Farcade

Not to brag or anything but I actually learned how to play minesweeper after about 25 year and beat it! Thanks Farcade

I still have no idea how this works. What are the flags for?

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cool, thanks. Played it as a kid, and knew that was what the numbers referred to, just never had a clue about the flags. Cheers!

Flags are so you can keep tabs of where you think the mines are.

The numbers are telling you how many mines around that specific square, so you kind of work through process of elimination based of the numbers on the squares as to where the mins are