Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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da-x•3h ago

Awesome idea

pompomsheep•3h ago

Thanks! Not perfect yet but I think it has potential. Would love any feedback

convolvatron•55m ago

I guess I am mildly discomfited by the red flower. if the program is going to tell me every time I fail to think through things properly, then my role here is kinda limited to driving the mouse.

pompomsheep•47m ago

Helpful feedback thanks. I am trying to make it a bit more forgiving for first time players to learn the logic.

Then in easy mode and above you are given max 3 mistakes similar to sudoku.com and other popular logic puzzles

Kuinox•44m ago

I jumped directly to insane and completed it on the first try. It's too easy.

pompomsheep•29m ago

I've just tried to bump insane up a bit if you could test it to let me know what you think?

I'm struggling to play test the higher difficulties because it above my own skill level haha

kybishop•14m ago

Insane is still far too easy. For the highest skill level it should be -really- hard. Was still able to solve one in under 3 minutes.

I -love- this idea though!!

pompomsheep•26m ago

And if you find a puzzle you like the difficulty of could you tell me the puzzle id at the top left please

hyperhello•51m ago

I don’t understand how this is reverse minesweeper when it’s just minesweeper with flowers instead of bombs.

pompomsheep•43m ago

Yeah it's maybe not the best way to describe it, but my intention is all clues already visible at the start rather than exploration, and adding in flowers rather than avoiding mines.

The main difference is having all the clues visible at the start changes it to a search and deduction logic style rather than reveal and react

omoikane•26m ago

In that sense, this game is similar to Mosaic[1] where the clues are all initially visible, except in Mosaic the count includes all 9 cells since black squares can be placed on the numbers themselves.

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mosa...

Braini•3m ago

This reminds me a bit of one mode (squared) from Picture Enigmas (https://picture-enigmas.com/#features) which I like to play from time to time.

adzm•29m ago

Actually really fun

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