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Simon Tatham's most important work is keeping its page:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Try Mines, you never have to guess.



That's a great variation of the game. Thanks for sharing the page. It's a gem!


If you never have to guess there must be one more strategy to figuring it out I've never seen anyone mention, because I frequently get stuck with two options on the very hardest difficulty.


One non-obvious strategy is that the number of mines that are left on the field is known. Especially near the end, this can break a tie between two patterns of mines.


I thought of that but it hasn't been enough for me. Or I'm bad at counting


I love these kind of webpages with little programs to discover.


The first thing I install in every Android device.


This is a perfect version of the game, nice.




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