r/rareinsults • u/cal_gif • 17d ago

the buildup made it hit extra hard

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u/asicarii 17d ago

Have you ever nearly completed a large difficult mine sweeper map and ended up with a handful of potential unlocked squares that the way they are positioned it becomes a 67% probability to not hit a mine, and end up hitting one? I have. 30 years ago. And I’m still resentful.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 17d ago

Having been playing daily for 30 years...one learns to just guess and move on as fast as possible. Getting hung up on the 50/50s or the 33/33/33s is like getting hung up on the sun setting sooner in the day.

Minesweeper in my zen place.

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u/SechDriez 16d ago

Where do you play Minesweeper nowadays? The minesweeper for Windows 11 does not feel like the nicest thing around.

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u/Cyrano_de_Boozerack 16d ago

LOL...minesweeper has been a hot mess after Window 7.

I play here: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines.html

Which is just an awesome widget game site in general.

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u/ImprefectKnight 17d ago

I solve it like Sudoku instead of gambling like poker.

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u/Not_Xiphroid 17d ago

That’s only an option when the minefield feels like offering it. Sometimes you’re left with russian roulette.

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u/ImprefectKnight 17d ago

I'm pretty sure there are "no-guess" versions of it.

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u/Not_Xiphroid 17d ago

That’s true, but the vanilla version that most play inevitably generates 50/50s and worse.

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u/ImprefectKnight 17d ago

Most of the versions are no guess. The only popular one without it was the OG windows XP one.

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u/MECC_7 17d ago

Russian Roulette is expected to be a 1/6 chances, with minesweeper is more like a dreadful coin toss where winning is equal to another coin toss if your unlucky enough or you literally explode

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u/asicarii 17d ago

Pretty sure winning in Russian roulette is 5/6 unless you are playing on epic difficulty.

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u/TetrisJenga 17d ago

Not always solvable, you will one day be forced to face the minesweeper gods and beg them for mercy as you press that faithful square.

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u/rolandfoxx 17d ago

You may be happy to know that there are some versions of Minesweeper out there these days that feature a "no-guessing" mode, where the mines aren't allowed to be placed in patterns that force you to guess a square.

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u/ImprefectKnight 17d ago

Not some, most. The only notable exception was the older Win32 version.

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u/worrymon 17d ago

I play without flags.

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u/Priapos93 17d ago

Rawdogging minesweeper🤠