Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: Hints for beginners Use the marking feature (modifier-click, or just click if you confiqure the game that way) extensively to mark hexes where you know there are mines. Occasionally you will have to take chances but usually you can get far by using logic. For example take this situation: One hex marked with 1 has only one possible neighbor than can be a mine so we mark it Then we can immediately see that the neighbor below marked with must have no other adjacent mines so we know the two neighbors Qf that hex are safe They are marked "ok" in the fiaure (Mark twice.) We can now find another hex that must be a mine, and two that must be safe Now we can safely step on the safe hexes, which will hopefully reveal other secrets A last example: The corner shown right is totally surrounded by mines ...
