Minesweeper Thermodynamics

Re:Minesweeper Thermodynamics by oerpli on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:01AM (#45123749)

What would the winrate of a bot doing these calculations be compared to one that doesn't?

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Re:Minesweeper Thermodynamics by OscarCunningham on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:56AM (#45124002)

The bot at https://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/ does these calculations, and has a winrate of 37.8% on expert. I don't know what a more naive bot would achieve.

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Re:Minesweeper Thermodynamics by senfiaj on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:38AM (#45126133)

Is this better compared to an actual expert human?

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Re:Minesweeper Thermodynamics by OscarCunningham on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:00AM (#45126292)

I think the human experts mostly care about speed rather than their average solve percentage. If they're forced to guess then they can just restart if they get it wrong.

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