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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.
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Whenever I got to this situation I get it over immediately … no sense in completing the rest of the board if I only get to have a 50/50 chance on one play.
The biggest rush is in successfully completing two or more of these situations in one board.
Sometimes, it do be like that
Some of the better minesweeper clients have a “Prevent guessing” mode. Otherwise you can accept the 50-50
Extreme dork doing an ackshually alert
This 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.
But the state of the cat is also already determined in a real experiment because it is linked to the outside through air and the walls of the box via vibrations and temperature. Probably even through photons coming off the cat hitting the box. I don’t know if there’s any way to fully disentangle it from the experimenter. This theoretical cat superposition only exists as a thought experiment
Right, it’s meant to extrapolate the idea of two states existing simultaneously from the very abstract mathematical formulas used to express it into something more comprehensible to show the absurdity of the idea.
No, you are wrong. The bomb is always where you click. Source: playing the game.
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Just fence off those two squares forever, and we’ll never talk about it again.
That’s your own fault for not starting from the upper left corner
If you like minesweeper but hate these random picks, I really recommend the Hexcells series. They’re fun puzzle games that can be solved purely with logic. Kind of a cross between minesweeper and sudoku.
Or you can just turn the “no guess” mode on like a regular human.
