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NP-complete problems aren't impossible, they just get very computationally expensive the bigger they get.

OP would only be rich & famous if they had developed an algorithm that solved minesweeper in polynomial or better time. (i.e., a time complexity on the order of O(n^k), where k is some constant)

Many NP-Complete problems are trivially solvable, just not trivially solvable in an efficient manner. - like the Travelling Salesman Problem. You can just try every possible combination. It's not fast, but it works.



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