Good free minesweeper game?

[Tom430]

I used to have an ipod touch with a very good minesweeper game (Minesweeper Q by Spica), but now have an android touchscreen phone. I have tried a few minesweeper games on the Google Play store, but was incredibly disappointed in all of them.
So basically, I have four requirements for a solid minesweeper game:

- It must be free
- There needs to be a flagging mode, or any way of placing flags with one tap, not a long press
- The first touch can never be a mine
- There must be an 'expert' mode (24x24 squares with 99 mines)

Does anyone know if a game that fills all four requirements exists?

 

[mikedt]

Don't know how you can place flags with one tap, because one tap is usually used to open the squares. So it's usual to long-press to place flags in touch-screen minesweeper games, or maybe double-tap.

"The first touch can never be a mine", may not be possible, because any square can contain a mine chosen at random...that's standard minesweeper. LOL

There's one just called "Minesweeper" on F-Droid, it's got expert modes and is completely free. I only recommend that particular one, because it's open source and so it doesn't contain any spyware or ad payloads, unlike many of them.

 

[Poopman247]

Don't know how you can place flags with one tap, because one tap is usually used to open the squares. So it's usual to long-press to place flags in touch-screen minesweeper games, or maybe double-tap.

"The first touch can never be a mine", may not be possible, because any square can contain a mine chosen at random...that's standard minesweeper. LOL

There's one just called "Minesweeper" on F-Droid, it's got expert modes and is completely free. I only recommend that particular one, because it's open source and so it doesn't contain any spyware or ad payloads, unlike many of them.

So I just wanted to correct a couple of incorrect things you've said.

Flagging with a single touch if called quick flag mode. It has been around for some time and basically what it lets you do is single tap to create flags, and hold down the button to open up new boxes. You can then click on existing numbers to open all available surrounding boxes as long as bombs have been designated by flags. Expert and veteran minesweepers very rarely have to open new boxes and mostly spend their time creating flags. This is why most people prefer quick flag mode.

As for the second error in your statement, you said that picking on a first box can randomly be a bomb and that is standard minesweeper. This is actually incorrect, as the original minesweeper on Windows never allowed the first click to be a bomb and almost 99% of minesweepers out there right now do not allowed to first click to be bombs. That is unless the game is poorly programmed.

I just wanted to put this out there so that you don't continue to spread misinformation.

That being said I have found that Minesweeper deluxe by simply games has every feature the original poster requested with an acceptable ad system.

 

[fshare]

thank you

 

[Realistastic]

Check out Minesweeper GO on android.