Self-playing Minesweeper
I got frustrated with the mechanical aspects of playing
Minesweeper, so I wrote a java applet to do it. You can play it
as if it were the normal Minesweeper game, but you can also let
the computer solve it for you.
- Same rules and buttons as normal Windows Minesweeper
- Left-click uncovers a tile
- Right-click marks a tile as a mine (that's Command+Click
for you suckers with only one mouse button)
- Left+Right on a tile you've already uncovered uncovers
all tiles which have not been marked if you have already
marked the required number of tiles
- To let the computer solve things for you,
first uncover a large enough area for the computer
to have something to work with, then
double-click on any uncovered tile. Disclaimer: this is
not guaranteed to label EVERY mine it is possible to
deduce. But it usually does.
- If you die, hit Refresh or Reload to reload the applet
Some other cool Minesweeper links: