If they weren't so busy with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs

Perhaps they'd have found this:
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Unexploded-device-floating-in-Puget-Sound-near-13189239.php

Never was a fan. I suspect that trying to sweep real-world mines is actually more reliable and interesting than Minesweeper.

It's ok, but I can no longer play it. My parents (non-gamer types) played it to death (that, Freecell, Sudoku and a couple of memory games).

For some strange reason, psychologically, it turned me off playing it beyond the initial year or two when first it became widely available.

For me, Minesweeper is that incredibly repetitive game my parents never got over and which served to illustrate the generational gap between us. Guess it didn't help that I tried to get them interested in other stuff (various more intricate puzzle games for my father, adventure games for my mother), but it didn't stick.

The game is probably fine. It's just personal baggage I guess.

A little while ago, I found a version for Android called Globesweeper, where the "board" is either a cube with squares or a ball with hexagons and pentagons.

It's a bit fiddly on a phone (though you can zoom in and out), but on a tablet it'd probably be a bit better. It also doesn't bother to check if the correct number of surrounding mines have been marked, and opens up all surrounding unmarked plots.

On the computer, I most commonly play Gnome Mines. I tried KMines, but there was something I didn't like, I think it doesn't support double-click to auto-open surrounding plots.

Wrong kind of mine! :P

Nice game to keep one occupied...

I loved it! A nice way to kill some time before games were so widespread and easy(ier) to get.

A game included on windows by defult (or at least it was on XP, not sure about newer versions).

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game[/url])

Sorry, Wikipedia seems to hate me. XD

Here's an example of the game:
http://www.freeminesweeper.org/minecore.html

Oh, it's still included alright. Free to play ad supported with modernised graphics and an adventure mode. You can pay to remove ads. Yay!

Funny, I can't seem to find it on my Win 8. :/

Recorded as in video!

It's an OK distraction. I played it a lot in the early 90-es during long nights in an observatory while waiting for the camera exposure to finish. But haven't played it anymore in a long, long time.

But mines-perfect looks like a nice clone. Especially the hex grid and the Murphy's Law option. :-)

It's pretty much the only game I play on my phone, which is funny considering how expansive the mobile market is these days compared to an antiquated game like Minesweeper. I tried a 3D version that basically turns the whole board into a cube, but I didn't really like it as much as the traditional version. After all these years I'm still not that great at expert boards, I usually stick to advanced.

It's alright I guess :P Really like the sound effects that started to accompany it in win7, especially the winning sound.

I'm pro-minesweeper (I also love games based on it). Except when it's played on a touchpad or a touchscreen. Minesweeper is mouse business.