This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Minesweeper solver
Article: 7791 of alt.hackers From: cpierce1@cp500.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Minesweeper solver Date: 10 May 1995 15:30:47 GMT Organization: Ford Motor Co., Powertrain Systems Lines: 24 Approved: foobar Distribution: world Message-ID: 3oqm77$j2c@eccdb1.pms.ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cp500.fsic.ford.com Status: RO
In article <3oo6i3$beb@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com
(Peter Seebach) writes:
|> In article <3odgpn$jch@erinews.ericsson.se>,
<eeittn@eei.ericsson.se> wrote:
|> >There already exists a cheat program for minesweeper.
|> [snip]
|> >choice remained. Was very good and could do all the
|> >levels down to about 2 or 3 remaining without guessing.
|>
|> I don't believe it. I think it's safe to say that there is no way
|> to even start a minesweeper level without guessing.
|>
The cheat has been out for some time. It's a "xyzzy" key sequence
(I'm not
going to give it out COMPLETELY--this is alt.hackers) and a colored dot will
appear on the desktop at position (0,0) which indicates if the currently-
pointed-to square is a mine.
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