There was a Minesweeper variant called Kaboom, where you're playing against a computer that's trying to make you lose. The computer has to comply with all revealed information, but if you ever make a guess, no matter how improbable, it's have over.
There is also Yusuke Endoh's version, where the only thing you do is guess. Computer will automatically mark all the spots where it has enough information to make an inference.
As described, that would lead to a 100% loss rate.
Even if you're allowed to make a guess on an empty board (classic Minesweeper will wait to generate the board until you do, so that your first guess is never a mine), most games end in a 50/50 chance.
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There was a Minesweeper variant called Kaboom, where you're playing against a computer that's trying to make you lose. The computer has to comply with all revealed information, but if you ever make a guess, no matter how improbable, it's have over.
https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
Previous discussion on HackerNews:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875
There is also Yusuke Endoh's version, where the only thing you do is guess. Computer will automatically mark all the spots where it has enough information to make an inference.
https://mame.github.io/minesweeper-spoiled-by-ai/
This reminds me of absurdle:
https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
Or the more evil version: https://dontwordle.com/
As described, that would lead to a 100% loss rate.
Even if you're allowed to make a guess on an empty board (classic Minesweeper will wait to generate the board until you do, so that your first guess is never a mine), most games end in a 50/50 chance.
I also like Mosaic, a variant of Minesweeper: https://www.puzzle-minesweeper.com/mosaic-5x5-easy/