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  Minesweeper (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Minesweepers are equipped with mechanical or influence sweeps to detonate mines.
Minesweepers are in many cases complementary to minehunters, depending on the operation and the environment.
A minesweeper is in particular better at clearing an area of a large number of relatively simple mines—for example towing a wire sweep to cut loose floating contact mines or an electric loop with a powerful electric current to detonate magnetic mines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minesweeper_(ship)   (462 words)

  
 Minesweeper (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because of Minesweeper's relation to mathematics here, it is mentioned in the Clay Mathematics Institute's unofficial description of one of the Millennium Prize problems, namely whether complexity class P equals NP.
Some Windows versions of Minesweeper have a cheat mode that uses the top-left pixel of the display to signal the presence or absence of a mine under the cursor.
Hex Minesweeper - Free Minesweeper with a hexagonal grid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minesweeper_(computer_game)   (3014 words)

  
 Clay Mathematics Institute
The computer game is Minesweeper, which is included in Microsoft's Windows operating system, and involves locating hidden mines on a grid by making guesses about where they are located and using clues provided by the computer.
There's more to Minesweeper electronics than this — for example, we need to be able to bend wires, split them, join them, or make them cross without connecting.
The upshot is that solving the Minesweeper Consistency Problem is algorithmically equivalent to the SAT problem, and is thus NP-complete.
www.claymath.org /Popular_Lectures/Minesweeper   (2085 words)

  
 How to Play Minesweeper
Minesweeper is an excellent game, which can only be solved by logic and computational power, plus a bit of luck.
Minesweeper also has a timer, which times the game up until 999 seconds, which is 16 minutes and 39 seconds.
On older versions of Minesweeper, there is a way to cheat by holding down the left key of the mouse and looking at the upper left corner of the grid.
www.ishipress.com /mineswee.htm   (5062 words)

  
 Minesweeper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Minesweeper (ship), military ship used to destroy naval mines
Minesweeper (band), Punk group based in Nottingham, UK.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minesweeper   (101 words)

  
 Minesweeper
She conducted minesweeping exercises and supported the training efforts of the Mine Warfare School at Yorktown, Va. On three occasions-once each in 1948, 1950, and 1951-she did tours of duty with the Naval Mine Countermeasures Station, located at Panama City, Fla. On 2 September 1951, she departed Charleston, S.C., for the Mediterranean Sea.
While she was deployed with the 6th Fleet, she conducted more minesweeping exercises and visited many of the famous ports in the area.
Following minesweeping exercises along the southeastern coast of the United States and in the Caribbean, she entered the yard at Savannah Machine and Foundry Co. on 29 June 1954 for repairs.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Vista/1507/Minesweeper.htm   (858 words)

  
 Minesweeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I, however, have a different time-waster on my agenda, and it can quickly be summarized in one word: Minesweeper.
I have become so unbelievably good at Minesweeper that I have attracted the attention of many an old lady in my office.
I am so very good at Minesweeper (or "sweeps", as us hardcore players call it) that I am thinking about permanently putting it on my resume.
www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca /Issues/mn7804/minesweep.html   (428 words)

  
 Windows Games - Minesweeper, Solitaire, etc.
Windows Minesweeper is a software game which is included in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
Minimize all windows except Minesweeper, as you move your mouse cursor over each of the squares in minesweeper you should notice the first pixel on the top left portion of the screen change to fl.
Minesweeper has moved off the screen and I am unable to move it.
www.computerhope.com /games/games/wingames.htm   (834 words)

  
 Gaming -> Minesweeper
The occurrence of identical Minesweeper boards suggests that Minesweeper records are unlikely to improve, as everyone is playing the same boards over and over again.
Occurrence of identical Minesweeper boards is not just a consequence of poor board generation, but is related to playing habits as well.
Minesweeper gameplay has more depth than you think, read on to find out more.
www.techuser.net /index.php?id=11   (153 words)

  
 Spb Minesweeper - Products - Spb Software House
Minesweeper is a very popular and well-known logic game.
Many people were disappointed that Minesweeper was not a standard built-in Pocket PC application.
Our Minesweeper game will be a worthy addition to your games collection.
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com /products/minesweeper   (208 words)

