on my hands, and I don't know what to do with it all " I've got too much time on my hands, and I don't know what to do with it all" ![]()
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