Posts about minesweeper

Let's play Minesweeper in Python. In this post we will treat Minesweeper as a constraint satisfaction problem and use common algorithms like constraint propagation and backtracking search to mimic logic we would use to play the game as humans.

In the next couple of posts we're playing Minesweeper in Python. You may be familiar with it since it probably can be found on your nearest computer. First we need to generate a board - that's this post - and then in the next, we will play the game.