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Is it possible to beat Minesweeper by setting all of the flags FIRST and then clearing the minefield?
My friend beat Minesweeper on Expert using a school computer (running Windows XP) and managed to win by setting all of the flags first (location of the mines) without revealing a single square until he set all of the flags.
I'm pretty Shure he cheated (Google "Minesweeper Cheats" if you don't know how to cheat at Minesweeper).
The cheat I think he used is the one that shows a white pixel in the top left corner of your screen if a square is safe to click.
My evidence behind it is that he immediately restarted the computer after "winning" (to get rid of the white pixel), claimed he "missed some" (pixels), and refused to "win" again.
Maybe I should call the Guinness Book of World Records so he can be entered into the Book. -_-
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
To answer your question no it's pretty impossible to set the flags first then beat the game because you'd have to know exacly where the mines were. Also Yes it's most likly he used a cheat... Or if he has no life he could have kept pressing new game ( which resets the squares to grey but keeps all the bombs in the same location) each time he lost he'd memorize where the mines were and put the flags over them to trick you into thinking he could beat the game in this manner. But like i said without prior knowledge of where the mines are it's pretty impossible to do that.
Source(s): i like minesweeper - 8 years ago
Minesweeper sets all of the mines based on where you first click, so it wouldn't technically be possible if you start a new game then set the flags without clicking. He most likely used some sort of cheating method. Either that, or he resumed a saved game/restarted a game and memorized where the mines were, because if you die and chose to replay that level, the mines spawn in the same spots. In that case, he would have had to memorize the placement of the mines: if he did that on expert, he would be a phenom in more than just minesweeper.
