Minesweeper is similar to a Sudoku puzzle in that your success is largely contingent on being able to eliminate possible answers until only one answer remains.
On higher difficulties, you’ll need to mark squares that you suspect contain mines until you can verify that they do contain mines.
Easy 9x9 - A nine-by-nine grid with 10 mines. Medium 16x16 - A sixteen-by-sixteen grid with 40 mines. Expert 30x16 - A thirty-by-sixteen grid with 99 mines. Custom - Set your own game parameters, including the grid size, number of mines, and so on.
If you don’t want to play through the tutorial, click Skip at the top of the window instead.
Make sure that you don’t flag more squares than the number of mines on the board.
This is a safe strategy for boards on which you’ve found all but two or three of the mines.
If you accidentally click a square that has a mine beneath it, the game will be over. You’ll have the option of starting a new game or redoing the one you just played.
