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by _fp5w 2077 days ago
Ouch, bad luck! Incidentally, that's why the 'instant restart' option got put in. Had my alpha tester growl at me over it.

Thanks, that's already in the works and I'll put in an option for a safe first click. Wrote more about this to another person here, but suffice it to say I'm trying to shift the entire board's biggest randomly generated hole to your first click instead of (re)generating the board with an artificial hole. Because I don't want to tamper with RNG, and I'm a fool. This is the harder overcomplicated way of doing it, so it's taking some time, but it'll be in the next update.
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Joeri 2077 days ago
Just swap the mine with any randomly chosen empty tile, no need to regenerate the board.
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_fp5w 2077 days ago
Hmm. Good thinking. But in case your first click lands in a dense field, that method won't cut a notch in the fabric for you to chisel at. Like a dummy, I'm taking the waiter-pulling-tablecloth-off approach here, but lets see if I get stuck on it.
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cableshaft 2077 days ago
If you read up on classic Minesweeper, that's what they do, is if your first click is a mine it relocates it to the first open spot off the top left corner.

It's also why you shouldn't click in the top left corner in the game if you're hoping for a good cascade, because you're less likely to get one.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180618103640/http://www.techus...

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