Minesweeper Model

A clone of the classic Minesweeper game model with a simple text-based implementation.

Getting Started

Running a Game

To run the text-based version of Minesweeper in your terminal

1. Clone or download and unzip the repository
2. In terminal, navigate to MinesweeperClone/out/artifacts/Minesweeper_sample_jar
3. Verify java is installed with java --version
4. Run the game with java -jar Minesweeper.jar

Gameplay Notes

Coordinates

The coordinates are 0 based with an origin in the upper left corner of the board

• left 0 0 will reveal the upper-left most square
• right 9 9 will flag the bottom-right most square of a 10x10 board

Difficulty

The default difficulty is Beginner with a 10x10 board with 5 mines. To change the difficulty, add an argument to the jar command.

• Intermediate 16x16 game with 40 mines: java -jar Minesweeper.jar intermediate
• Expert 16x30 game with 99 mines: java -jar Minesweeper.jar expert