Not quite true, since Minesweeper will simply not allow you to click on a mine on your first attempt. It'll highlight the square when you click on it but it'll refuse to uncover it.
In MS Minesweeper it works like this: if you hit a mine on your first click that mine is moved to the top left square, and if that one is occupied it ends up in the square to the right of it and so on. (this is actually good to know when you get a situation where you have to make a guess up in that corner;)
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Not quite true, since Minesweeper will simply not allow you to click on a mine on your first attempt. It'll highlight the square when you click on it but it'll refuse to uncover it.
;)
In MS Minesweeper it works like this: if you hit a mine on your first click that mine is moved to the top left square, and if that one is occupied it ends up in the square to the right of it and so on. (this is actually good to know when you get a situation where you have to make a guess up in that corner