Wake Up! Don't Sweep Your Wife Away!

My latest Beyond Tetris article is up on Game Set Watch. As promised, it's about Minesweeper.

The article has a lot of details about the mainframe and BASIC ancestors of the game because I got caught up in some "I think Wikipedia is wrong" research. And I didn't go too deep into the variants, because there are so damn many of them, and most of them have some sort of overlap. Sadly, it appears that I forgot to mention Crazy Minesweeper, which is a variant of Minesweeper where different mines have different values. I mention this one in particular, because it's one of the variants I've been enjoying playing, so I don't know how I missed it. Probably because there are just too many damn variations.

My sleep schedule didn't correct, and I couldn't get to sleep today; I lay in bed, feeling wakeful and a little bit ill. So I couldn't have gotten more than four hours of sleep today. So, nothing fancy tomorrow, just watching more cramerica on Jeopardy!, then straight to bed.