If you accidentally click on a square with a mine on it, then it explodes and you lose a life. Your task then is to click on squares that don't have mines, which will give you more information about the squares nearby that do have mines, as it will mark them with numbers or turn them from blue to white to indicate a blank square you don't have to �clear.� You can right-click on squares to indicate whether you think there is a mine there, or whether you are uncertain about it, to make it easier to clear the board.

Each square's number indicates how many mines it is adjacent to generally. The standard gameplay for minesweeper includes looking at a board that's marked with numbers on squares. The easy ones are often just about trying to clear the board in a regular way while having only a couple of lives to do it. Some days will also give you a �Daily Bonus� to help you fill-up the bar.Įach potential challenge in the day is marked, easy, hard, or medium. If you do it this way, you can fill up your progress bar by trying challenges that are different every day. You also have the option of trying out the daily challenges for whatever day you are on by making that selection after opening up the game. Then, if you know a bit more about Minesweeper and you want more of a challenge, you can try the yellow one marked �Medium� which has a 16 by 16 tile board. It starts wi the easy option in green, which is a 9x9 board.

This version of it allows you to start by deciding what kind of game board you want. Microsoft Minesweeper is a classic PC game.

Microsoft minesweeper