Knowledge: minesweeper
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Links
- Dynamite Minesweeper (Dynamine)
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~manning/dynamine.html - A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.
- Programmer's Minesweeper
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/pgms/ - Java applet for testing computer strategies for playing minesweeper.
- #1 MineSweeper
http://www.mine-sweeper.com/ - 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.
- Lady Di's mines
http://www.minesweeper.org/ - Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.
- The Authoritative Minesweeper
http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/ - World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.
- Mines-Perfect
http://www.czeppi.de/english - 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.
- Hex Minesweeper
http://members.aol.com/hausebill/hexmines.html - Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.
- Hexatron
http://www.hexatron.com/hex/ - Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.
- Writings on Minesweeper
http://www.nuprograms.com/minesweeper/ - Contains various articles on Microsoft's Minesweeper including randomness, board cycles, first click, and bugs. Extensive experimentation.
- The Minesweeper Handbook
http://www.minesweepers.org - This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.
- Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Page
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/minesw.htm - Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.
- Planet Minesweeper
http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/ - Contains advice, cheats, rankings, downloads, and a forum. [English and French.]
- MineSweeper3D
http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/ - 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.
- Minesweeper for Atari VCS 2600
http://soeren.informationstheater.de/atari/ - Binary and source to a port of the Minesweeper game for the Atari VCS 2600.
- Bomb Hunter
http://www.airplayuk.com/games/bombhunter/ - Commercial mobile-phone version of Minesweeper with new tools including probes and a radar.
- Crazy Minesweeper
http://www.astatix.com/crazyminesweeper.php - 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.
- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_%28computer_game%29 - Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.
- Truffle-Swine Keeper
http://freenet-homepage.de/hskopp/swinekeeper.html - A minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.
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