Minesweeper Expert Walkthrough

Minesweeper Expert Walkthrough - Tips and tricks

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Jim Raynor

10 жыл бұрын

A playthrough of Minesweeper on expert with commentary.

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@oliverradosav2475 2 жыл бұрын

Only legends will like this video

@generic8618 Жыл бұрын

facts

@Davidamp 4 жыл бұрын

Proof by contradiction: the game

@Pintkonan 4 жыл бұрын

the point is that you develop skills where you dont think about this anymore. you see the numbers and combinations of setups and begin to become fast (o:

@MrSongib 3 жыл бұрын

you still need "luck" 🤣

@pinospin9588 2 жыл бұрын

Especially when you set to 99 mines

@robotron6420 Жыл бұрын

@@MrSongib Sadly, yes. There's moments where you need luck

@crown_420 Жыл бұрын

I call it the assumption and cancellation method.

@hnkul702 7 жыл бұрын

I really like your guide. You basically talked about everything there is to Minesweeper logic in great depth. Having said that, I don't play the Windows version anymore since you need incredible luck to solve most puzzles because of forced guessing. Thankfully there's a Simon Tathem version of Mines that allows for boards as large as your screen, and where you can get the game to ensure the puzzle is possible without making forced guesses (at about 95% success rate). Your first click is always a square with no mines around it. I'm sure you can clear a 35x80 board with 750 mines on it on that game. It's a challenge but one based purely on skill.

@hnkul702 7 жыл бұрын

Having said that, there is another level of clicking logic that goes beyond the scope of this board, although you would figure it out pretty easily since you know which squares are safe.

@freegamingcocsashorts7605 Жыл бұрын

@@hnkul702 :

@TheKyleFyles 10 ай бұрын

@hnkul702 I didn't know about Simon Tathem, thank you!

@hnkul702 10 ай бұрын

@@TheKyleFyles No problem! I still enjoy that version! I find that the maximum level of difficulty you can have with that version is to make the board big enough that it fills most of your screen but small enough that the game does not have to shrink the squares (for me, that board is 90x40), and have the mine count be 1/3 of the total squares. I do not recommend exceeding 1/3 of the total, because the algorithm will give up and just lazily shove all the mines into one part of the board, making your game laughably easy.

@michaelsong5555 5 жыл бұрын

9:10 You don't want to "click randomly." There are two factors to consider when you have no choice but to take risks: 1. See the probability. If you have 3 choices, and only one of them has mine, then you should prefer to click one of those (66% correct). Compared to 1 out of 2, which is (50%). 2. If the chances are the same (such as this video), then click on something that has a good payout -- aka, if you clear one of the mine, then it clears a lot of other cells. Clicking randomly in this particular case was a stupid move, because even though he got the correct one, it still didn't improve his actual situation, and therefore, he had to take another risk right afterwards.

@georgekyriakou802 4 жыл бұрын

someone had to say that. custom boards can lead to really challenging probability or payout thinking, which is nice when you are already bored playing by the same standard techniques

@kilgour22 4 жыл бұрын

A true random click actually has a 79.375% chance of not being a mine. Technically, a random click is superior to the vast majority of guesses. Obviously there's information given by the current layout, and it's important to calculate the probabilities of various squares. A pseudorandom guess is optimal, whereby one eliminates known high-probability-of-mine squares from the clickable pool to maximize the probability of the remaining squares being safe. He demonstrated this conditional probability near the end of the video, with the two mines remaining in a bunch of unknown squares.

@yassinehimadi Жыл бұрын

@@kilgour22 not in late game

@bobczech7774 11 ай бұрын

@@yassinehimadi 5050s suck. The times I lose to a 5050 make me mad and gets me vexed with the game.

@Sideshow-Bob 22 күн бұрын

@@kilgour22 sorry but no, 79.375 % chance of not being a mine would only be the first click with no mines discovered. By the end of the game the chance of a random click falling into a mine is MUCH higher.

@tautvydasa77 6 жыл бұрын

thats what I hate about this game, its that sometimes you just have to guess

@jacobg8640 4 жыл бұрын

@@khaledashrifena21novagymna48 There are points where you absolutely have to guess. If you get to a corner and are left with a 50-50, there's no working your way around it.

@ders. 4 жыл бұрын

Khaled Ashrife 8B Korsavadsskolan 7-9 Did you watch the video?

@yourdad5471 3 жыл бұрын

I just died in my very last 2 boxes... And wrong guess... F****

@yourdad5471 3 жыл бұрын

@@ders. he probably didn't

@TRBenjiSwiss 3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobg8640 ive gotten to a point where i always lose a 50-50 guess so really is 0-0 for me lmao

@matsang2008 2 жыл бұрын

After 8 years, finally you opened my eyes on logic behind the Minecraft, thank You.

@sharkfiinn 2 жыл бұрын

minecraft....

