Preferences

MineSweeper allows you to customize water and background colors, the size of the cells, the pictogram/icon used for mines and flags, as well as some general game options that affect the way the game is played. Your changes go in effect immediately after you leave the preferences dialog by pressing the "OK" button. Pressing "Cancel" will restore all previous settings.

Game Options

Easy startup
When unchecked the game begins with a board in which all cells are covered. You will have to randomly pick a cell and try your luck. At the beginning there are no revealed cells that would help you to deduce your next move. This can, at times, be frustrating. If this option is checked, MineSweeper will pick randomly a mine free spot to get you started.
Allow to flag cells as questionable
MineSweeper nominally has three states for a cell: covered, uncovered, and flagged as mine. Often when you are not sure if a certain cell contains a mine, or you want to play through various possibilities in a region, it is helpful to allow to mark a cell as questionable. When this option is checked MineSweeper provides a fourth state that allows you to mark a cell as questionable, depict by a question mark. This has no meaning in the rules of the game, but can serve as an aid to logical deduction.
Submit a warning before a mine cell is revealed
This is a cheat. With this option on, you will get a visual warning when trying to reveal a cell that contains a mine. Per game you can use this feature three times. As long as it was used only once, the game can still enter the highscore list. If used twice or three times the game is barred from entering the list. The number of used cheats is indicated in the status bar on the very right if this option is selected.
 

Cell Appearance

Here you can you to choose the water and background color for the cells on the board, as well as the cell size. Remember that the size of a cell affects the size of the whole game board. The maximum allowed cell size is adjusted to ensure that the game board fits the size of your screen.

Pictograms

Minesweeper offers sets of different icons to depict mines and flags. Pick the combination you like best.