The controversy over the land mine theme of the game was settled by defaulting the appearance based on region so that "sensitive" areas used the flower theme, but some still wanted the game removed from Windows altogether. This iteration of Minesweeper was created by Oberon Media. The visual change also allowed for the Board to be "Silver and Blue" or "Green". It also came with a more peaceful "flower" motif (called "Flower Garden") to replace the landmines (a game style called "Minesweeper"). The icons were updated to match the Aero look. The game's color scheme changed with the release of Vista (from gray to either blue or green). It is the default in specific distributions of Windows. The "Flower Field" version of Minesweeper, developed by Oberon Media, shows a garden blooming when the game is lost. The game board comes in three set sizes with a predetermined number of mines: "beginner", "intermediate", and "expert", although a "custom" option is available as well. However, in the event that a game is lost and the player had mistakenly flagged a safe square, that square will either appear with a red X, or else a red X covering the mine (both denoting the square as safe). The game is won once all blank or numbered squares have been uncovered by the player without hitting a mine any remaining mines not identified by flags are automatically flagged by the computer. To help the player avoid hitting a mine, the location of a suspected mine can be marked by flagging it with the right mouse button. Some squares are blank while others contain numbers (from 1 to 8), with each number being the number of mines adjacent to the uncovered square. Clicking on the game board will reveal what is hidden underneath the chosen square or squares (a large number of blank squares may be revealed in one go if they are adjacent to each other). The location of most mines is discovered through a logical process, but some require guessing, usually with a 50-50 chance of being correct. The goal of Minesweeper is to uncover all the squares on a grid that do not contain mines without being "blown up" by clicking on a square with a mine underneath.
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In Windows 8 and later the game is not included with a fresh Windows install, but Microsoft Studios has published an updated version of it, developed by Arkadium, on Microsoft Store. Microsoft Minesweeper was included without major changes in all subsequent Windows releases until Windows Vista, at which time an updated version by Oberon Media replaced it.
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First officially released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was first included in the standard install of Windows 3.1 in 1992, replacing Reversi from Windows 3.0. Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper-type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time.
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