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- From: cm@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org (Christoph Mueller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
- Keywords: Mine Sweeper, Cheating, Chance
- Message-ID: <DDVcPB4w165w@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 92 20:47:12 CED
- References: <1992Aug10.030944.4994@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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- Organization: Christoph's PC, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- peaan3@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (PEARSON ARRAN) writes:
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- >
- >
- > I don't think minesweeper is a game of luck. There is a slight chance
- > element involved in your 2 - 3 moves but once you have a firm point to start
- > then it is possible to work it out. I think that is the point of the game.
- > the rare cases that it is not easily discerable where to go next, then it is
- > possible to recognise patterns in how the computer places the mines.
- >
- > Oh well, that's my two cents worth!
-
- Yes and no. In almost every second game where I have about one third solved
- already there are points where it's impossible to tell where there is a
- mine and where there is none. Think of the following example:
-
- ) 1 1 . "m" is a mine, "." is anything uncovered (no mines), "(" is
- ) m 2 . the border (or make it "2"s), and "_" are the two yet uncovered
- ) _ 2 . fields. How do you tell which "_" is a mine and which is none.
- ) _ 2 . This happens to me all the time. The chance is 50% that you hit
- ) m 2 . I hope that's not how real mine uncovering works but you know more
- ) 1 1 . about that than I do (guessing from your address ;-) )
-
- Of course this is just one possible situation of many other similar ones.
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- ---Christoph, Germany --- cm@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org
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