Before we proceed any further, we will note some additional details about the game board. At the upper left of the game board is a backwards counter. This counter starts at the total number of mines for the level (40 in the case of Intermediate), and then subtracts one for every mine flagged during play.

If, at the end of the game, you have negative one, you've flagged too many cells! You will have to go back and review your flags, and remove the one that was incorrectly placed. That cell will have to be cleared before the game will end.

At the upper right hand corner of the game board is the time counter, which counts the number of seconds elapsed since the first cell was cleared. The counter can only go to 999 seconds.

As an additional detail…if you right click on a flag, it will change to a question mark. I've never had any use for the question marks, and will not refer to them in this handbook. This feature can be turned off under the Game menu.

Next >