Minesweeper Opening Strategy: Breaking 50/50s

"Either one of these two things can happen: -you explode or -you survive"
Oh, thanks. I was hoping those were the only TWO possible outcomes
Great video on crunching the numbers of minesweeper though.

I quite like 50 50, i tend to like probability a lot so when i have this scenarios i love to find my way around. Be it via "fake chances" like "aint no way its a line of 6 mines in a row" and trying to guess the result of algorithm the computer decided to get.
Both really fun and rather effective

Whats minesweeper?

nice

the thumbnail looks like the h.h. gregg mascot

great content and idea, however i still find the trusted approach of "eeny meeny miny mo" to be more effective.

Stop breathing. Go get a job.

Funny that the goal right now is not to lose rather than to win

it's only turning 50/50s into 60/40s. is there any time reverse technique for minesweeper? really need it a lot

That's not at all how I played the game. I would start off by clicking all over the board trying to get as many of the "Zero's" to show up to clear off as much of the board as possible. If I hit a bomb, oh well, at that point I'd only spent 3 seconds playing anyways.

The best strategy is different depending on what you want out of the game. This one is for minimizing lost attempts. If you speedrun, you'll want to take high risks early, so you can get more attempts in a given amount of time. Or you play for mine density and just for fun: I Increase the amount of mines by one after every successful game. I make the best effort to finish every board, saving the guesses for last. (30x24 board, PB 195 mines, WR is 225)

It is 3 am, what am I doing watching a video specifically targeted at it's intended diehard community and why did I finish it all

just click on both of them for 100%

Wait, people start in the corner usually? I literally always do a few random clicks around the center to get some large blobs to start out with, since if I fail, I was only 5 seconds in anyways.

Play this game a lot and I rarely started in the corner and went for the middle. Also if you have played this game a lot you will learn that there are patterns which are helpful.

The best way to break a 50/50 is to say, "how tje hell have i gotten 4 of these bastards?" And click the cool dude in the top middle kf the acreen.

i have a better solution: dont play the classic version

The real way to break 50/50s is to play Kaboom Minesweeper

every click is a 50/50 because there are only two options... you either explode or you don't

Ive never seen these before in any variation of minesweeper i have played. And i dispise them already.

this mans voice is so calming to listen to, he sounds like G-Man explaining how to play minesweeper

I'm going to say it!
50/50s is the result of bad game design!

so... guessing

Buckle up reference

My strategy for avoiding this is to lose on my first click and I'm shockingly good at it

get a boom for your mic please. that or start tagging the video's with ASMR

i will never ever understand minesweeper

My best time was 99 mine in >190 seconds

why click a corner when you can just click a random tile somewhere in the center?

Lore of Minesweeper Opening Strategy: Breaking 50/50s momentum 100

Cue the fastest version of Bach partita 2 I’ve ever heard in the background

nvm I was on x2 speed 😅

OOOhhh my man, you full fill me, its the first video of that i am watching, and i wanted so but to start using math in minesweeper
you have just introduced me to applied math in minesweeper

Is there a strategy for ship placement?

Title is kind of misleading, should specify breaking 50/50s in early/mid game. There is no true way to break end game 50/50s. And tbh, the way shown in the video isn't 100% working to break 50/50s.

My strategy is try all 4 corners at the beginning. If it works, I keep going. If not, I consider it a loss (for the computer, for being an a**!) and play again. 😆

why does the thumbnail go so unironically hard

Well glad i been doing it right all these years....
Like just guess near by, so you at least have a chance to break the 50/50 sooner

I feel that I’m being trolled.

I’m confused. How come progress and bomb chance don’t add up to 100%? What other outcome is there?

How do you use the solver in the description with minesweeper online?

What game is this I'm on mobile

My very last move was a 50/50. Only two squares left and I picked wrong... I get why people would play a no guessing version after that.

So sigma

There's a reason you don't start in the corner...

50/50 Sucks period

50/50 is 100% not 50%

Your voice is relaxing.