
You are given a randomly generated nonogram puzzle and have to solve it as fast as possible without hitting a mine.
Nonosweeper - (Not free) Closely related to minesweeper but with completely different logic.
Individual games are played by yourself but there are many ranking systems to compete on. World of Minesweeper - Online minesweeper with a chat, experience system, achievements, and so on.I have a page of notes on the logic and techniques of playing it. Mamono Sweeper - Minesweeper crossed with an experience and leveling system, where you have to defeat monsters (mines) of varying strengths (values), and the clues give the total strength of nearby monsters.The logic and playing techniques are deep, so I've written a page of notes on playing it.
There are many hundreds of boards to compete on and a list of world records.
Minesweeper3D - (Not free) A version where you can play Minesweeper on the surface of various 3D objects. Has a special feature (although it's defunct for the moment): the ability to play in live, online tournaments through a website called Scoreganizer. ViennaSweeper - The newest of the three, by Christoph Nikolaus and Thomas Kolar. The linked site has a bunch of those skins, and I also have a collection of them. One fun and unique feature is the ability to play with custom graphics, which can add an interesting challenge. Minesweeper X - Relatively simple, small and doesn't need installation. One big feature is a custom Counters window with whatever statistics you want. By Dmitriy Sukhomlynov and Maksim Bashov. Minesweeper Arbiter - The most customizable and very strong on statistics, great if you want to really understand your playing in detail. #Minesweeper download dos windows#
These are Windows only, and all have one standard game mode, but with automatic video recording (in an extremely compressed format), statistics, and several other features that vary by version.
There are 3 official versions allowed for the authoritative ranking on. These are some of the ones I personally think are interesting or worth checking out. There have been a huge number of Minesweeper versions and variations made since the game was invented around 1990.