Playing Minesweeper

Minesweeper is a game you play against the computer. The goal is to uncover, in the shortest possible time, all the squares that don’t contain mines. If you uncover a square that contains a mine, you lose. The key is to use the numbers in the uncovered squares to determine which adjacent squares contain the mines.

Play Minesweeper

  1. Choose Minesweeper from the Games folder of the Start menu. If this is the first time you’ve played this game, click the difficulty level you want to try.

  2. Click a square to uncover it and to uncover any ...

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