> backed myself into a corner a couple of times and triggered "just gotta guess" choices
At least for me sometimes a situation that looked like "just gotta guess" was actually solvable by knowing the total number of remaining mines, as one choice in the "guess" would imply more mines than the other.
Isn't it known how many mines are on the board, so that is not actually a problem since you could count that all of the exposed/marked mines == total # of mines?
At least for me sometimes a situation that looked like "just gotta guess" was actually solvable by knowing the total number of remaining mines, as one choice in the "guess" would imply more mines than the other.