You can see that there are six ways to play: Four basic grids, an “adventure” game variation and a daily challenge. Launch it by going to the search box on the Taskbar and typing in “minesweeper”. ![]() I’ll talk a bit more about it in a moment, but yes, there is a version of Minesweeper included with Windows 10, known as “Microsoft Minesweeper” now and a bit spruced up for the modern OS. Your goal is to identify and flag all the bombs or click and reveal every non-bomb square without a mishap. If you’ve never played, it’s a “find the hidden items” puzzle where you click on squares in a grid to reveal what’s in the square (if it’s a bomb, oops!) and what’s adjacent. The game itself is pretty simple, however, so it turns out that the play – and strategy – hasn’t changed in all those decades. Those were the early days of Microsoft Windows, no question. ![]() ![]() In fact, it was first officially released as part of the “Microsoft Entertainment Pack” way back in 1990, and first included in the standard install of Windows 3.1 back in 1992. Though I suspect more people play Solitaire on their PC, Minesweeper has been a part of the Windows experience almost since the very beginning of the first OS release.
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