While writing a wide ranging history of Windows Minesweeper for Boss Fight Books in 2023, I ended up playing many variations of Microsoft beloved original game. Those include versions with hexagonal tiles , versions with weird board shapes , and versions that extend Minesweeper into four dimensions or more , to name just a few. Almost all these variants messed a little too much with the careful balance of simplicity, readability, reasoning, and luck that made the original Minesweeper so addic
