[PeterisP]

> backed myself into a corner a couple of times and triggered "just gotta guess" choices

At least for me sometimes a situation that looked like "just gotta guess" was actually solvable by knowing the total number of remaining mines, as one choice in the "guess" would imply more mines than the other.

[leni536]

Once I had a field where the last place to uncover was completely surrounded by mines, revealing the digit 8 underneath.

[googlryas]

Isn't it known how many mines are on the board, so that is not actually a problem since you could count that all of the exposed/marked mines == total # of mines?

[leni536]

Sorry, it was meant as an example for that, not as a counterpoint. I did solve the field without guessing, so it wasn't a problem.