This is guess-free, and 14 mines left, all under those uncovered squares.

Any thoughts on how to proceed ?

EDIT - never mind. Tried brute force with the hope that the path I choose would be the right one - and lost.

But there’s always a next time mine, lol.

And it was indeed heartening to see the Minesweeper community in Lemmy is not dead.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    The squares around the top left most 4 has 1 chance out of 3 to have a mine. All the others have one chance out of 2 or worse. If you take a chance, I’d take it there.

    Edit: never mind. How did the flag above that 4 get there?

    • DeadNinja@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Because the two covered squares to the left of the “4-with-flag-on-top-of-it” can have only 1 mine (because of the “2” there), which means the “3” needs one more mine, which can only be on top of that “4”.

      At least that’s my reasoning.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I see what you mean. That means that the covered square that is top left of that 4 has 1/2 chance to be a mine. While the other two squares on its right each have 1/4 chance to have a mine in them since they require a 1/2 chance condition for it to be possible for a mine to be in either of those two remaining squares. Edit: legiblity

        Sadly, it appears that only trying one of them successfully will still leave you stuck with 1/2 chance guesses so it doesn’t help much still.

        • DeadNinja@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Bingo. I guess you got my reason behind flagging the square above the “4”.

          But I am still stuck… May be brute force is the only way out…