should we be clicking corners first as well? If you didn't get a big cascade, start a new game and go back to step 1.

'Always click on a corner!' may make sense for 'win this game' players, but what about me and my minesweeper-addicted friends, always competing to get the fastest times, and whose first-click strategies are all approximately: 'I don't care how many games it takes I just want to set a best time.' 'I don't care how long it takes I just want to win this game.' In thinking about this, I realized there are two distinct types of Minesweeper objectives:

15.449% in expert mode), why have I been clicking in the middle all this time? Have I been Doing It Wrong? Seems reasonable, but if clicking corners first yields over three times more 'cascades' than clicking in the middle (49.846% vs. It should be no surprise now that we've walked through the math that it is always best to click in a corner to maximize the chances that a cascade will occur.

Having spent way too many hours playing Minesweeper, I was interested to reach the conclusion of the June 2012 Minesweeper article on DataGenetics: His article was written in response to my posting on Classic Minesweeper. This article was written by Emmett Nicholas, a developer at Stack Exchange in New York City. I'm delighted to share with you the first Guest Posting on my blog.

Minesweeper unblocked