X21		X21		X21
2OO		2SX		2XS
2OO	=	2XS	OR	2SX
X21		X21		X21

When you have a 50/50, its best to just guess, and if you win, good if you lose, don't worry about it. The hardest part of a Neggsweeper game is getting started, and it gets harder with each difficulty level. With hard, you'll probably start 1 out of five without hitting a trap before an empty square. You get large prizes for hard, though, so if you play on hard, then every 3 or 4 games, play easy to earn back the money you lost. I usually play medium, but that's hard enough most of the time. The main difference between them is that if you uncover 20 or more on easy, you get that much doubled, on easy, that much tripled, and on hard, that much quadrupled. Now for the patterns people sent in.

Timoniv pointed out that I forgot to mention the most basic pattern - a one on any corner means that corner is a trap (if there are no traps nearby).

The rest is from one very perceptive player--iiridayn. He sent me a very long Neomail so I'll copy it here and thank him very much... this is very useful.

	O
any 4 in and L	O	4	means all are bombs
	O	O

	1	2	1
any	X	2	X	means you can get the three below
	O	O	O

Any 1 next to anything you know is a bomb is safe.

any	1	O	=	1	S	along an edge on the bottom (rotate as required)
	1	O		1	O
	X	2	X	1	O

any	1	2	O	is as marked means	2	X
		O	O		X	S

If the previous S is a two, all are safe.

In a four along a flat wall and one on top, all four are bombs.

In a	O	3		all the O are bombs (B is a any required number)
	B	O	O

These are all I could make up on the spur of the moment. I hope that they help some.

Thank you very much, Iiridayn and Timoniv and Best Wishes from Your Reporter,

Pakjohnson