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- From: c23tra@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Todd Alden)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
- Keywords: Mine Sweeper, Cheating, Chance
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.203452.10885@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 20:34:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.030944.4994@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <DDVcPB4w165w@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org>
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- Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.
- Lines: 70
- Originator: c23tra@kocrsw16
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- In article <DDVcPB4w165w@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org>, cm@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org (Christoph Mueller) writes:
- > peaan3@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (PEARSON ARRAN) writes:
- >
- > >
- > >
- > > 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:
-
- I have had times when I could not determine exactly where a mine was and
- had to guess. The following example is NOT one of them. The example
- is *impossible*!
-
- >
- > ) 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 ;-) )
-
- "Solution" 1:
-
- ) 1 1 . This one is impossible (as well as its mirror image).
- ) m 2 .
- ) M 2 .
- ) . 2 .
- ) m 2 . <---- can't be a "2" here (would be a "1" instead)
- ) 1 1 .
-
- "Solution" 2:
-
- ) 1 1 . This one is impossible as well.
- ) m 2 .
- ) M 2 . <---- can't be a "2" here (would be a "3" instead)
- ) M 2 . <---- can't be a "2" here (would be a "3" instead)
- ) m 2 .
- ) 1 1 .
-
- >
- > Of course this is just one possible situation of many other similar ones.
- >
-
- I doubt that this case happens to you all the time ;^), but I sure that
- other cases do.
- >
- >
- >
- > ---Christoph, Germany --- cm@cmm.ovum.ka.sub.org
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Dysklaemours? What's that? How do you spell that? Do I need that?
- > I *AM* the SYSTEM, the EMPLOYER, and the ORGANIZATION !!
-
-
- ---
- Todd
- --
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- Todd R. Alden (x0218)
- Delco Electronics Corporation
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