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One Square Minesweeper

by notamy on 10/23/24, 4:05 AM with 63 comments

  • by schiffern on 10/23/24, 4:49 AM

    Unrealistic; in minesweeper it's impossible to hit a mine on your first click. ;)

    https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/315335/is-it-poss...

  • by encomiast on 10/23/24, 5:02 AM

    A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

  • by joshka on 10/23/24, 4:34 AM

    I 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

  • by fanf2 on 10/23/24, 4:24 PM

    Simon Tatham’s minesweeper is the best minesweeper 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. »

  • by UberFly on 10/23/24, 5:59 AM

    This game painfully reminds me of my dating attempts as a teenager.

  • by svag on 10/23/24, 7:26 AM

    On the right bottom corner says that it's part of Useless Web Project, https://theuselessweb.com/, which has more interesting "useless" games...

  • by rtpg on 10/23/24, 6:17 AM

    I 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?

  • by unsnap_biceps on 10/23/24, 4:29 AM

    I can't seem to flag the mine on mobile

  • by carver on 10/23/24, 6:07 AM

    If you are interested in variants of minesweeper, this one is awesome:

    https://magnushoff.com/articles/minesweeper/

    (scroll to the bottom)

  • by mdtrooper on 10/23/24, 4:53 AM

    This web remembers to me the great game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest

  • by silenced_trope on 10/23/24, 6:17 AM

    This was in the thread for useless programs just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894765

  • by oe on 10/23/24, 5:07 AM

    This is really hard. Anyone got any tips?

  • by lifthrasiir on 10/23/24, 5:47 AM

    Apparently this game is 3BV 0, so it should be solvable by luck and cannot be used for official records.

  • by dimava on 10/23/24, 6:45 PM

    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.

  • by davee5 on 10/23/24, 5:01 AM

    This made me laugh unreasonably hard.

  • by peepee1982 on 10/23/24, 4:57 AM

    It took me four tries to solve it.

  • by chuckledog on 10/23/24, 4:46 AM

    Finally a game superior to Flappy Bird. Bravo!

  • by _def on 10/23/24, 6:21 AM

    This is like the opposite of that paperclip game (sorry in advance)

  • by mouse_ on 10/23/24, 4:24 AM

    Best game since 1D Tetris

  • by keepamovin on 10/23/24, 5:57 AM

    By the 5th try I was sure I nearly had it. No such luck! hehehe :)

  • by _flux on 10/23/24, 8:48 AM

    It doesn't have high scores. Literally unplayable.

  • by notorandit on 10/23/24, 6:17 AM

    One square tetris Is highly needed here!

  • by paulpauper on 10/23/24, 5:12 AM

    someone registered a .com for this . At least it was not a .io domain. Those are really expensive.

  • by mproud on 10/23/24, 4:18 PM

    Beep boop beep boop beep boop!

  • by 256_ on 10/23/24, 7:13 AM

    Someone should make one with 0.

  • by hyperhello on 10/23/24, 4:41 AM

    I am really good at this.

  • by fallinghawks on 10/23/24, 5:16 AM

    I feel so successful

  • by dataflow on 10/23/24, 5:42 AM

    Is this modern art?

  • by breck on 10/23/24, 5:41 AM