With this, you must imagine where the bombs could be and avoid clicking them. The number indicates the total number of bombs present in the eight adjacent cells. If you click a cell that doesn't contain a mine, the cell will show a number. At the beginning of the game, a certain number of bombs are hidden randomly in the grid. The goal is to discover all the mines hidden in the field without exploding. Due to the protests of some groups, at some point, the mines were replaced by flowers that's why it changed its name to Flower Field.Īs with many brilliant games, the rules are simple, but playing MineSweeper is not so simple.

It was so successful that Microsoft decided to keep it updated, and it was included in all the following versions of Windows, up to Windows Vista.

The game we all know today was written by Robert Donner and Curt Johnson and was included for free in Windows 3.1 in 1990. MineSweeper (also known as Flower Field) is one of the most popular video games ever created.