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2 mines left, and this is supposed to be No-guess.

However, it seems that there can be two answers to this - 

(A) The top square of the top pair and the top square of the bottom pair, can both be mines.

(B) The bottom square of the top pair and the bottom square of the bottom pair, can both be mines.

But then this is not really guess free, is it ?

(Note - I did go with option (A), and it proved to be right. But my original question still stands).

What am I missing ?

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[–] ccunning 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Unless I’m missing something…

Tap for spoiler…I think column 3; row 6 holds the answer.

[–] Alexstarfire 15 points 2 months ago
[–] DeadNinja 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bang on !

I don't know how I missed that. But thanks for pointing that out !

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you missed it because of the "highlight unsolved numbers" option, which greys out numbers that have all their mines even if the rest of the squares aren't all open. I recommend you turn that off.

[–] DeadNinja 3 points 2 months ago

I did that just now, and it certainly seems to help ! Thank you kind stranger !

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

The set I circled shows which square is safe, determining the mines for the other areas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

You have a 4 with 4 marked landmines around it, but you didn't click the 5th adjacent tile

[–] expatriado 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

used to play that game 20+ years ago, idk if they made it guess-free now, but back then i would encounter this from time to time, at that that point it was about chances, in this case looks like 50/50

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah they make guess-free versions now. It's much more fun when you know that you're too stupid to finish it and it's not simply impossible! In a normal version OP would have probably guessed one at random fairly quickly, but here OP kept thinking "what am I missing?".