and can think about them in a new way. although you’re specifically figuring out what you need to win, it may just be that those skills you learn could be useful elsewhere. many jobs are looking for people with critical thinking and logic skills after all, and while minesweeper won’t get you the job, it may just keep your mind in shape. and if you throw time in the mix, then you can train yourself to work through pattern recognition and logic in faster amounts of time by trying to beat your last record time (or in my case, just finish expert difficulty before the clock reads 999).
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