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There are some more advanced solving techniques called Whole substitution. Useful on 99 mines difficulty. By subtracting unknown-location-known-number minefield group to make clues. Something like A OR B (logic OR) has 2 mines A has 1 (A has more blocks so the mine is not yet found) therefore B has 1. And you may find B OR C has 2 therefore C has 1. Sometimes the chain can get pretty far away as there are too many mines blocking the detector to make every clue clear. And the inequality solution in 8:21 middle seg+right block=2 mines middle seg+left block=1 mine therefore left=safe right=mine. By replacing a cells with b cells the change of mine values can be a range of -a to +b. If I find a deadend corner 2 blocks wide (both corner block have 5 unexcavated blocks around) with one saying 1 and the other saying 4 then the 3 more blocks on 4's side are all mines and the more blocks on 1's side are all safe. It's an extremum which only this layout allows such a result.

Me who plays minesweeper but watches minesweeper ideas really says something

waiter for more games (sudoku alg.)and Minesweeper adv.

nice

1:50 Divide and rule

is minesweeper that hard?

For people who are first hearing about or learning the rules of Minesweeper in this video, you should know that with most applications you use Minesweeper isn't always solvable, as in you can't always logically deduce the solution as there may be more than one and then you're forced to guess. Just thought of saying this since I didn't know it when I first learned and for a while spent a lot of time trying to figure out some configurations which I now know aren't solvable.

You and fans of this video would love the computer game Bombe, where you use Venn Diagram rules to automatically solve Minesweeper variants.

What program or website you use to create this presentation?

I've been playing a version of Minesweeper called Bombe - if you enjoy this idea of building rules that solve Minesweeper, you might appreciate it!

i figured out simpler version of smarter strategy by simple "what if" deduction (didn't understood almost any of the things about connection with sets though). but the final playthrough of the bot was still useful because i found the reverse of my strategy

Damn this made me interested to mine sweeper been avoiding on from my windows xp for years because i cant understand it

you can use the cheat code :P

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This is the most useless video I saw today! EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT! BASIC LOGIC!

“Kids these days won’t understand how to play minesweeper, not that we knew how to play it” -my dad

How do you only have 2.44K subs? I literally thought you had like - 100K or smth.I mean, you're growing fast, but still - not fast enough!

How do you even play it

It took me 6 minutes to realize this random video bestowed upon me by The Algorythm is actually teaching me math. And then suddenly programing. If only it was this entertaining when I was learning.

With your cursor inside the minesweeper window type "XYZZY" then press Shift-Enter and Enter. A white dot should appear in the upper-left corner of the screen. If it turns black, your cursor is resting on a mine. Note: This trick works best if your Windows background is black.

Never bothered with math in minesweeper. I just look at the numbers and use logic and common sense. I clicked on this video because I had hoped that it could solve those pesky little 50/50 situations that appear in almost every (hard) game atleast once or twice. well... I guess even math cant solve those ^^

it feels like hes doing it against his own will

yeah no.

interesting hearing all the strategies i use simplified into maths

This game is so weirdly addicting. It's so elegantly simple but complicated

My brain doesn’t wanna math today 😊😊😊

Thanks a lot.

i enjoy coding so breaking it down into code did actually help me as I can visualize what to do when something happens. i right most of my notes in a sudo code like structure using the common if, if else, and for loops cause those were what I learned on .

Is this how nerds play simple games?

I think 5:45 is where knowing math terms helps big time, even then had to re-watch and listen a few times... i seriously hate Maths terms and think the industry has a usability problem that stems from 100 of years ago... I can't think of anything better however! Nice vid.

One day I tried it. In a few hours I'm a master at it. It is how easy minesweeper really is lol

Simple You go fucking crazy and click until you win

how dare you make me thoroughly entertained by mathematical terminology. how dare you.

There is one more rule which is often implemented: If the first space that the player chooses is a mine, move that mine somewhere else on the board and return the new board configuration as if that first chosen space was not a mine.

Fun fact:there's a plce in the earth where you can play minesweeper irl!!!

After watching this video I relied one thing is that my brain is also a mine and it’s going to explode

Ohhhhhh. That's how minesweeper works. When I played minesweeper, I just click random tiles.

Didn't know it's so complicated

I've learned more math here than school 💀

I always thought the numbers were scores 🤣

This feel like this is going to be a 6 year old + video Imma just leave a comment

Well Made! It would be nice if in a next video you talk about how to solve Sudoku

How soldiers minesweep: Cautiously looking at the ground and disarming mines. How people minesweep in computer: *Math intensifies*

What the fuck

I'm a doctor. Never liked math. Felt math had no reality application. U proved me wrong at many levels. Kudos 👏

Wow this was in no way informational or helpful in how to solve 50/50s and I wasted my time watching most of it

As a child, I beat minesweeper, on windows 7, without even knowing how to play the game, or without any help. I still feel proud.

I would use a more versatile strategy, albeit maybe slow, that can solve the game optimally even when there is not enough information to surely advance. 1. List all the cases of arrangement of mines. 2. Remove the cases that don't match the numbers being shown on the tiles, as well as cases that don't match the number of remaining mines. 3. If a tile has mine in all of the remaining cases, that tile must have mine. If a tile doesn't have mina in any of the remaining cases, that tile must not have mine. If there is no tile found with those 2 searches, calculate the actual probability of each tile having mine, then open the tile with least probability of having mine. Theoretically, this is the strategy with the best win rate. To make it faster, we would: 1. Apply the basic strategies and other fast strategies while they can be applied. 2. Classify unknown tiles into neighbouring with at least a number, and not neighbouring any number. Then we only need to check all possible arrangements of mines in the neighbouring tiles; if we need to calculate probability, we can add "weight" for each arrangement of mines in the neighbouring tiles by the corresponding numbers of possible arrangements of mines in the non-neighbouring tiles (using the corresponding numbers of remaining mines).

I wanted to see minesweeper video dammit, not a math video :/

I am afraid when i am in the corner and there is "1" and "2", pointing at the same area of 2 tiles. It's 50/50.