@matsang2008 2 жыл бұрын

@@sharkfiinn sorry got it wrong 🤣 i meant MineSweeper 🤣

@xCARNAGEakaRAYRAY 7 жыл бұрын

17 years I've wondered what happened if you won. 17 YEARS!

@superyeah4ever2 5 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@zcw123 3 жыл бұрын

30 years here

@Mlindos 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Random-zt4ig 3 жыл бұрын

Man thanks for this! I've always loved minesweeper but when I tried this expert difficulty I found it really difficult your tips helped me! Thanks

@cranelord 2 ай бұрын

Ive been looking for a guide like this. Ive got the basics down but this opened a line of thinking I've never considered. Thanks.

@dh2778 9 жыл бұрын

There are 5 mines you can count in the last situation, not four. Making the correct educated guess plays a big part in achieving higher win percentages.

@jimraynor3155 9 жыл бұрын

I checked again and I only see four. Remember, the "areas" that you count must be completely non-overlapping.

@dh2778 9 жыл бұрын

Jim Raynor You may want to triple check that. Remember, there are two missing around the bottom 3.

@jimraynor3155 9 жыл бұрын

Ah yeah, you're right, you can count 5. Thanks.

@irl8796 3 жыл бұрын

@@dh2778 this isn’t true. there has to be 2 there, but it was very possible one could have came from the 4 above and 2 next to it. I get the outcome in hindsight was different, but That would have made only 4 you can for sure count.

@dh2778 3 жыл бұрын

@@irl8796 You should count again.

@Revelatus 5 жыл бұрын

i coded my own version of minesweeper, it helped me learn how the game works but this video helped me understand a lot of the necessary logic to win in expert

@crimsontortoise5298 2 жыл бұрын

can someone play yours?

@conspiracytheorylover 2 жыл бұрын

I learned new tricks 1:29 and 2:40 and others from this video .... and your video is easy to understand thank you very much :D

@ChangaChet 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, I was struggling with the contradicting logics, now I know how. Thanks again

@ankitkumarsingh2209 6 жыл бұрын

I really really like your technique.. .. Hey I have been able to solve advance minesweeper first time..Thanks..

@SmokingSpoon 3 жыл бұрын

Really nice guide! It's even better since it's Jimmy Raynor! i'm happy that I knew pretty much all of these tips/logics on my own from playing too much lol.

@ChandanKumar-du1of 7 ай бұрын

Keystone video IMO. Made me give up the guessing game most of the times. Thank you for existing.

@sicdav1d0ff 8 жыл бұрын

That's the one small step i needed to become a lot better. Thanks

@gg123gaming8 4 жыл бұрын

Finally after 19 years i finally know how to play it

@TAB-Spec 7 жыл бұрын

definitely sharing for my family and friends... or not I could act like a pro and wow them for forever... THAT sounds FUN!!!

@KeisariCubes 3 жыл бұрын

Wow this helped me alot! I didn't realise I can use basic sudoku techniques for MS too!

@wing0ng 9 жыл бұрын

I really like this video. Thanks for the tips!

@eggy337 9 ай бұрын

This is exactly what i was looking for

@ldoubleprime1654 2 жыл бұрын

As a 14 year old getting into such a old game i really was struggling with the logic part of this game of how situations would over satisfy others only focusing on patterns and the obvious mines and that would make me trip up this made me understand more situations more clearly so thank you video made years ago

@powfoot4946 2 жыл бұрын

Im happy im not the youngest person playing this

@epikbaconb9780 5 ай бұрын

Very nice walkthrough

@MLL65 Жыл бұрын

i love how you play this game

@MrStarTraveler 4 жыл бұрын

IMO something you did but didn't explain well is how educated guesswork works. Or evaluating probabilities based on the known numbers. For example: At 9:06 Let's take cells at row 1 columns 15, 16, 17.(counting from upper left corner) Looking at the know numbers there, we can estimate that there is only one mine among those three cells. Therefore clicking on any one of them gives 75% chance of survival and 25% chance of stepping on a mine. That's a good chance IMO. I would prefer that instead of randomly clicking on a cell I have no idea what's the chance of being safe or not. Also at 9:06 If we look at two pairs of cells; One pair at (rows 1 and 2, column 14) and the other pair at (row 2, columns 14 and 15). Both pairs have one mine among the two cells that consist them. However since both pairs share a cell at row 2, column 14, that might indicate the chance there is a mine in that cell is greater than the change of two mines being in the other two cells not shared by the two pairs. That's especially true if counting the missing mines indicated by known numbers in non-overlapping regions gets most of the mines accounted for. Well if most of the missing mines get accounted for then clicking on in a completely unknown region makes more sense but you get what I mean. :)

@roeniss 7 ай бұрын

15, 16, 17 how make 75% of survive? you mean 66%?

@MrStarTraveler 7 ай бұрын

@@roeniss It was a bad example. But Yeah it's 66% not 75.

@heynando 8 жыл бұрын

so freaking cool. thanks a lot!

@Mikeandnike5 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks u man......this video was really awesome. thank u again man.