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[taimatsu]

Have just won my first ever game of Minesweeper using http://birrell.org/andrew/minesweeper/ - I am very bad at it and have never won a game before, no matter what the medium. I am very chuffed!

This site has some very interesting webtoys, actually - http://birrell.org/andrew/knotwork/ is an applet for designing Celtic knotwork, and it's great fun to play with.

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[darcydodo]

*boggles* Even in the Beginner level?? Eliminative logic, girl, that's all it is!

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[taimatsu]

I knoooooooow. It's just... I don't know, I never quite understood how it worked. But now I can do it! I am happy!

[imc.livejournal.com]

There was allegedly one version of Minesweeper which had a `Dan Quayle' mode: one bomb in the whole field, and it was almost impossible not to win on the first click. :-)

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[darcydodo]

Heh. And, of course, it is impossible to lose on the first click. :)

[imc.livejournal.com]

No - if you are very unlucky, you could hit the one bomb on your first click.

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[darcydodo]

Ah, so different from "real" Minesweeper, then, where the board is generated with the first click. :)

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[damerell.livejournal.com]

Most implementations don't allow that.

[imc.livejournal.com]

The Java one above does. But I admit I don't think I've ever played the Windows one.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I've yet to see an implementation that does (other than the one above).

[imc.livejournal.com]

Well, my brother wrote one too. :-)

(His was based on the Mac one, which I've also never played.)