This was a 95% safe guess.
The zoom is denying critical information. Also the spaces touching the 2 were safe.
>>12063627Wrong on both counts, but the 95% is also wrong. There are three possible combinations for two mines in four tiles adjacent the twos, one of which puts a mine in the five other tiles adjacent the 1. 1/3 * 1/5 = 1/15 so it was in fact only 93% safe!
>>12063621Show us the full minefield, I wanna see if this was truly solvable.
>>12063638I didn't try doing guess-and-check markup because I had such a safe guess and was feeling a little impatient.
>>12063647Starting from the circled 1, here's the progress I would've made, but I wouldn't know where to go next until I knew what numbers were on the checked tiles that I can't deduce a number for.
>>12063627the mines touching the two weren't known.>>12063621it was a 6/7 safe guess, 85.71%.
>>12063663>it was a 6/7 safe guess, 85.71%.Monty Hall, Anon.
>>12063681Not really Monty Hall. >>12063634 was just a step removed from brute force combinatorics by laying out every possible combination.
>>12063621that was a 100% incorrect guess as the information shown already tells you where the bomb around that 1 is
To this day i dont know how minesweeper works
>>12063987the numbers mean that block has that many bombs hidden in the 8 tiles surrounding it. you can place flags to mark where you think bombs are (the numbers will often guarantee you where they are mathematically but sometimes a game can come down to a guess towards the end. you dont actually have to even leave flags. and you can leave a question mark if you arent sure.
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Have you guys seen the rare tile with 8 mines circling it?
>>12063681Oh yeah, I didn't account for the "2" in the corner. It's actually 93%, like >>12063627 said (or 93.2%).
>>12063621get gud
>>12065279How does someone even get good at minesweeper
>>12065287I think you have to be born with it.
>>12065287Someone who hasn't gotten good can only process what each individual number tells them. Getting good is learning to correlate multiple numbers and particularly correlating multiple "one of these two" type data points. As you go you'll figure out techniques to do that, start to recognize patterns, etc.
>>12065287you can't. at least not in the old school one. it's literally a game of chance
>>12065287Ask professional gamblers.
