Kioria's 2Cents

 In this second post in the series, we are going to look at two and its patterns. Let us jump into it. 2-2 from the corner If you see this pattern, it should be pretty straight forward. You have a two at the corner so it must mean that there are two mines from that corner going upwards. 2-3-2 Pattern This is a no brainer. As long as there is three in the middle of twos and only touches the squares on one side. 2-3-3-2 Pattern This is the same case as the above but the differences are four mines instead of three and an extra three in the pattern. The principle remains the same. Thank you for reading all the way to the end. I hope this blog post has shed some light in terms of understanding the patterns of minesweeper. If you would like to see this and more patterns in action, you can check out the video below.

By the end of this blog series, you should be able to play minesweeper at Novice level. Minesweeper is all about pattern recognition and effective chording . The rest is just practice and as they say, practice makes perfect.  The first part of the series will tackle the one part and its combinations, the next one will be two and its combinations and so forth. If you would like to see all the patterns at once, you can check out the video at the end of this blog post. Patterns 1 at the corner 1 at corner Where there is 1 and it is at a corner, there is a mine there as you can see in the image above. This is a very common pattern and you will see it a lot. It will really help open up the game very fast once you become effective at chording it. 1-1-1-1 from the bottom 1-1-1-1 The third one from the bottom always has no mine. The first two squares have a one point to them. This means there is a mine between the two squares but we don't know which one. Logically, the third one can'...

I have heard the old saying of investing in real estate, land, physical businesses basically hard assets. I have discussed with many people regarding this and it always points back to one thing. The hard assets make you paper rich but not liquid. On paper, you have money but if I ask you to give me one million on the spot, you would have to sell one or two properties. This is why I decided for foreseeable future, I will get wealthy online.  Digital Ocean of Opportunities There are so many opportunities on the internet and the great thing is that you can do them from anywhere in the world. I like that freedom because I want to be travelling a lot in future and an easy way to do that is to make your money online. If there is one thing that Covid-19 has taught us is that you can work remotely, make more money and still get to enjoy yourself. Going out are the strict 9 to 5 jobs as companies are now considering hybrid working modes that involve both remote and going to the office. Liqu...

We have all being there. A situation arises where we have to come up with some money to sort out a given problem. Be it a hospital bill you need to settle, car got a puncture and need replacement or you got fired and don't know how you will pay the bills. You think of how to raise the money fast and quickly find yourself downloading Branch, Okash etc to borrow some money. What if there was a better way to handle such situations? To have a go to source when things get back. Here comes Emergency Fund . What is an emergency fund?  Investopedia  defines it as money stashed away that people can use in times of financial distress. Having an adequate emergency fund saves you the headache and hussle of paying bills at such times. So how do you go about creating one? Save Set aside a given amount of money every month to fuel the Emergency fund. This can be 10 -30% of your income but it shouldn't be less than 10%. Depending on the nature of emergencies, you can estimate a given range w...

Aftermath of Njaanuary Being 'broke' should be your modus operandi this year. Being 'broke' means you have the money but you rather save and invest it than spend it. It is putting away most of your money around 80% if you can, leaving you with only 20% to work with. You will realize that staying frugal will be very easy. You have no money so you won't spend any. Doing this long enough will make it automatic to spend only 20% of your income. After a while, you will find that you have saved most of the money you have earned. Money x Money x Money 8th Wonder of the world, compounding Now for the money you have saved, what you don't want is for it to sleep in the bank. Personally, I usually have less than 7k in my account. I like putting that money to work by buying shares in the NSE. The key to wealth is to make your money make more money and let it continue ad infinitum. It is like having 2 goats and the goats have 3 kids, the kids grow up to become goats and ...

 Have you ever wanted to read many books, watch videos and actually apply what you learn? Or have you read a lot of books and can't remember what you read? In the past, I used to read a lot of books, watch a lot of videos but if you ask me a week later what I learnt, I couldn't tell you. Over time, I realized I was wasting time and energy consuming information while not extracting the most from it. I decided to develop and use a framework that enables me to learn fast, apply what I learnt and solve a given problem I have at the moment. The framework I developed is called The R.E.A.D Framework (Trademark pending).  The framework is broken down into four parts, namely Research , Extract , Apply and Discard . Research This is involves sitting down and looking up the information be it in print form, video form or audio. I find it is better to read a hard cover book as it involves the brain more as compared to reading a pdf or listening to audio version. Moreover, when you read a ...

