Neggsweeper Secrets

by Pakjohnson

Now, I know what your thinking "But we already have neggsweeper tips!" I know, Whorat beat me to the punch and you think you can get by from what he said. Well, I'm here to say that you can maybe beat every other easy game with those tips, but there is much more strategy involved than what he mentioned and I would like to say all I can on that subject. While I'm at it, I've decided to give advice on other money matters in general.

First of all, my pics may be simple but it's all I knew how to do. Second, most of this article is going to be what you see, and what you then know. O means a Negg, X is a trap, S is a safe Negg, and numbers are the numbers you will see. I hope you know the rules or have seen Whorat's article because I won't go over those. This is for people who plan to play a lot, not the casual gamer. Now that the intro is over, the most important method of finding traps: lowering numbers.

Lowering numbers is when you ignore flagged traps and mentally lower the numbers around them. For example:

O2		O2
O4	=	O3
O4 X		O3

Then you would employ the simplest pattern possible: the three. Any three along a wall (a row of Neggs without any corners) means the Neggs by it will all be traps.

O2		X2
O3	=	X3
O3		X3

Therefore:

O2		X2
O4	=	X4
O4 X		X4X

Beginning to get the idea? It gets harder. What if you get a two? Or a one? that's where the patterns come in. I'm sorry to say I only really know wall patterns so far, but these are extremely helpful. First, 121.

O1		X1
O2	=	S2
O1		X1

This pattern is repeatable so 1212121 follows the same way. Next is a very similar but practically opposite pattern.

O1		S1
O2	=	X2
02		X2
O1		S1

Mixing these up can be fatal, so make sure to lower numbers and double check before uncovering a Negg Sometimes there's just the same number in a row. 3 is easy, 2 and 1 are much harder. 2s make a pattern of SXXSXX. 1s make a pattern of SSXSSX. The problem is finding out where they start and end. For instance:

01		S1		S1		X1
01		X1		S1		S1
01	=	S1	OR	X1	OR	S1
01		S1		S1		S1
01		X1		S1		X1

02		X2		S2		X2
02		X2		X2		S2
02	=	S2	OR	X2	OR	X2
02		X2		X2		X2
02		X2		S2		S2

Now I'll finish this part of the article by asking for you to send in your patterns by Neomailing me. I am hoping to write a second article next week with these submissions. For now your "homework" is:

X21	|
200	|
200	|
200	|

Find the traps (don't worry about the two along the bottom right wall).