  
 Richard Kaye's minesweeper page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For minesweeper addicts, this is either very good news, or very bad news (it depends on your point of view).
A companion paper, with some interesting Minesweeper configurations and puzzles is available here in PDF format.
You can read about it and in particular how infinite minesweeper configurations can mimic arbitary computer programs in mt (slightly more technical) paper which is recently available in pdf format here.
web.mat.bham.ac.uk /R.W.Kaye/minesw/minesw.htm   (465 words)

  
 Minesweeper (1943)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Minesweeper" is a somewhat melodramatic but interesting World War II drama that has a pretty good story and that also takes a look at one of the less familiar aspects of the war.
It all builds up to a climactic sequence of events that, while rather melodramatic, is action-packed and rather surprising.
Arlen's ship is a minesweeper, and the film incorporates some interesting details on the job that such ships had to do in keeping shipping lanes and harbors free of mines.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0036161   (378 words)

  
 launch Mine Sweeper
Back when I first wrote this Minesweeper clone, I was looking for a good web-based Mine Sweeper game that I could play and perhaps "borrow" for my own personal home page.
The html form-based Minesweeper needed to do a form submit every time the user would click on a square...
After all this research, I felt that I could write a js Minesweeper that could improve upon the versions currently available at the time (the java-applet versions were already very good, so I didn't bother with them).
thunder.prohosting.com /~amito/cgi-bin/launchmines.html   (932 words)

  
 MineSweeper analysis and strategy
MineSweeper, MasterMind, MOO (see the POTM contest) are instance of a class of games where -->
The Oz Minesweeper, by Raphael Collet: another solver, written in OZ/Mozart.
It is very different from other minesweeper games because it does not divide the world into neat little boxes and give you exact numbers of neighboring mines.
fvdp.homestead.com /files/msw_index.html   (624 words)

  
 Minesweeper 3D
Minesweeper 3D is a three-dimensional, free, open-source remake of the classic Minesweeper game, written for GNU/Linux.
Minesweeper 3D uses OpenGL to efficiently render minefield grids.
Note: When building is complete, Minesweeper 3D is not runnable from this location.
www.xs4all.nl /~weegen/Minesweeper3D   (630 words)

  
 ABC-Dir: Minesweeper
Windows shareware implementation of Minesweeper and a new variation in which new types of mines contribute 2 or 3 to...
Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is...
This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.
www.abc-directory.com /view/minesweeper   (141 words)

  
 MineSweeper3D - 3D version of Minesweeper, the classic game/puzzle. The ultimate version of Minesweeper!
Since there are no "edges" to the board, you don't get as many ambiguous situations, where it is impossible to know what to do next.
Such situations were more common in the original Minesweeper because at the edges, tiles weren't surrounded by neighbours so there wasn't enough information.
The original Minesweeper had sound effects, but they were too annoying to listen to, beeping every second!
web.aanet.com.au /robertw/Mines3D   (1102 words)

  
 Minesweeper Top 50   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There are lots of sites dedicted to minesweeper on the net (like this one), which are the result of dedicated sweepers trying to do their bit to popularize the game we love.
This is undoubtedly the result of sincere dedication and a lot of hard work and determination for one thing: Minesweeper, that tiny little game that we all take for granted (not us 'sweepers) which comes bundled with Windows.
I can go on and on but since modesty is one of my better virtues I'll now tell you some of the lesser interesting things about me. I'm currently in my senior year at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India) and will major in Aerospace Engineering in Spring 2001.
www.geocities.com /TimesSquare/Zone/4713   (324 words)

  
 Minesweeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Minesweeper is a re-write of the famous xbombs.
It is also know as Minesweeper distributed with MS Windows.
You can specify the size of the board by simply giving different values for the height and the width attributes for the applet tag.
nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de /~ingo/java/mines   (249 words)

