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The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the command xyzzy, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine ...
I'm almost certain the key sequence for the Minesweeper cheat mode was xyzzy followed by Enter then Shift, not the other way around as stated in the article. A web search doesn't confirm either way, as both sequences seem to be commonly cited, but I'm pretty sure Enter followed by Shift was what I always used, and it always worked.
The instructions for invoking the Easter egg vary depending on the version: [citation needed] 1.xx: Press Alt + ⇧ Shift + Esc + ↵ Enter. 1.01 and later: Hold Alt then Esc, release Alt then Esc, press Esc twice then press ← Backspace. 2.0 and later: Press F1, F5, F9, F4 and ← Backspace in rapid succession.
Look up xyzzy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. xyzzy or XYZZY may refer to: Xyzzy (computing), a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, later a metasyntactic variable or a video game cheat code. Xyzzy (mnemonic), memory trick used in mathematics. XYZZY Awards, for interactive fiction.
Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly just Minesweeper, and also known as Flower Field) is a minesweeper -type video game created by Curt Johnson, originally for IBM 's OS/2, that was ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time. First released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was first ...
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Minesweeper (video game) Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) scattered throughout the board. The objective is to clear the board without detonating any mines, with help from clues ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. Minesweepers by country (51 C) Minesweepers by navy (53 C)