&gt; the Microsoft version Minesweeper was introduced to Windows 3.1—not to demonstrate that Windows was an adept gaming operating system, but to make the idea of left and right clicking second nature for Windows users<p>It took me all the way to Windows XP to learn that you can right-click in minesweeper. I showed it to a friend, and he told me that doing that was cheating. No one in my family knew about it either.<p>So my take is that they could have made the concept clearer.