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Excel Minesweeper

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This program was written by me. It started out as a fairly simple implementation of the minesweeper program, which did only two things:

  1. Sets the mines, without putting one in the upper left hand corner (because I always want a place to start), and
  2. Pasting the formula to let you know how many surrounding cells have mines

After starting this website and posting this program, I finally got around to adding a recursive code call that allowed the macro to "turn over" every cell surrounding a cell with zero mines. Because let's face it, that is the coolest part of playing minesweeper. And it is annoying to have to turn over the cells one at a time.

At some future point I will program it to allow a variable sized playing field.

The program started as a pure Excel creation, where I literally copied and pasted the formula that now reveals the number of surrounding mines. A more sophisticated VBA programmer (such as I sort of am, now) would have left the minefield entirely in a VBA array, but what the heck, it works.

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This version of the program was written by Meir Bogot. Cool interface, in that you can run the game off just the mouse.

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