As finding mines becomes routine, players can leverage advanced tactics for making mines, such as pressing both mouse buttons on “fully allocated” mine markers to open up all surrounding blocks. All sessions are randomly generated, allowing players to always be on their guard, and develop smart tactics for locating mine. The player can then mark which blocks are hiding the mine, until all blocks are marked or until one misjudged click activates the mine. The classic gameplay mode of Minesweeper is unchanged, allowing players to carefully probe the ground for markers that signify how many hidden mines are hidden in the surrounding blocks. This new and improved version features not only updated visuals and compatibility with touchscreen Windows devices (such as laptops and tablets) but also offers a selection of distinctive gameplay modes.

However, with Windows 8 this popular puzzle app was developed from the ground up as a standalone application that can be downloaded from Microsoft Store. Microsoft Minesweeper is a famous puzzle video game originally created by Curt Johnson IBM's OS/2, that found worldwide popularity when it was ported to Windows OS where it was offered as a pre-installed app for several versions of this operating system.

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