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#1 MineSweeper - http://www.mine-sweeper.com/
Java implementation with three levels of play, and an online hall of fame, which requires two games with a low time to emphasize skill over luck.
Bomb Hunter - http://www.airplayuk.com/games/bombhunter/
Commercial mobile-phone version of Minesweeper with new tools including probes and a radar.
Crazy Minesweeper - http://www.astatix.com/crazyminesweeper.php
Windows shareware implementation of Minesweeper and a new variation in which new types of mines contribute 2 or 3 to the number seen in adjacent squares.
Dynamite Minesweeper (Dynamine) - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~manning/dynamine.html
A more continuous variation on minesweeper. Free Windows 3.1 implementation.
Hex Minesweeper - http://members.aol.com/hausebill/hexmines.html
Variation on a hexagonal grid. Windows 95 shareware.
Hexatron - http://www.hexatron.com/hex/
Variation of Minesweeper with hexagonal grid. Java applet.
Lady Di's mines - http://www.minesweeper.org/
Java Minesweeper dedicated to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales and her campaign to ban landmines. Includes high scores.
Mines-Perfect - http://www.czeppi.de/english
An improved minesweeper-clone that generates guaranteed-to-be-solvable puzzles (never guess anymore) and has a Murphy's law option (guessing causes failure), more boards, sound, load, save, undo.
Minesweeper for Atari VCS 2600 - http://soeren.informationstheater.de/atari/
Binary and source to a port of the Minesweeper game for the Atari VCS 2600.
MineSweeper3D - http://www.software3d.com/Mines3D/
Windows implementation of minesweeper on the surface of a 3D polyhedron, with challenging new tilings, and many boards to choose from. World records maintained online using encrypted submission. Built-in auto-solver. Demo version available.
Planet Minesweeper - http://www.planet-minesweeper.com/
Contains advice, cheats, rankings, downloads, and a forum. [English and French.]
Programmer's Minesweeper - http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/pgms/
Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Page - http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.W.Kaye/minesw/minesw.htm
Papers about the computational complexity of Minesweeper, namely that the usual game is NP-complete and that an infinite variation is Turing-complete.
The Authoritative Minesweeper - http://metanoodle.com/minesweeper/
World records at all 3 levels, a few tips and cheats, and many links to software and related pages.
The Minesweeper Handbook - http://www.minesweepers.org
This handbook teaches how to play better Minesweeper, taking you from the fundamentals through to advanced concepts.
Truffle-Swine Keeper - http://freenet-homepage.de/hskopp/swinekeeper.html
A minesweeper clone that contains an algorithm to compute the probability that a mine is under a certain field.
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(computer_game)
Encyclopedia article on Minesweeper.
Writings on Minesweeper - http://www.nuprograms.com/minesweeper/
Contains various articles on Microsoft's Minesweeper including randomness, board cycles, first click, and bugs. Extensive experimentation.
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