Minesweeper Classic 2

Played Minesweeper then Minesweeper classic then classic 2 for many years.. upgrading for a buck or whatever it was years ago has been way worth it. I have played 15k games at the hardest level since classic. Only win about 2%. One add popped up. Irritated by that. But maybe there won’t be anymore. Love this Game. My Advanced level win rate is up to 4%. I continue to learn little secrets about this game, even after nearly 20 years of play. 2022 update. Still playing after all these years. Using custom level. Made largest board and slowly worked up to 170 mines. Could not win at 170 mines. Tried for 6 months. Many hundreds of games. Came very close a few times but could not win. Dropped to 169 mines and won a game after 15 losses. I don’t want to think how many millions of games I have played. The upshot to playing a difficult custom game is that the Hard level is relatively easy.

1. Too many times do you have to make a guess (an either or guess move) to win a game after you have gone through all the moves to get to a win. Frustrating!!!! 2. It often takes too many times to be able to start a game successfully. I have gone maybe 15 minutes to be able to get to a good start of the game. This is very frustrating as you want to get playing and the bad starts go against your win percentage. 3. There are games which are impossible to win unless you make proper guesses. No matter how much you try to figure out a move to continue on, there is no proper move that can be made without a guess. An example of this is putting a bunch of mines together in a corner. 3. Your percentage of winning would go way up if you could eliminate 1, 2 and 3 above. I like the game when you can think through all the moves without the game deciding whether you win or lose.

The gameplay is solid, you can zoom into and out of the puzzles, so far I’ve not had any problems with stats either! And for most of the puzzles I’ve not had problems, hence the 4 stars. There are only two outstanding issues with this game, the first is quite general: the beginning of a puzzle is a complete shot in the dark. Many have brought this up before, there isn’t enough information if, say, only one square is unveiled, to know where you can click, so you just have to be lucky for the next click. I’d say an easy way around this is to ensure that you can work through the whole puzzle opening from a corner, and ensuring there isn’t ever a mine in that corner. In this way we won’t lose games just because we didn’t click correctly, and this certainly won’t make the play easier considering how many untapped squares are left! The second issue is that sometimes the numbers are incorrect, I’ve had a case where I lost a puzzle bc I unveiled a square that was adjacent to a “1” square that already had a guaranteed mine next to it. Then when the mines were unveiled there were two around the square that said “1”! Had the square said “2” I obviously wouldn’t have so nonchalantly unveiled the other square! But thanks for creating the app, other than the above it’s great.