Minesweeper as an NP-complete problem

  • Authors:
  • Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari

  • Affiliations:
  • Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Richard Kaye's demonstration that a puzzle based on the Minesweeper game is NP-complete makes this important computer science topic accessible to high school students. The resource described here is a set of slides showing the detailed solution of two introductory puzzles, following by the step-by-step simulation of digital circuit elements required for proving NP-completeness.