I agree that it sounds mathematically correct, but I did an actual number study and when in free mode you can pick the square beneath the previous mine and on a significant average always earn more before you hit a mine in the series compared to the same method when betting. Is this correlation an evidence of causation or perhaps my study wasn't long enough, but it was significantly convincing to me.
Unless vitsum somehow cracked md5 and is able to generate colliding strings within a second (that magically also are only 42 characters long AND differ only by 32 characters AND use a very restrictive character set), your "number study" is useless :pHint: such collisions probably don't even exist.
The mines locations are determined at the start of the game, this is proven.
The only way the game could "cheat" is by attempting to learn your strategy and adjusting the generating algorithm before you start a new game. If you truly believe this is happening, simply play by picking a random square for every more. There's no way to predict that
