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A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~manning/dynamine.html

Java applet for testing computer strategies for playing minesweeper.
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Programmer's Minesweeper  Minesweeper game delivered with most Microsoft Windows operating systems. In that game, a grid of cells is presented to the player. If the player probes a cell with a mine, the game is lost. If the player probes a cell...
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/pgms/

Java implementation with three levels of play, and an online hall of fame, which requires two games with a low time to emphasize skill over luck.
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Free Online Minesweeper Game  In our free online minesweeper games, you must locate all mines (bombs) in a mine field as quickly as possible by uncovering squares that do not contain a mine, using your left mouse button, and marking squares that do, using...
http://www.mine-sweeper.com/

Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.
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Lady Di's mines  Trust in its efforts to clear the world of landmines. All time top scores Top scores for 2005 Top scores for 2004 Top scores for 2003 Top scores for 2002 Top scores for 2001 Top scores for 2000 Top scores...
http://www.minesweeper.org/

World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.
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The Authoritative Minesweeper  ...
http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/

An improved minesweeper-clone that generates guaranteed-to-be-solvable puzzles (never guess anymore) and has a Murphy's law option (guessing causes failure), more boards, sound, load, save, undo.
http://www.czeppi.de/english

Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.
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Hex Minesweeper  Minesweeper is just like traditional Windows Minesweeper except instead of using a map of four sided squares it uses a map of six sided hexes! Hex Minesweeper has digitized sound effects and complete on-line help. The objective of Hex Minesweeper...
http://members.aol.com/hausebill/hexmines.html

Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.
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Hexatron  This is how the game looks. You need Java to play it here. Can you locate the mines without blowing up any? Here are those evil old mines again. But now they are hiding under hexagons, so you will be...
http://www.hexatron.com/hex/

Contains various articles on Microsoft's Minesweeper including randomness, board cycles, first click, and bugs. Extensive experimentation.
http://www.nuprograms.com/minesweeper/

This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.
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Minesweepers.org The Fastest, Best and Record Minesweeper Times  USER NAME: PASSWORD: REMEMBER ME Best Times Expert Times Expert Plus Times Intermediate Times Beginner Times World Record History 24 Hour Times 24 Hour Activity NEW! Flag Survey Sign Up! The Handbook Forum Links Play More Games! 27 Oct 2005...
http://www.minesweepers.org

Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.
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Richard Kaye's minesweeper page  Mathematics after forty years of the space age Mathematical Intelligencer, Fall 99, 38-44. NEW! My Minesweeper talk at the ASE meeting in Birmingham, Jan 3-5 2003, is here (PDF file, 300k This talk contains some nice graphics, and some new...
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/minesw.htm

Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.
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Minesweeper Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper

Contains advice, cheats, rankings, downloads, and a forum. [English and French.]
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Minesweeper, game of the century  Choose your language since september 1st, 2001 Minesweeper is a game of Microsoft Optimized for Internet Explorer 5 Recommended resolution: 1024x768 Grégoire Duffez 2001-2005. All rights reserved...
http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/

Windows implementation of minesweeper on the surface of a 3D polyhedron, with challenging new tilings, and many boards to choose from. World records maintained online using encrypted submission. Built-in auto-solver. Demo version available.
http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/

Binary and source to a port of the Minesweeper game for the Atari VCS 2600.
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Minesweeper for Atari VCS 2600  This is my first attempt at programming the 2600: Minesweeper. This is not a final version, but there is only the sound missing, no known bugs at the moment. I will implement sound sometimes, but not in the near future,...
http://soeren.informationstheater.de/atari/

Commercial mobile-phone version of Minesweeper with new tools including probes and a radar.
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AirPlay: Bomb Hunter  Makers of fun and addictive mobile games Games Super Yum Yum Bomb Hunter About Screenshots Phones/Buy Rex The Runt Absolute Yum Yum Super Yum Yum 2 News Company Games Company About Us Contact Resources Jobs Bomb Hunter Tick Tock Tick...
http://www.airplayuk.com/games/bombhunter/

Windows shareware implementation of Minesweeper and a new variation in which new types of mines contribute 2 or 3 to the number seen in adjacent squares.
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Crazy Minesweeper download best minesweeper game. Professional minesweeper download  Minesweeper fan then you have got to check out Crazy Minesweeper modern remake of the classic minesweeper based on original idea. Crazy Minesweeper is a full-featured minesweeper game. It is a challenging game of strategy and luck. This Minesweeper game...
http://www.astatix.com/crazyminesweeper.php

Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_%28computer_game%29