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Minesweeper Strategy Guides

From your first click to reading 1-2-2-1 walls on sight: everything we've written about playing Minesweeper well, in the order worth reading it.

How to Play Minesweeper

The complete beginner rulebook: what the numbers mean, why the first click is always safe, flags, chording, and your first worked minute of play.

The pattern vocabulary of the game, each with a diagram — plus the single subset rule that generates every one of them.

Openings, flag economy, safe chording, endgame mine-counting, and how to pick the least-bad cell on the rare day you must guess.