Skyking: Of course they won on their merits, they used their brain whereas and studied their opposition. You think an army goes into battle unprepared?
pauloaguia: An easy way to represent that variant you describe is to use the windows mines program where you can tag a square with a "?" when you are not sure if a mine is there or not.
Instead of the square turning orange or blue as is the case now, it would be a "?" and only with subsequent tries could you determine if it was a hit or not