Over five years ago, I wanted to learn the basics of Java Swing. For some reason, I thought that reimplementing the well-known Microsoft game Minesweeper was the best way of doing so. I guess everyone is allowed to do something stupid every now and then :-).

It is probably not the most educational example of Object-Oriented programming, but hey: it works and has a highscore and a timer.

You can play immediately by downloading and double-clicking the Minesweeper.jar file and for those who want the source code anyway despite my warning, download Minesweeper.zip.

Note: if double-clicking Minesweeper.jar does not work: go to the command line and type "java -jar Minesweeper.jar" in the folder where you downloaded the file.