Minesweeper Have to guess?

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 22:59

Solvable, or is a guess necessary?

RoboCod · 28 Jul 2016 at 22:59

Bottom middle.

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:01

There's 3 mines remaining.

RoboCod · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:01

Yep, deffo bottom middle, pick that one.

delta0 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:03

Middle flagged one at the bottom left isn't a mine. Neither is there a mine directly above the first 3 on the left (I.e. 2 up from the flagged one).

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:05

Explain your working.

thingemajib · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:05

Just about any other combination would give too many or too little to the '4'. Also, what Delta said.

edit: Moving the top one left and the middle one down also works. Dammit.

Amp34 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:06

That one next to the one could easily be just above, not to the left. Otherwise I agree.

Problem is it could just as easily be the polar opposite and would work equally well.

delta0 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:06

MajorMaccas said:
Explain your working.

The 2 on the left means there is a mine diagonally up from it. This means the second 2 immediately next to it is now contacting 2 mines and therefore the middle flagged one is not a mine.

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:07

thingemajib said:

Equally, the ones you didn't dot work just as well...

Amp34 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:08

delta0 said:
The 2 on the left means there is a mine diagonally up from it. This means the second 2 immediately next to it is now contacting 2 mines and therefore the middle flagged one is not a mine.

Aren't the flags found mines. The blue tiles are the unknown ones?

RoboCod · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:08

Just press it!!

cheesyboy · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:09

The 2 on the left needs to be touching another mine

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:09

delta0 said:
The 2 on the left means there is a mine diagonally up from it. This means the second 2 immediately next to it is now contacting 2 mines and therefore the middle flagged one is not a mine.

Both of those 2's are each only touching two squares, which MUST be mines.

delta0 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:10

Amp34 said:
Aren't the flags found mines. The blue tiles are the unknown ones?

Flags are placed by the player. If you find a mine you lose. You can only mark suspect spots.

delta0 · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:11

MajorMaccas said:
Both of those 2's are each only touching two squares, which MUST be mines.

Thanks for showing the rest of the board. That wasn't clear in the original image. I agree with the flag choices you made. I think your blue one needs a guess.

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:11

Can you imagine Twitch plays minesweeper?

cheesyboy · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:13

Yeah, you have to guess

Chuk_Chuk · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:13

Going by the comments here, Do the numbers correspond to the number of mines directly next to that square?

MajorMaccas · 28 Jul 2016 at 23:13

delta0 said:
Thanks for showing the rest of the board. That wasn't clear in the original image.

What I showed in the original image was enough to disprove your thinking. The second 2 in from the left was only touching 2 of the bottom 3 squares, along with the adjacent 3 that is only touching the bottom 3 squares. Do you see? The second slightly expanded image wasn't necessary, it just showed the mine you could and did presume was adjacent to the left-most 2.