Minesweeper Puzzle


? ? ? ? ? ?
? 2 2 2 2 ?
? 2 0 0 2 ?
? 2 0 0 2 ?
? 2 2 2 2 ?
? ? ? ? ? ?


Deduce the location of all mines in the picture above

How to play...

    Minesweeper is a game where you use deductive logic to locate hidden mines in a board of tiles. Covered squares ( ) may or may not hide a mine. Other squares display a number (eg. 3 , 4 , or 1 ) respresenting the number of mines present in the 8 squares adjacent to that square. Blank squares ( 0 ) indicate that there are zero mines in the adjacent squares. Using these numbers, it is possible to deduce the location of mines based on the numbers describing them.

Examples

0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 2 2 1 0
0 2 ? ? 2 0
0 2 ? ? 2 0
0 1 2 2 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0


How many mines are hidden in the picture above?

? 3 1 1 0
? ? ? 1 0
1 2 2 2 1
? ? 1 ? 1
1 1 3 ? 2
1 ? 2 ? 1


Which covered squares hide mines in the picture above?

From Richard Kaye's paper Minesweeper is NP-Complete (The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 22, Number 2, 2000)

Think you got the answer? Send it to me and earn eternal (ephemeral?) fame --> Send me an email\!
<-- Back