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Posted by notamy 10/23/2024

One Square Minesweeper(onesquareminesweeper.com)
104 points | 63 commentspage 2
silenced_trope 10/23/2024|
This was in the thread for useless programs just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765
oe 10/23/2024||
This is really hard. Anyone got any tips?
schoen 10/23/2024|
Try flagging the mine rather than revealing it! (Right click.)
keepamovin 10/23/2024||
Holy shit. There's a way to win. Awesome.

Since 1993, that's what I've been missing from my mine sweeper game. All these years I couldn't understand why I could never finish the game. Hahaha! :)

schoen 10/23/2024||
Cool!

There are actually some expert players who intentionally play without the flags as an extra challenge. They have to remember (or re-deduce) where the mines are. The game is considered won whenever the number of unexposed squares, whether explicitly flagged or not, or equal to the total number of mines.

keepamovin 10/24/2024||
That's what I assumed. But even when I got to the point of no more non-cursed squares, I didn't get the "Cool" glasses. Cry.
schoen 10/24/2024||
Usually this means that you have one more false positive hiding somewhere!
lifthrasiir 10/23/2024||
Apparently this game is 3BV 0, so it should be solvable by luck and cannot be used for official records.
dimava 10/23/2024||
Related: I've seen a minesweeper where you solve it not one by one but in general You add rules that are auto-applied wherever they can, and it tries to solve itself

  https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
  > Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.
  > Regions (number bubbles connected by lines) generated from clues on the board  
  > Rules act on regions to mark bombs, clear squares or create new regions  
  > A checker tells you if your rule is formally correct
  > Rules are auto applied forever after, resolving the situations you have solved before
  > Only the hard situations remain.
davee5 10/23/2024||
This made me laugh unreasonably hard.
peepee1982 10/23/2024||
It took me four tries to solve it.
chuckledog 10/23/2024||
Finally a game superior to Flappy Bird. Bravo!
_def 10/23/2024||
This is like the opposite of that paperclip game (sorry in advance)
mouse_ 10/23/2024||
Best game since 1D Tetris
LeonB 10/23/2024|
There was a 1D Wolfenstein that was entirely played in the url bar, and yet made perfect sense and was quite playable.
keepamovin 10/23/2024|
By the 5th try I was sure I nearly had it. No such luck! hehehe :)
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