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A won expert game of KMines, a free and open-source variant of Minesweeper. 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 ...
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping.
[73] [74] [75] An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, Big Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [‡ 9] [76] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [77]
Minesweeping is the practice of removing explosive naval mines, usually by a specially designed ship called a minesweeper using various measures to either capture or detonate the mines, but sometimes also with an aircraft made for that purpose.
A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the location of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a minesweeper and minehunter in one hull. [1] The term MCMV is also applied collectively to minehunters and minesweepers.
Mine warfare consists of: minelaying, the deployment of explosive naval mines at sea to sink enemy ships or to prevent their access to particular areas; minesweeping, the removal or detonation of naval mines; and degaussing, the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field in a ship's hull to prevent its detection by magnetic mines.
Racecourse-class minesweeper (32 ships in 2 sub-classes, launched 1916—1918) paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops; Halcyon-class minesweeper (7 reciprocating and 14 turbine ships, launched 1933—1939) twin-screw minesweeping sloops; Bangor-class minesweeper (14 ships, launched 1940—1942) diesel twin-screw single-role minesweeping sloops
The first version of Ship Simulator was released in 2006 and was titled Ship Simulator 2006.The user can steer various ships, amongst others a Rotterdam water taxi, a container ship and even the ill-fated RMS Titanic, in various weather conditions and in three real-life harbours, which are Rotterdam, Hamburg and Phi Phi Islands in Thailand; a fourth harbour, New York City was later released as ...