I was able to go back to May of 2017 to finish all my badges. It seems that you can now roll back the clock as far back as you want, at least on Windows 10. You can knock this achievement out in about 8 hours total from scratch following my method. (EDIT: Updated in March 2014 to reflect testing on the 'set your clock back' methods) Credit to RadicalSniper99 for pointing out the Expert challenges, and Kugare for the Premium info.) (Thanks to Ironspleen for info on the system clock. Minesweeper has been tracking medals earned since the release so it is possible to have this already from 20. This achievement appears to be retroactive. This appears to be true for all of the Microsoft Arkadium releases. This is why some people can still play challenges as far back as September, while some are stuck with more recent months. If you have entered daily challenge mode during any month and downloaded the challenges, however, you can go back whenever you like. At present, it seems February 2014 is the furthest back you can go. You are able to set your PC clock back and retrieve old challenges. However, this will only occur if you have entered that month while the challenges were still on the server. Sometime in September 2013, an update was made to the game that downloads the Daily Challenges for each month. If you have Minesweeper Premium (the paid version, which is $1.49 a month or $9.99 a year), coins can be earned at double the rate for challenges, but the bonus will not increase. These are worth 300 coins, and will speed things up a little, but they are not occurring every day. There are occasionally Expert challenges. In other words, play every challenge for roughly 20 days in each of 8 months.

Coins can be earned in 4 ways.Ĭomplete all 3 Daily Challenges (150 coins) In order to unlock a Gold Daily Challenge badge, you need to earn between 11000-12000 coins in Daily Challenge mode (the goal will vary by month).

Microsoft minesweeper achievements