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One Square Minesweeper
- silenced_trope 2y agoThis was in the thread for useless programs just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765
- hyperhello 2y agoI am really good at this.
- mouse_ 2y agoBest game since 1D Tetris
- LeonB 2y agoThere was a 1D Wolfenstein that was entirely played in the url bar, and yet made perfect sense and was quite playable.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoI can't seem to flag the mine on mobile
- joshka 2y agoI can't get the xyzzy cheat[1] to work. How am I going to tell if there is a bomb or not? [1]: https://minesweepergame.com/history/xyzzy.php https://minesweepergame.com/history/xyzzy.php
- Dylan16807 2y agoOh cool. Also it's really funny that the blog is cutting off the corners on the main image.
- mdtrooper 2y agoThis web remembers to me the great game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest
- chuckledog 2y agoFinally a game superior to Flappy Bird. Bravo!
- schiffern 2y agoUnrealistic; in minesweeper it's impossible to hit a mine on your first click. ;) https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/315335/is-it-possible-to-hit-a-mine-on-first-click https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/315335/is-it-poss...
- praptak 2y agoIt's "an irresistible force meeting an immovable object" type of situation.
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoYour link suggests: "If a mine is under the first clicked tile, it is moved to the upper-left corner, if the upper left corner is occupied, the mine moves to the right of the corner tile." If that happened here, the square would still be a mine.
- raldi 2y agoWhat if the upper-left corner and the one to its right are mined?
- bwen 2y ago"The function checks if it is the first click, and that the square being clicked is a mine. It then tries to move the mine to the upper-left corner. If unsuccessful it tries the square to the right of it. If all of the first row is occupied by mines, the function tries to put the mine in the leftmost square of the row below, and so on." https://web.archive.org/web/20180618103640/http://www.techuser.net/mineclick.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180618103640/http://www.techus...
- throwawayk7h 2y agoWhat does the function do if the entire board is mines?
- peepee1982 2y agoIt took me four tries to solve it.
- davee5 2y agoThis made me laugh unreasonably hard.
- encomiast 2y agoA strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoGambling? :)
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- wging 2y agoIn this case, you win by flagging all the mines. That isn't how winmine worked -- you just had to uncover all non-mine spaces.
- animal531 2y agoIt would have been funnier if when you flag it the game turns it into a number and you lose anyway.
- m463 2y agoyou're confusing minesweeper with nuclear disarmament.
- exolab 2y agoFor those OOTL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
- oe 2y agoThis is really hard. Anyone got any tips?
- schoen 2y agoTry flagging the mine rather than revealing it! (Right click.)
- keepamovin 2y agoHoly 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 2y agoCool! 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 2y agoThat'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 2y agoUsually this means that you have one more false positive hiding somewhere!
- paulpauper 2y agosomeone registered a .com for this . At least it was not a .io domain. Those are really expensive.
- killingtime74 2y agoYou know you have that side project mentality when how much the domain name costs is the first consideration XD
- LeonB 2y agoFrom the “useless web” links provided above, I learned: > The project was built and launched as part of Netlify’s Dusty Domains project, where for each project built and launched on an old domain money was donated to charity! Ultimately over a hundred thousand dollars was raised for a variety of individual charities.
- dirkc 2y agoHopefully not with Gandi, because then they also have a "move domain" entry in their TODO list!
- fallinghawks 2y agoI feel so successful
- breck 2y agoRelated: https://sdk.scroll.pub/particleComponentFramework/sweepercraft/#rows/16/columns/30/layout/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa https://sdk.scroll.pub/particleComponentFramework/sweepercra...
- dataflow 2y agoIs this modern art?
- lifthrasiir 2y agoApparently this game is 3BV 0, so it should be solvable by luck and cannot be used for official records.
- keepamovin 2y agoBy the 5th try I was sure I nearly had it. No such luck! hehehe :)
- UberFly 2y agoThis game painfully reminds me of my dating attempts as a teenager.
- carver 2y agoIf you are interested in variants of minesweeper, this one is awesome: https://magnushoff.com/articles/minesweeper/ https://magnushoff.com/articles/minesweeper/ (scroll to the bottom)
- rtpg 2y agoI remember a long time ago (20 years ago?) playing some Windows minesweeper variant that someone had wrote. It did the "impossible to hit a mine on your first click" thing (That I believe Windows' Minesweeper didn't do), but also had different shapes. You could have a hex map, for example. Anyone know what I'm thinking of?
- rstarast 2y agoxbomb? https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/xbomb/ https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/xbomb/
- notorandit 2y agoOne square tetris Is highly needed here!
- _def 2y agoThis is like the opposite of that paperclip game (sorry in advance)
- 256_ 2y agoSomeone should make one with 0.
- svag 2y agoOn the right bottom corner says that it's part of Useless Web Project, https://theuselessweb.com/ https://theuselessweb.com/, which has more interesting "useless" games...
- _flux 2y agoIt doesn't have high scores. Literally unplayable.
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- mproud 2y agoBeep boop beep boop beep boop!
- fanf2 2y agoSimon Tatham’s minesweeper is the best minesweeper https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine... « The first square you open is guaranteed to be safe, and (by default) you are guaranteed to be able to solve the whole grid by deduction rather than guesswork. »
- dimava 2y agoRelated: 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.