11-05-2006, 08:53 PM
Quote:As for Minesweeper, there's an arguable case that it and games like it are genuinely rigged against the player - and that is the number one Bad Thing in the world of video and computer games.
Mind sweeper isn't 'rigged' unless by rigged you mean there's a degree of chance included in the game. Mind sweepers a mix of (predominately) logical deductions and (minimally) chance. If the level of chance wasn't there the game would get boring pretty fast.
Now I'm sure there can be a case made about how there is always a degree of chance generated in every puzzle. This is hardly rigging the game though, no where does it promise that it's a purely logical game. It isn't Sudoku.
Cheers,
Munk