![]() “AUTO SOLVE” Feature to solve the Minesweeper completely from scratch.“VS BOT” Feature facilitates user to Play Against Computer Bot.“HINT” Feature enabled for Single Player Mode to ask for hint when stuck in the game.MULTIPLAYER Minesweeper Real-time Gameplay with multiple Game Lobbies.LEADERBOARD displaying TOP 50 players’ scores _ _. ![]() Flag counter, Timer, Scoreboard and skinnable Board Interface for multiple players.DIFFICULTY LEVELS – Beginner(8x8), Intermediate(16x16), Expert(24x24) and Customize your own board.Web Application accessible via Internet through DESKTOP and MOBILE devices.The following are the key product features. The application facilitates users to play the minesweeper game in both single player and multiplayer mode via any web-browsers in Desktop and Mobile Devices. John Edwin Payne was born in Oxford on March 16 1925, but brought up at Lancing, West Sussex, where he received little schooling except in the Church Lads’ Brigade, and by the time he was 15 he was a newspaper delivery boy and a messenger in the Auxiliary Fire Service.This project is a Web-based Multiplayer Minesweeper with AI Solver. ![]() ![]() Payne was awarded the BEM for his valuable service in connection with mine clearance and disposal just before the close of the war and in the months that followed. Remarkably, there were few casualties and they became one of the most highly decorated units of the war, accumulating some 70 awards, including a George Cross, seven George Medals, two OBEs and numerous BEMs and Mentions in Despatches. Some were reached only hours after the retreating Germans, and P 1 also took prisoners of war.Īt Antwerp, in the winter of 1944-45, in the freezing water “rockets and shells were still coming over at times every three minutes … The Germans were doing a lot of shelling, but the Americans held them back.”Įventually, five P Parties were formed, comprising about 100 British, Commonwealth and Dutch divers. As the British and Canadian armies advanced, P 1 cleared the ports of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Some of the damage was due to Allied bombing. Payne helped to clear debris, booby traps and unexploded bombs before moving to Rouen – “though you could hardly tell it was a dock as it was blown to pieces so badly”. The men dived several times a day and worked round the clock in thick mud the days ran into weeks, and at one point the only rations P 1 received were American cigarettes – “which were pretty bad, but good for bartering”. Payne joined “P 1” (later formally renamed Naval Party 1571), and the first harbour he helped to clear was Cherbourg. Several P Parties were formed, each with about 12 divers and their dressers, drivers, maintainers, a sick-bay attendant and a cook. Though Payne did not know it at the time, the Germans had sabotaged the ports of north-west Europe and these urgently had to be opened up, so that the advancing Allied armies could be resupplied by sea. Payne recalled: “When he asked, ‘Does anyone want to back out?’ nobody did, which, I think, he was quite pleased with.” The diving kit consisted of a stiff rubberised canvas suit and a mask with limited visibility. There, an officer showed pictures of docks still in enemy hands, defended by barbed-wire entanglements and various mines. He found that he was to become a demolitions diver: only men who were unmarried were accepted.Īfter training in London docks which had suffered under the Blitz, Payne was issued with a khaki uniform, a rifle and five rounds of ammunition, and sent to the Admiralty. Able Seaman Johnny Payne, who has died aged 98, was the last known survivor of the “P” Parties, or “human minesweepers”, a secret navy formed during the Second Word War.Ĭalled up into the Navy when he was 18, Payne heard that volunteers for special duties were needed.
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