{"id":35474,"date":"2026-08-17T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35474"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:33:58","slug":"victory-sweet-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35474","title":{"rendered":"Victory! Sweet Victory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last, I have solved <i>Minesweeper<\/i> at the highest difficulty level.  Well, a Linux clone of it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedanken.org.uk\/software\/xbomb\/\">xbomb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot_20260816_151851-1200x682.jpg\" alt=\"The 30x16 grid, solved!\" class=\"alignwide size-fullwidth wp-image-35473\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have come <i>close<\/i>&#8211;two mines to find, and I either slipped up or deduced incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve solved the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>The top right corner, as you might guess, proved to be the tricky place.  I reached a point where I had to make a guess, and when I guessed correctly, everything unraveled easily.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a bit like I did when I solved the 5&#215;5 Rubik&#8217;s Cube.  It&#8217;s done, and I never have to do that again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, I have solved Minesweeper at the highest difficulty level. Well, a Linux clone of it, xbomb. I have come close&#8211;two mines to find, and I either slipped up or deduced incorrectly. This is the first time I&#8217;ve solved the whole thing. The top right corner, as you might guess, proved to be the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35474\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Victory! Sweet Victory!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[5140,4860,5461,5468],"class_list":["post-35474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-minesweeper","tag-xbomb","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}