Mr_Dr_Oink,

Is schrodinger’s bomb a good joke here? The bomb is not simultaneously on both squares until measured, it is only on one. It doesn’t change or err “spin”

bitwaba,

That’s the joke. It’s a 50/50 choice, yet somehow (it feels like) you get it wrong 100% of the time. So the mine is in superposition being both present and not present under a tile. When you click the tile, you collapse the wave from and the mine appears in the tile you clicked.

son_named_bort,

If it makes you feel any better, it doesn’t matter which one you pick, it’ll be wrong either way.

mathemachristian,

Extreme dork doing an ackshually alertThis is not a case of “Schrödingers cat” because which field is the bomb and which is empty is already determined. The information is present in the memory of the program prior to the observation. Schrödingers cat is a paradox about a quantum superposition where two states exist simultaneously but are collapsed into a definite one by the act of observation. The cats fate is tied to the states of this quantum and therefore prior to observation the cat is both alive and dead, since both states exist simultaneously. It is only after observation that the definite state is determined.

Halvdan,

No, you are wrong. The bomb is always where you click. Source: playing the game.

Technus,

Say what you will about people who play Minesweeper but it’s a fucking rush when you end up in a situation like this.

You have no choice but to take a deep breath and just pick one.

There’s no real consequences to losing but it sure as hell feels like it’s life and death.

ColeSloth,

Yeah, but screw the corner spots. I always click all four corners and like three other random spots before I get into a game.

Daxter101,

Sometimes, it do be like that

Some of the better minesweeper clients have a “Prevent guessing” mode. Otherwise you can accept the 50-50

MrJ199414,

Could you provide me with one of them? I love minesweeper. Would play it religiously, but my frustration at having to play the guessing game. It only made it worse that my win to lose ratio was not based on my own failures but on chance. Also doesn’t matter what it’s for Windows, Linux, or Android.

Daxter101,

My fave, since I play on Android, is Antimine (you can find it in f-droid)

Has a mode where each win, increases the mines by 1, for that sweet sweet sense of pointless progression

Dashi,

Another vote for Antimine. It fills my minesweeper fix

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