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Show HN: Store Text in Minesweeper

28 points by breck 2y ago

breck 2y ago
Oh my goodness. Claude 3's Sonnet can whip up this sort of thing now in seconds: https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1803864247983837537 https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1803864247983837537 It struggles with a few of the more advanced features (in particular, getting advanced features to interplay correctly), but it nails 80% of it on the first try, and generates better visual design than me. In contrast, it took me a few days to build this (but then again, I was also doing it as research into building yet another react like framework, at that time).
breck 2y ago
2 ways to craft your own board: 1. Press "w" to enter a string that will be converted to a board 2. On a new board before clicking any piece, start adding flags. A link will appear to a custom board where each flag will be a mine.
eps 2y ago
Browsing from an (older) iPad and linked page shows up as a blank. Just FYI.
trevoragilbert 2y ago
This is fun! In trying to find an edge with generating based on a word, from what I can tell it also has a border of not-bombs which gives the player an edge they wouldn't have in classic minesweeper.
cobbal 2y ago
With this you can even roll a QR code into a game of minesweeper: https://sdk.scroll.pub/treeComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#rows/21/columns/21/layout/.TV8ePbUTRT05DUJRSfXb.QV4aSaO3KVGi1hIMVOI5.I4ybXz.SNSeMHUJvf0K8UURCeGi.OHi https://sdk.scroll.pub/treeComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#...
- breck 2y ago
  Love it! I wonder what CSS tweaks would be needed to get phone cameras to read these properly. Would definitely accept a pull request for a keyboard shortcut "q" that words like "w" except generates a QR code :)
alejoar 2y ago
For anyone wondering without time, the solution is E=MC^2
Zobat 2y ago
Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word. Lots of high numbers and few gaps made for a lot of clicking. The fact that I tried a few times to click left+right button on digits tells me I've spent enough time playing minesweeper. For anyone who haven't tried to become competitive at minesweeper, clicking both mouse buttons on a digit that has the right amount of "bomb marks" on neighboring squares makes the (Windows) game click on all not yet clicked squares.
- breck 2y ago
  > Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word Agreed. A fun way to play it is 2 player in person. The player tries to guess the word as they go, and the board creator tells them if they got it (so you just try to get the general shape of the word, without actually trying to solve every letter).

28 points by breck 2y ago

Oh my goodness. Claude 3's Sonnet can whip up this sort of thing now in seconds: https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1803864247983837537 https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1803864247983837537 It struggles with a few of the more advanced features (in particular, getting advanced features to interplay correctly), but it nails 80% of it on the first try, and generates better visual design than me. In contrast, it took me a few days to build this (but then again, I was also doing it as research into building yet another react like framework, at that time).

breck 2y ago

2 ways to craft your own board: 1. Press "w" to enter a string that will be converted to a board 2. On a new board before clicking any piece, start adding flags. A link will appear to a custom board where each flag will be a mine.

eps 2y ago

Browsing from an (older) iPad and linked page shows up as a blank. Just FYI.

trevoragilbert 2y ago

This is fun! In trying to find an edge with generating based on a word, from what I can tell it also has a border of not-bombs which gives the player an edge they wouldn't have in classic minesweeper.

cobbal 2y ago

With this you can even roll a QR code into a game of minesweeper: https://sdk.scroll.pub/treeComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#rows/21/columns/21/layout/.TV8ePbUTRT05DUJRSfXb.QV4aSaO3KVGi1hIMVOI5.I4ybXz.SNSeMHUJvf0K8UURCeGi.OHi https://sdk.scroll.pub/treeComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#...

breck 2y ago
Love it! I wonder what CSS tweaks would be needed to get phone cameras to read these properly. Would definitely accept a pull request for a keyboard shortcut "q" that words like "w" except generates a QR code :)

alejoar 2y ago

For anyone wondering without time, the solution is E=MC^2

Zobat 2y ago

Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word. Lots of high numbers and few gaps made for a lot of clicking. The fact that I tried a few times to click left+right button on digits tells me I've spent enough time playing minesweeper. For anyone who haven't tried to become competitive at minesweeper, clicking both mouse buttons on a digit that has the right amount of "bomb marks" on neighboring squares makes the (Windows) game click on all not yet clicked squares.

breck 2y ago
> Surprisingly tedious playing the board generated from a word Agreed. A fun way to play it is 2 player in person. The player tries to guess the word as they go, and the board creator tells them if they got it (so you just try to get the general shape of the word, without actually trying to solve every letter).