
Rodrigo was impressed by the spotless similarity between Curtis' clone and the Microsoft version, and contacted him to show his probability calculator. The real motivation to start writing Minesweeper Clone effectively came when Rodrigo saw, in the beginning of January 2004, the recently released clone of Minesweeper written by Curtis Bright (Canada), named simply Minesweeper (as of June 2007, the current version is named Minesweeper X). a solver, and in order to accomplish this, he started writing a program able to calculate the probability of finding mines on each square. This made him want to develop a program able to solve boards, i.e. After learning some initial techniques of solving boards with patterns, he realised that the process of solving a board is well-defined and could be transformed in an algorithm. Also displayed is the options window.Įarly in 2003, Rodrigo developed some interest in the game, and started playing Windows Minesweeper more seriously. Version 0.1 beta, Minesweeper Clone's first version.
