Imagine a game of Minesweeper more challenging than anything you ever saw on your Windows PC back in the day, one with thousands of mines to work your way around.
That's exactly what a company called Cinemassive thought up. The company, which makes video walls, celebrated the 30th anniversary of Minesweeper by linking 24 large screen televisions with the world's largest version of Minesweeper.
This Minesweeper game is so big that is has a total of 38,799 mines to get rid of.
For those too young to remember, Minesweeper was once one of several games that shipped with the early versions of the Windows operating system. The game consisted of small gray blocks, some that contained mines underneath them. Once uncovered, those spaces under the blocks that do not have mines have numbers that indicate how many mines those spaces actually touch. Players carefully use this information to detect where mines are so that they can clear out the area around the mine and ultimately get rid of it.
No one has yet beat this new ultimate version of Minesweeper, but the company has put out a request for those interested in giving it a shot. They'll eventually choose 10 people to take on the challenge, and maybe, just maybe, one person will sweep out all the mines.
Think you have what it takes to meet the challenge? Visit the Cinemassive Minesweeper website to enter yourself into the competition.
The record for the largest game of Minesweeper ever won only included 1,412 mines, so beating this one might statistically be next to impossible.
Interesting sidenote: Microsoft chose Minesweeper in 1992 for Windows to teach its early OS users how to left and right click on a mouse. The game found its bases with a 1960s game called The Cube.
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