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Guess-Free Minesweeper

:: projects, game, artificial-intelligence, math

By: Mike Delmonaco

Have you ever played Minesweeper? If you have, you’ve probably run into a situation where you’re forced to guess, hoping you’re not about to step on a mine and lose the game. What if I told you it was possible to make it so you never have to guess in a game of minesweeper?

In this post, I’ll explain how I made a minesweeper solver and how I used the solver to generate guess-free minefields.