Play with a touchscreen or with a mouse and keyboard to mark the locations of all the mines without uncovering any of them Start with an Easy puzzle and work your way up to Expert. The score is shown with a leading 0 rather than a minus sign. Play the logic game you know and love, now with updated graphics and sound. Update 2: Once your score goes above 2147483648 (2^31) it starts to go back down as you collect more treasure - clearly the score is held as a 32 bit signed integer. Update: I'm at level 500 now, the pattern is repeating predictably: I've also noticed that while you can stockpile shields, it doesn't seem to let you keep more than 3 'lives' even though you can pick up quite a few more as you progress through the levels.īasically I think the game goes on indefinitely, with a repeating sequence of 10 levels, each having similar characteristics to the one 10 levels before, but differing slightly in the placement of walls, treasure, traps etc. In the multiples of 5 levels, there are treasure chests which worth vastly more than all the other treasure, making it relatively pointless to waste dynamite on other levels getting at the much less valuable treasure. So long as you don't waste what you pick up in the intervening four levels, you have more than enough to keep going indefinitely (I typically use 5/6 dynamites and 1/2 maps in the tricky levels). where the level number is a multiple of 5) has so many traps that you'll need to use some of your axes/dynamite/maps to get through unscathed.

Four out of every five levels can be completed using logical deduction only to find the way through to the exit (you don't need to guess or use pick axes/dynamite/maps). 'Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly Minesweeper) is a minesweeper computer game created by Curt Johnson, originally for OS/2, and ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time. After playing on for a bit (up to level 131 now) it seems that the levels just go through a fairly repetitive cycle.