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A Somewhat Different Minesweeper

This is a type of Minesweeper puzzle I created, although I don't have a name for it yet. The rules are simple:

All standard Minesweeper rules apply
All cells with a 0, 1, or a 5 or higher are revealed.
The gray flags (F) represent a mine which, if it was a clue, it would be a 1. The flags are looking at the surrounding 8 squares, they do not count themselves. All possible gray flags are shown.
There are no mines with 0 or 4 or more mines surrounding it. That is, every mine can see at least 1 other mine, and no mine can see 4 or more other mines.

It's possible this puzzle will be easy. I'm still experimenting making these. Let me know what you think.

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A nice puzzle. It is not so hard and can be solved similarly to the usual Minesweeper, uncovering cells which are empty, and marking cells where a mine has to be.

>! Finally, there remains only five mines to detect.

>! <pre>
>! 002F201 #. FF10
>! 00 # 22#5#   10
>! 11 .#F  #. 1 21
>! ..       .1 ##1
>!  ###F FF    # 1
>! 1 34     #F 
>! 0002F   F   3##
>! 001 # F212F## #
>! 001F # 102   21
>! 2 3  F 2 3F 110
>! ## F   ###  F3 
>! #   # # 5    #F
>!   1F 22F FF F 
>! F   20113     .
>! ..#F10001FF11#.
>! </pre>

>! Now, thanks to Jaap Scherphuis and OP, who [recalled](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/130879/a-somewhat-different-minesweeper-awaiting-someones-decoding-mastery/130881#comment364117_130881) me that all possible gray flags are shown, we can detect all mines but two.

>! <pre>
>! 002F201 #  FF10
>! 00 # 22#5#   10
>! 11 .#F  ## 1 21
>!  #        1 ##1
>!  ###F FF    # 1
>! 1 34     #F 
>! 0002F   F   3##
>! 001 # F212F## #
>! 001F # 102   21
>! 2 3  F 2 3F 110
>! ## F   ###  F3 
>! #   # # 5    #F
>!   1F 22F FF F 
>! F   20113     .
>!  ##F10001FF11#.
>! </pre>

>! So near the bottom right corner is at least one mine. Since there cannot be exactly one mine, there are two mines. Finally we obtain.

>! <pre>
>! 002F201 #  FF10
>! 00 # 22#5#   10
>! 11  #F  ## 1 21
>!  #        1 ##1
>!  ###F FF    # 1
>! 1 34     #F 
>! 0002F   F   3##
>! 001 # F212F## #
>! 001F # 102   21
>! 2 3  F 2 3F 110
>! ## F   ###  F3 
>! #   # # 5    #F
>!   1F 22F FF F 
>! F   20113     #
>!  ##F10001FF11##
>! </pre>

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$\begingroup$ Could "All possible gray flags are shown." help narrow down where the last mines go? There cannot be any mines with one neighbouring mine, except for the given flagged mines. $\endgroup$
– Jaap Scherphuis
Commented Mar 6 at 17:13
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$\begingroup$ From what I can tell, your solution is very close. Remember ALL cells with a 1 are shown and ALL possible grey flags are shown. $\endgroup$
– Truej
Commented Mar 6 at 17:20
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$\begingroup$ @JaapScherphuis Thanks. Now I can complete the solution. $\endgroup$
– Alex Ravsky
Commented Mar 6 at 17:38
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$\begingroup$ @Thanks. I completed the solution. $\endgroup$
– Alex Ravsky
Commented Mar 6 at 17:53

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