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Minesweeper
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OverviewAI-generated
Microsoft Minesweeper is a single-player puzzle and strategy game published by Microsoft. The title has been released on PC (Microsoft Windows) and iOS platforms. Different sources list varying release dates for the game, including 1989, 1990, and April 6, 1992. The game is rated "Everyone 10+" by the ESRB.
Community reception varies across platforms. One database assigns a rating of 3.91, while another records a score of 69 based on 98 ratings. The subject has 12,734 social media followers and is referenced by 64 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, RAWG, IGDB, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Game data
- Released
- 1992-04-06
- User rating
- 3.91 / 5
- Genres
- Strategy, Puzzle
- Platforms
- PC, iOS
- ESRB
- Everyone 10+
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.
- Released
- 1990
- Genres
- Puzzle
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Single player
- Publisher
- Microsoft
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Encyclopedic overview
A completed expert game of KMines, a free and open-source variant of Minesweeper
Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) dispersed throughout the board. The objective is to clear the board without detonating any mines, using clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. Variants of Minesweeper have been made that expand on the basic concepts, such as Minesweeper X, Crossmines, Minesweeper Plus, and Minehunt. Minesweeper has been incorporated as a minigame in other games, such as RuneScape and Minecraft's 2015 April Fools update.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Minesweeper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.