minesweepers

Naval bomb hunters

Minesweepers are naval vessels designed to detect and neutralize underwater mines, clearing safe passages for other ships.

The work is dangerous and painstaking, requiring specialized equipment to locate explosives hidden beneath the surface.

By extension, minesweeper names the classic computer puzzle game where players deduce the locations of hidden mines on a grid: I used to play minesweeper during slow days at work.

naval

warships

Military combat vessels

magnetic · acoustic · influence · contact · moored · drifting · clearance · channels · harbors · convoy

game

Windows

Microsoft operating system

  • puzzleChallenge testing ingenuity
  • gridFramework of intersecting lines
  • flagsSymbolic national cloths

tiles · clicking · numbers · logic · squares · bombs · reveal · unmarked · timer · difficulty

Categories
Opposites
naval function

minesweepersminelayers

Ships deploying sea explosives

naval mines · sea mines · U-boats · submarines

naval combat role

minesweepersminelayers

Ships deploying sea explosives

attack submarines · destroyers · battleships · submarines · torpedo boats

Family

minesweeper

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG