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Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid

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Yes, you're correct, it's the decimal separator. I remember now that this is not international. I believe the comma is used in the US? Having grown up in France, I'm used to the dot. And that score is indeed suspicious, although there are some protections to prevent cheating. Someone would have to be quite motivated to go around them. But it might be possible, as you don't need to flag all the mines in order to win,…

> In any case, I'll reconsider this, and may force all mines to be flagged in order to win, that might be safer. That would make it less fun though, because an interesting variant is when you play without using flags.

fair enough. And yes, someone else mentioned here that it's indeed a challenge some players take. So that makes sense, I'll leave it as is. But maybe something's up with the score, or I should only save them for intermediate and expert mode? I'll have a think.

Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid

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On the left of the face emoji, in the top bar, you should see the number of remaining mines. It's not exactly like the version you linked, which should "number found / total", as what I show is simply "remaining mines". Is that what you mean? Although the number I show is actually a bit sneaky, as I subtract the number of flags placed to the total number of mines. So if you were to place more flags than mines, you'd…

Actually I'm more interested in the game board. If a space has (say) 3 mines next to it, then the numeral 3 will appear (as today). However, when I add a flag next to it, then the count should go down to 2 -- i.e. the number is always the number of mines minus the number of flags. It takes a bit of getting used to when first using that mode, but it becomes much quicker after a while as there is no more checking that…

Interesting. Thank you for explaining, I understand now.

I'm more leaning toward not adding more options, as I'd like to keep the game as simple as possible, but nevertheless I'll have a think, it might be worth it.

Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid

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I'm using a trackpad, so I don't have middle-click or right+left-click – could you make a single-click or double-click on the number cause the clear?

I've just added left+Ctrl, does that work for you now?

No, holding down Ctrl and left-clicking on a number doesn't clear adjacent spaces in Firefox on my Macbook Pro.
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