Classic Minesweeper

To start, left click any tile on the board. It is generally recommeneded that you always start in a corner to get the best start possbile, but in my example I started in the middle, it should also be noted that each game of Minesweeper is random, and yours will never look like the example game I have shown.

The number that appears is the number of mines directly adjacent to the tile that the number is in. In this example, the 8 adjacent tiles around the 1 tile, must contain 1 mine. The number of mines on the board are located on a counter in the top left.

Left clicking the tile below and to the right reveals a blank tile also known as a zero, which clears all other connected zeros on the board, and reaveals numbered tiles. Note that mine placements are random, not all tiles one below and to the right of a one will be blank, it just so happened that this one was.

Taking a look at this section over here we see four 1 tiles. Starting on the top corner, remember that a tile with a 1 in it can have only 1 mine adjacent to it, and as there is only one available tile that means it must be the mine, right click to mark it with a flag.

Going down two tiles and to the left, to the 1 tile with the flag to its top-right diagonal and a blank tile to its right and bottom-right diagonal. The flag fufills the conditions of all the ones in that corner.

The bord will now look like this.

Draw your attention to the number tiles on the bottom that are in the: 1 2 2 1 formation. This is a common pattern, and there are always mines directly touching the sides of the tiles, in this case, there is one mine below both twos.

Clearing those mines results in this.

Can you solve the remaining tiles in the bottom of the board?

The board should now look like this

The long line of ones in the top left should be easy to solve, as when there is a one in a corner with a blank tile adjacent to its diagonal, that means it is a mine, and thus creates a starting point to clear from. Solve that line of ones.

The board should now look like this

Looking at the counter in the top left you can see that there are only two mines left.

There are three unclicked tiles remaining, two of those must be a mine, notice there is a 1 above a 2 with a 1 below that, this is another common pattern, starting from the very right-bottom diagonal 1 there is only one tile boardering it, so it must be a mine. Going up to the 1 above that, it has 2 tiles boardering it, so the one that is not a mine can not be a mine, so it can be cleared.

Clearing those mines will automatically mark the remaining tile, winning you the game.