  The Bible states that the The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding . It is then no surprise that Solomon asked for wisdom. I think that the Lord was so impressed with this that He gave Solomon more riches on top of giving him wisdom. Why Wisdom? You only get wisdom after applying the knowledge you have gained over and over again, finetuning it every time, removing the useless and keeping the useful. So when Solomon asked for Wisdom, in essence, he was bypassing all that effort  and immediately ending at the goal. If it were any other person, they would have asked for riches, knowledge, land etc Companies like   Kiwi Co are awesome because they are focused on the application of knowledge through fun projects. The great about them is that they start off with kids in their young ages so kids grow up building awesome projects and learning way faster than learning just the theory of it. I like watching YouTube conte...

  We have all seen the Forbes list since time immemorial where the richest people on earth are ranked. For along time, Bill Gates was the reigning champion of the being the wealthiest person on earth. However, he has been overthrown by the King of E-commerce, Jeff Bezos , thanks to his trillion- dollar company, Amazon. In my opinion, Jeff Bezos may be the richest person on earth on paper but Bill Gates still reigns supreme when it comes to wealth accumulation and diversification, here’s why. Rich on paper Most of Jeff Bezos's "wealth" is from evaluation of his Amazon stock prices. The higher they are, the richer he is. However, he can't actually buy things using stocks which would mean he has to sell them and am sure as hell he doesn't want to that. So how does Bezos afford luxury items? He is able to liquidate his stocks giving him a few billions. However, he cannot liquidate at a fast rate as that would signal he has lost faith in his company and would mak...

What lays ahead in your future? Is it greatness or mediocrity? Here is a short 5 question test that will reveal if you are destined for a life of greatness or a life of mediocrity and obedience. Do you have an emotional attachment to hyper reality?   Hyper reality is something you perceive as real and substantive but it actually isn't. It is more of a cultural mirage or a simulation of reality where the simulation is so effective that it becomes a part of your life. Now the best example of hyper reality is the concept of Monday through Friday . This is a cultural hyper reality that has been normalized to institute order and obedience with the presumption of course is that Monday through Friday is for work and Saturday and Sunday is for play. The truth is, Monday is no different than Saturday. There is no reason for the existence of Monday through Friday except to condition you into a system of economic slavery. As far as having an irrational emotiona...

There is a BIG difference between frugal and cheap. Many confuse the two and mistake one for the other. When you’re frugal, you care about what value a certain product/service is bringing to your life and use money as a tool to get them while when you’re cheap, you only think about the cost of the item and not the value it brings. There are a couple of differences between the two and below I have given a brief comparison. Value vs Cost The people who are frugal care about what value they get from using products/services while those who are cheap care about the cost regardless of the value. The cheap will prioritize getting the cheapest available product which often delivers poor quality and end up spending more in fixing them and maintenance. For example, if you buy a cheap China phone like Sumsung which works for the first few days then stops. So, you end spending more fixing the cheap phone than you would have buying a great Samsung that will serve you for y...

Every human being on the planet me, you, your parents, your children, your grandparents. Every single one of us has a mathematical equation attached to our back you can't see it but it is there and it is different for everybody. No one is immune from this equation just like no one is immune from breathing air or drinking water. Think of it like an invisible backpack that is holding a bunch of variables and those variables create your equation. More importantly, you control the variables that are in your backpack and how they formulate your equation. So what is this mathematical equation that everyone has. It's called your Wealth Creation Equation (WCE) , more specifically it is how you earn income and generate wealth. WCE =Rate of pay per hour x (hours worked – taxes). If you're unemployed and you don't make money, your wealth creation equation is simply 0 . Now let's assume you have a job at Java making Ksh 1,000 an hour. Congratulations you...

  There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty – Proverbs 14:23 Everyone wants to be wealthy, fit and happy. It’s good to dream big and wish for the best for yourself. However, most people stay dreaming and few set out to achieve their goals. People are focused on the event instead of the process. Everyone admires how Usain Bolt broke 10 second barrier and set a world record but not many talk about the process of how he got there. A more recent example, everyone was Team Kipchoge and applauded him for setting the marathon world record and achieving 1:59. Many talked about his success, few talked about the process. If you go to YouTube, videos of his process and videos of him actually breaking the record are very different. The latter has way more views than the former. Why? Because people focus on the event instead of the process .     ARE YOU GOING TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS? The sad truth is that not all of us will ac...