>>102802968The sweeper knows where the mines are at all times.
He knows this because he knows where they aren't.
By counting tiles where they aren't versus tiles where they are,
Or from where they are versus where they aren't (whichever is easier), he obtains an estimate, or "guess."
The minsweeper meta uses guesses to generate predictive commands to drive the sweeper to click a tile where the mines aren't,
and arriving at a tile where they aren't, they now are.
In the event that the tile that he is in is not the tile where the mine wasn't, the game ends, the end being the conversion of the sweeper's position to every known position.
If guessing is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the MM.
However, the sweeper must also know where he was.
The minesweeper meta works as follows:
Because a guess has modified some of the information the sweeper has obtained, he is not sure just where the mines are.
However, he is sure where they aren't (within reason).
He now subtracts where he should be from where he shouldn't, or vice versa, and be differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where he shouldn't be, and where he was,
He is able to obtain the prediction, and it's guess, which is called "luck."
