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Tangentially related - there was a conspiracy theory making rounds in early 90s that not only Windows Minesweeper was allocating mines as you played, it also ri
by huhtenberg 14y ago
Tangentially related - there was a conspiracy theory making rounds in early 90s that not only Windows Minesweeper was allocating mines as you played, it also rigged the game in its favor. That is, if you were opening a tile that may or may not have a mine, it'd be more likely to see a mine there than not see it. Allegedly, this was backed by a statistics research that some people did. I've never seen that research, but the game did feel unfair when it came to random poking around the mine field.
- Someone 14y agoI remember seeing that debunked, but cannot find that now. What I can find is http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Main_Page http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Main_Page. Those guys aren't aware of this, and claim to see games repeated (http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Dreamboard http://www.minesweeper.info/wiki/Dreamboard). That debunks the theory.