Solving Minesweeper Puzzles with Advanced Metalogic
155Using Metalogic in Minesweeper: original minesweeper had guessing, and some variants of minesweeper are no-guessing. In this video I showcase a game that takes this one step further: what if you had to use the fact that no-guessing was a rule, to deduce squares? This is Minesweeper with metalogic.
If you are not familiar with Minesweeper: the goal is to mark all flags (red) and open all safe squares (green). Each number counts how many flags there are in the 8 adjacent cells.
0:00 Intro
1:10 Level 1 - you must make ALL deductions with the current clues, then hit the bell to progress
3:43 Level 2 (no metalogic yet here)
4:23 Level 2 - THE METALOGIC MOMENT
5:48 Level 3 - the board can *never* be in a position where you need to guess
8:30 Level 4 - the concept of 'information needs to travel to resolve guess situations'
13:25 Level 5 - skill test
15:39 Level 6 - don't block dead ends
18:13 Level 7 - advanced propagation
21:47 Level 8 - bigger board, skill test
25:06 Level 9 - the final level, many layers, the most extreme examples of guess-safeness, steps, and ordering
in original Minesweeper, it's possible to be forced to guess. Although there are strategies for reducing luck, sometimes you can't avoid it, except in certain implementations of Minesweeper with no-guessing modes.
This variant takes it one step further, where the puzzle is about making deductions that require *using the fact that no guessing is allowed*, which is metalogic because it is using logic based on outside rules.
Game: https://butcherberries.itch.io/unveiling
features footage from another video, "Minesweeper Opening Strategy: Breaking 50/50s" and various minesweeper online sites
Minesweeper variants playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfwnGFi9Nw0&list=PLg5Ta3CWcYX6ZgFktXQgqkcoXgzAlVuGw
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