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tydok on Feb 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (2005)

It's not based on math, it's empirical. In practice seems to work.

I applied it on the minefield in the article and I solved it.

To put it another way, on two adjacent tiles where there's one mine, if you had the choice to reveal a 2 or a 6, which one would you choose?

ufo on Feb 5, 2017 [–]

Someone should build a little computer simulation to test this over a million minefields.

seanp2k2 on Feb 6, 2017 | | [–]

Better, have it actually learn from mistakes and see what logic it comes up with.

tydok on Feb 5, 2017 | | [–]

Good idea, I could do it.

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