Games Review

Matthew Battison

msb1@bolton.ac.uk

matts-games-reviewing.blogspot.com

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Games Review

Minesweeper

Minesweeper is aimed at the casual gamer, and is mainly played just as a quick fix of gaming.

The idea of minesweeper is to discover all of the mines on the playing field in the quickest time, without actually uncovering them. If one of the mines is uncovered then it’s game over.

Minesweeper offers different modes in which the game can be played, beginner, intermediate, expert and custom. The custom game allows you to customise the playing field, by adjusting the height and width, and amount of mines in the playing field.

To play minesweeper you have to uncover the squares on the playing field, to do this you click a tile with your mouse. This will either have a mine under it which means its game over or it will have a number under it, this is a clue as to where the mines are located. If it has a number under it, then that is how many mines there are in the eight tiles surrounding it. Minesweeper also gives you some useful tools to locate the mines. If you suspect that under a certain tile there is a mine, you can put a flag on that square to mark it by right clicking the tile; if however you are not sure about a tile then you can place a question mark on top of it by double clicking the right mouse button.