AI MINESWEEPER
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.
Read Patterns1-1, 1-2, 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 Explained
The pattern vocabulary of the game, each with a diagram — plus the single subset rule that generates every one of them.
Read Winning PlayHow to Win: Strategy & Tips
Openings, flag economy, safe chording, endgame mine-counting, and how to pick the least-bad cell on the rare day you must guess.
ReadWhy These Three, In This Order
How to Play covers the rules everyone needs first — what a number means, why the first click never hits a mine, and how chording turns a slow deduction into one click. Patterns Explained builds on that: it hands you the four shapes (1-1, 1-2, 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1) that resolve most boards on sight, plus the single subset rule that generates all of them, so you stop re-deriving the same logic every game. Strategy & Tips is the endgame — how to open a board to expose the most information fastest, when flagging actually helps instead of costing you time, and how to pick the least-bad cell on the rare board where no logical move exists.
Together they mirror how the built-in AI solver itself reasons: convert every number into a constraint, apply the pattern shortcuts first, and fall back to exact mine-probability counting only when deduction runs out. Read them in order and you'll start recognizing the same shapes the solver does.