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'...