to play a map, open minecraft, then click singleplayer, choose the world, then click play selected world.
just play minecraft
To play minecraft simply double left click the downloaded .exe file
If you have access to an account that has bought Minecraft, which is hard to do for free, then you can play in-browser and download the launcher to play offline.
If you have downloaded minecraft to your desktop double-click the icon and login. then click single player and click on a world. If you are playing minecraft on the website click on in browser and click single player then click on a world
There is an option on the downloaded version that says "play offline" click that.
you just have to download it on the computer you want that minecraft to be
In order to do ANYTHING online in minecraft, you need a legal paid version of minecraft, unless you play on a cracked version.
What do you mean? Yes, if you have downloaded it you can of course play it. Just open the Minecraft.exe file and it will start.
You can try download minecraft from usenet, but if you try, do not enter any username or password in your downloaded minecraft.exe. To play multiplayer, you have to buy the game.
Minecraft will hang if you play online because the Minecraft server IP is (probably) banned from the school network.
If you've purchased it already then yes. You can play offline anytime you want.