  
 Widget Watch: Minesweeper - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
I knew a guy once who could finish the large minefield in Minesweeper in under 2 minutes on the hardest setting without setting off a bomb nine times out of ten.
I love Minesweeper too....but I'm hoping for one to come out that is a little more advanced in looks.
Of course they are many cheats in Minesweeper, but there is now a clone of Minesweeper which allows to record videos and also provide proofs of records.
www.tuaw.com /2005/05/11/widget-watch-minesweeper   (1200 words)

  
 Minesweeper is NP-complete
In an article of the Symbolic Journal of Computation, Richard Kaye proposed a translation from a propositional logic formula into a minesweeper configuration, such as asking the question 'is there a solution to this formula ?' is the same as asking 'is this minesweeper configuration possible ?'.
Anyway, translating a logical formula into a minesweeper configuration is a bit of madness, because the minesweeper configuration is much bigger than the formula, and solving this configuration instead of the formula would be the act of some crazy mind.
I know no program solving a minesweeper configuration able to handle a 2,099,200,686 bytes long file (by the way I know no program solving a minesweeper configuration).
sed.free.fr /complex/mines.html   (1350 words)

  
 JMine2 - Java Minesweeper
JMine2 is port to Java of the popular Windows game Minesweeper (or Winmine) - with a facelift and some new features.
The mine will not be regarded as flagged, but you will still have some visual indicator that it is probably a mine.
JMine / Minesweeper has the potential to be addictive.
www.reed.edu /~mcphailb/applets/jmine2   (1145 words)

  
 Crazy Minesweeper - download best minesweeper game. Professional minesweeper download   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If you consider all mines are found around a numbered square, uncover the remaining squares around it by clicking the numbered square with the middle or left and right mouse buttons simultaneously.
The object of the minesweeper game is to find all the mines on the playing field without uncovering any of them.
Minesweeper can be a fun way to pass the time, but it can also get old very quickly.
www.astatix.com /crazyminesweeper.php   (520 words)

  
 Minesweeper - Nu Programs
If you want to hear me try to defend my temporary obsession with Minesweeper, read this.
Here I talk about the tendency of Minesweeper to fall into a specific cycle of boards.
Due to the boards cycles the idea is born of a dream board, a board easier to complete than all others.
www.nuprograms.com /minesweeper   (147 words)

  
 Paul Hambleton's Minesweeper Strategy, Logic & AI Blog
It has been a good day, I have crossed more things off my list than I added on, which is good.
I have fixed a few minor bugs on the probabilties, also added a bit of validation on the dragging to stop out of bounds exceptions, etc..
It is now possible to select an area of the board and the computer will calculate the probabilities of those squares being mines..
www.paulwh.com /pwh/minesweeper   (997 words)

  
 Spb Minesweeper Game on PocketGear.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Summary: Spb Minesweeper is a Pocket PC version of the popular logic game.
Many people were disappointed when discovered that Minesweeper is not a standard built-in Pocket PC application.
Spb Minesweeper will be a worthy addition to your games collection.
www.pocketgear.com /software_detail.asp?id=4249&associateid=5   (209 words)

  
 Hex Minesweeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hex Minesweeper is just like traditional Windows Minesweeper except instead of using a map of four sided squares it uses a map of six sided hexes!
The objective of Hex Minesweeper is to locate all the mines in the mine field as quickly as possible.
Hex Minesweeper and this web page were written by me - William D. Hause.
members.aol.com /hausebill/hexmines.html   (124 words)

  
 Puzzle Central - Minesweeper Games
You start from the center and have a limited time to reach the corners and switch off the bombs.
The Crazy Minesweeper game area consists of three mine counters and the playing field.
The object of the game is to find all the mines on the playing field without uncovering any of them.
puzzles.cleversoul.com /sw_mines.html   (347 words)

  
 Spb Minesweeper - Products - Spb Software House
The object of the game is to locate all the mines on the field by uncovering all the cells that do not contain mines.
«Minesweeper is another faithful adaptation of the game we all know and love on the desktop.
Spb again makes good use of the Pocket PC screen real estate.
www.spbsoftwarehouse.com /products/minesweeper?en   (208 words)

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