
There’s no hard and fast rule, but it is a lot easier if you start off with a nice big opening. Techniques of the best sweepers in the world suggest that starting at the corners, and making a circular sweeping motion towards the centre for an opening works best. This will beat getting a small opening and then trying to figure your way out of a corner. Left-click randomly, and fast, in a circular motion trying to get a nice, big opening so that you can start sweeping Using logic and arithmetic, you have to try and identify which squares are mines, and which are safe to be opened. When you click on a square and see a number, the number signifies how many of the eight squares that touch the open square are mines-so a “3” means that three of the eight surrounding squares are mines. Only playing Minesweeper regularly and experimenting with these settings can help you find that perfect pointer speed where you have precision control.

How low depends on the quality of the mouse and the precision you require.

Click on the Pointer Options tab and reduce the pointer speed.

Go to Start > Run and type in “control mouse”. Way that you can be comfortable using it for hours. If you’re using a ball mouse, clean the ball.
