Minesweeper
Click, flag, clear
Minesweeper is the puzzle game included with Microsoft Windows from 1990 onward, in which players click squares on a grid to reveal numbers indicating how many adjacent squares contain mines.
The goal is to uncover all safe squares without detonating a mine.
For many computer users, Minesweeper was their first encounter with logic-based puzzle games: I finally beat Minesweeper on expert difficulty. (Lowercase minesweeper is the naval vessel or the game generically.)
grid
Framework of intersecting lines
tile · bomb · safe · danger · chord · mark · beginner · intermediate · expert · timer
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MinesweeperQuake
Early 3D shooter franchise
first-person shooter · arcade game · Space Invaders · Asteroids · Call of Duty
MinesweeperWorld of Warcraft
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