3. Minesweeper is a puzzle game, where you try to reveal squares on a grid witho

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3. Minesweeper is a puzzle game, where you try to reveal squares on a grid without ever revealing a mine Squares without mines, when revealed, contain a number 0-8, which tells the player how many mines there are in the squares in the immediate vicinity (in the squares encircling the given square). For decades, it has been bundled with the Windows operating system, but you can find free versions of it in many places if you don't already have it on your computer/device. (And if you've never played it before it might help to give it a try before doing the following questions- here is a link to a Free Browser-based o Some more notes: · if a square has a "flag" in it, that means that we have already deduced that there is a mine in that square. There can be at most 1 mine in any given square An empty revealed square is equivalent to a square with a "O in it-i.e. no mines in the immediate vicinity -Any letters that appear in squares are just names we are giving to the squares so that we can refer to them in the exercises. o For each of the following questions, make sure to give a step-by-step explanation of your answer. You can use ordinary everyday language-there is no "math" required for these problems. o a) Explain why there are mines in squares D and E, and use this to determine for each of squares A, B, and C whether or not there is a mine in that square 1 1 1 2 2 1

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a)
If you consider E...as the neighbour box is opened and it was 1. That means
surrounding 1 mine is there. So definitely E must be mine. And also the box
under E was 2 that means surroundings two mines are there. already we known
E is mine ...so D must be a mine.

then 'C' down neighbour shows as 1 ...as already D was mine...so C and B not
mines.And A is mine since neighbour 1 is shown..

E--->mine
D--->Mine
c---->not mine
b-->not mine
A----mine

b)
first scenario A: left to A declared as 3 that means surroundings 3 mines are there
already two mines(flags are there) so definitely either A or B must be mine

second scenario B : same as above...

third scenario C : as above 2 given ..either A or C must be mine...

so by taking these all cases into considerations..we can conclude A is mine...
and B anc C are not mines...so that all our scenarios holds true.

A----mine
b----not mine
c --- not mine

c)

For A : as left to A was given as 3 ..so that surroundings 3 mines are there...
only above we have one flag...so must A and B are mines

C is empty since above B we have '3' number...already twoo flags avaiable and B is mine
that detected on above scenario.

But for D and E we cant judge....either D or E is flag. On 'E' number '2' was given
already we have one flag..but we dont know second mine...as we have two choices..it is indeterminant.

A----mine
B----mine
C----not mine
D--- cant judge
E---cant judge

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