What the heck is the trick to triangles?

[Nukesnipe]

Triangles are supposed to have less guessing, but honest to God I can't get through even a tiny bit of any size triangle without resorting to guessing. Like, look at this (https://i.imgur.com/baa3A0H.jpg), where am I even supposed to start?

Edit: Yes, I know the 3 one is obvious, but I just wanted to grab a quick screencap to illustrate my point.

[Vitamin Ex]

To be honest, the game is mostly guessing. When I first bought it, my first 5 games were unsolvable without guessing before I actually got a game that was all logic. It's not very good. There are other sweeper games on Steam that require no guessing.

[Incandescent Games]

Triangle mode is surounding 12 tiles, all tiles that share a corner. Its veey difrent to normal minesweeper and you can use new tequniques to solve.

This mode requires nearly 0 guessing even on dence globes. (I have never seen a triangle mode guess so if you find.one send a screen shot)

I i will put a full guide out later this week.

[Vitamin Ex]

Originally posted by EMPDragonKing25:

Originally posted by Vitamin Ex:

To be honest, the game is mostly guessing. When I first bought it, my first 5 games were unsolvable without guessing before I actually got a game that was all logic. It's not very good. There are other sweeper games on Steam that require no guessing.

I have been playing for nearly 10 hours now and not one guess has occurred thus far. All these so-called guesses that people are complaining about is more than likely the result of not seeing enough of the board / inexperience.

I've been playing Minesweeper for 20+ years, I know how it works. The developer said themselves that some games require guessing. Are you telling the developer they're wrong?

[Incandescent Games]

Guessing is most common on hex mode, as it has the least conections. The larger the globe and more dende the mines the more statistcally likely it becomes. If you play on low density it is extremely rare even on hex mode.

Saying that I am making a guaranteed solvable mode as its peoples main critasism.

[Nukesnipe]

I understand how triangles work, I just don't see the trick to it. Maybe I'm just a brainlet.

[chaosblade77]

For the picture example, you could start with those 1s.

https://i.imgur.com/a719JL2.jpg

Based on the labeled "working triangle," the three possible adjacent mines are marked as "possible mines." Since you have two adjacent 1s, you can work off that and determine 6 triangles that aren't mines. This is because those 1s will be adjacent to the same mine as the "working triangle," so you can safely uncover any other triangles adjacent to those 1s.

Also, based on the 2 on the left side, and the 1s surrounding it, the mine must be the lowest triangle of the "possible mines." Only one mine can be on the right side of the 2 because of the 1s there, it can't be in the "not possible mine" locations, so the only option left is for it to be the same mine adjacent to the "working triangle."

That's an example of the larger strategy I've worked out while figuring out triangles. Take advantage of the fact a single triangle touches so many other triangles, work out the general area where the mines have to be, then extrapolate from that to determine where mines can't be. Even if you don't immediate work out where those mines are, you'll make progress.

[Incandescent Games]

Made a video tutorial explaining how to play this mode.

https://youtu.be/BLELoK_l5Hk

[Dahn]

Originally posted by Incandescent Games:

Made a video tutorial explaining how to play this mode.

Many thanks for that video, I have been having trouble getting my head around triangle mode as well. Watching the vid melted my mind at first, but I got the hang of it by a little way in.
Thanks for a great game that has already taken up WAY more of my time than it should have!