'Beyond Tetris' - Minesweeper |
Game Set Watch article from 2007 with a detailed history of old games similar to Minesweeper and a quick introduction to 3BV and World Rankings. |
The most successful game ever: a history of Minesweeper |
Techradar article from 2009 with a short history of Minesweeper in Windows and a discussion of the "Winflower" controversy. |
The little-known world of competitive Minesweeper |
Second Person Shooter interview in 2011 with Aryeh Draeger (1-11-46) about the Minesweeper Community. |
Every step you take: The story of Minesweeper |
Eurogamer article from 2014 interviewing Ian Andrew (who wrote Mined-Out in 1983), Curt Johnson (who wrote PM Mines in 1989) and Damien Moore (who created Authoritative Minesweeper in 2000) about the history of the game. |
Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics |
Detailed analysis of a difficult board. |
Minesweeper Agent |
Statistical analysis of five different approaches to solving Minesweeper. |
Expert Minesweeper Strategies |
Introduction to common patterns. |
How to Player Minesweeper Like a Pro |
Introduction to Minesweeper strategy by Kamil Murański (1-8-32) in PC World magazine. |
China Ranking |
The China Ranking has over 20,000 members and an active community. |
Minesweeper Speedruns |
Leaderboard for Minesweeper replays. |
Richard Kaye's Minesweeper Pages |
Kaye famously published "Minesweeper is NP-Complete" in 2000 and his homepage includes several Minesweeper papers. |
Ian Stewart on Minesweeper |
Stewart explains how it is possible to win $1 million by efficiently solving Minesweeper. |
Colisweeper |
Biological version of Minesweeper using genetically engineered Escherichia coli as mines. |
Scoreganizer |
Online tournaments using the official version Viennasweeper. Register to compete or host tournaments. |
Chezpoor Java Minesweeper |
Online java minesweeper game written in 1997 with over 100 million games played. |
World of Minesweeper |
Online version with monthly rankings, in game purchases, hidden treasure and quests. |
Minesweeper X |
Homepage of official version MSX. A special feature is the "Minesweeper Bugs & Oddities" section. |
Nonosweeper |
Popular version combining nonograms and Minesweeper. |
Microsoft Minesweeper |
The official Minesweeper game in the Microsoft Store. Free download for Windows and XBox. |
Microsoft Minesweeper (Facebook) |
The official Facebook page for Microsoft Minesweeper with daily "Adventure Mode" challenges. |
Minesweeper (Windows Phone) |
The Microsoft Store page for Windows Phone Minesweeper first released 2011-07-12. |
Minesweeper (Windows, all devices)) |
The Microsoft Store page for Windows Minesweeper first released 2012-07-27. |
Microsoft Minesweeper |
Wikipedia page for Microsoft Minesweeper. |
Minesweeper Video Games |
Wikipedia page for the minesweeper genre. |
Minesweeper - The Movie |
CollegeHumor video with over 10 million views. |
Kamil Murański Official |
YouTube video channel of the former World Rank #1 player. |
minesweepergame.com |
Official Discord channel for minesweepergame.com. |
Minesweeper Community |
Popular Discord with dedicated channels for the game and various minesweeper sites. |
Minesweeper RAWVF |
GitHub for the RAWVF project. Code translates videos into other formats. |
Web Minesweeper Player |
GitHub for video player used at saolei.net to play minesweeper videos in the browser. |
Sweeping View |
GitHub for an Arbiter and Viennasweeper video parser written in python. Used by Scoreganizer.net. |
Encyclopedia of Play in Today′s Society |
Encyclopedia entry on Minesweeper (pp390-391). The author clearly read the "Media" page from the Authoritative Minesweeper Wiki! |
Minesweeper Fan Fiction |
Nearly 100 Fan Fiction stories about Minesweeper... |