Windows comes (came?) with Minesweeper; Mac OS X does not (at least not in the version I have). I wanted to play Minesweeper, so I wrote a program to do so. This was back in 2006... now, in 2014, I've gotten around to updating the program and fixing some bugs and putting it on the website. (I also have Solitaire and Spider Solitaire lying around somewhere...)
This program has been tested on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and Mavericks (10.9). I have a version for 10.4 somewhere, if anyone wants it... (Note: This program is not signed. You may have to right-click the program and click Open.)
Download Minesweep 1.2.1 (includes source code; 341KB compressed, 1.3MiB uncompressed)
Features
By default, Minesweep works a lot like the version of Minesweeper that came with Windows XP (and it has the same difficulty settings). However, there are some other features, some of which can make the game easier if you enable them:
- You can choose whether the first square you click can have a mine (meaning you can lose instantly), not have a mine (you never lose instantly), or have no mines around it (meaning you have more meaningful amount of information at the start of the game).
- You can choose to allow a certain number of mistakes, essentially extra lives, meaning that you don't lose the first time you click a mine
- You can choose to have it display the number of unflagged mines around each square, rather than the total number of mines
- Microsoft's version allows you to uncover all unflagged squares surrounding a square if the number of flags is right; this program has that, and also allows you to flag all the squares surrounding a square, if the number of uncovered mines is right. You can also do either of those for all squares on the board at once, though there is a 10-second time penalty for doing that.
See also: known issues
Help
This is a copy of the help included with the program (in the Help menu).