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50/50 Sucks period

I love playing in minesweeper online, but I only play no guessing mode. I respect everyone who play classical; not only do they have to play fast, but also in a way of minimizing risk.

Nice teaser. Next step: Minesweeper, the movie.

Hi, I would like to share a video I made about a simple intuitive "proof" (non rigorous) of the Obelus Principle. After reading the proof by Obelus, I saw it was just using combinatorics when there is an explanation I believe to be simpler. I did my best to communicate the idea. I link the video here, hopefully it is fine to do so. If not, I'll simply remove it. th-cam.com/video/KVLKUWpre3A/w-d-xo.html

5:34 that paid off... you wouldve been blown

We can do a Case Disjunction reasoning on the cell at row 2, column 7 (assume there is a mine, then assume there is no mine and compare). It reveals all 5 solutions

Heartbroken at the end of minesweeper content

thank you, next time I do mastery stream I am going to be hikaru and use this method

_laughs in guessless_

what often works is tiles that looks like not a bomb if it was slightly different

thank you :)

Now tell me how to solve 50/50 :(

Bombabilities

i dont understand ❤

I actually gave a talk about guessing in minesweeper last Monday, and this was definitely the part I felt I explained worst. I wish I had this video to reference then!

bel video, molto interessante

Would have been amazing if the video ended with you clicking the 1% and it had a bomb.

Bomb probability is always 50% It either is or it isn't a bomb, duh

Whoaaa ok nice thank you so much 🩶

Thank you for making all these guessing videos! You definitely brought interest over minesweeper theory for a lot of people, I even know some players that started playing because of your videos! As to this explanation, I think you synthesized it well!

Thanks for the content Mr. Buoy

Is 1 supposed to be almost certainly a bomb or almost certainly safe?

youre the best and the only minesweeper content creator ive ever seen. nice vids man

It seems that part of the point of the video is how impractical it would be to do the actual arithmetic "by hand"... But as someone that loves math, the formulas really do give me a better grasp of what exactly makes certain tiles more or less dangerous, and how much each potential factor influences things. Before this channel, I never would have guessed that configurations with just one or two fewer mines would get so much more weight, more than making up for the (presumed) tendency for them to have fewer combinatorial possibilities.

I really want to see just how unhinged mine sweeper can get

Is it you playing in the background?

Since you're a mastery player (or at least that's what you show off the most) I'm curious if you have any mastery-specific advice. For example, playing quickly when your win count is low and not being afraid to lose, but slowing down and playing more accurately when you have a good streak going. (Or tell me why that's a bad idea). Also, please keep doing RTMWR!

Your next goal is to teach how to choose the best probabale square without so much math. 😂

hey there, ive always played minesweeper ever since i was a kid but ive always quit every few months because the guessing and 50/50s was getting on my nerves. but then one of your videos, that classic opening one, had opened my eyes that there was always an optimal guessing spot. i was awe struck at how there was still optimal tiles to click even if there was no logic on the board. ever since then ive placed a bunch of hours into minesweeper every day since a few months ago maybe a bit too much haha. props for still making videos even though they dont hit the algorithm as much as some other videos because they help some people like me. thanks for even creating this channel in the first place and i hope to see more videos from you

beast

are you still doing rtmwr?

Tell me that you weren't serious and it won't be the last minesweeper strategy video please !!!!

Great video man keep it up :)

Very cool!

I love this. Truly an useful way to deal with this problem!

quanto l'ho aspettato madonna

THE VIDEO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR :D

Thanks to this videos I'm learning about forcing moves when guessing. That's so nice of an idea. Good vids too!

hello, i was wondering do top player use mouse or both mouse and keyboard to play the game, yet hard to see a live minesweeper with hand cam or tournament plays. Do you know the answer to it?

I prefer difficulty to mastery myself, but now that I'm finally hitting the mine count on 100x100 boards where guessing is mandatory, I find myself coming back to these videos and even reading Obelus's paper to make sense of how to solve these cases. Thanks again!

There's a reason you don't start in the corner...

Found your channel not so long ago, been trying to watch all the series, great videos man! Gameplay and commentary are perfect, keep it up!

So sigma

I'm relatively new to this but how do you edit in the probabilities after the fact. I dont know how to analyze my play after the game is over without using hints during the game. Is this a premium thing or something like that?

Good video 💯👍

I didn't fully read what formula you're using (and it's been a while I glanced over it) but I'm under the impression the probabilities are a bit smaller (and dropping faster at each defeat) than they should be? At least when I made my own calculator it used to give me different results. Perhaps what you're doing is the probability of success for the exact amount of games that maximize the chance of hitting a WR? Instead of calculating the probability of eventually hitting the WR at any point for the next 100 games or so? I found those to be quite remarkably different.

Minesweeper is pain, but I'm addicted. I'm rooting for you to get the world record, it's a feat I couldn't see myself achieving, but I can see you getting it.

legend is back!

Love the humming haha 😄