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Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by Steve6 »

yammajr wrote: post #29

I did have to guess. If I'd have known how many mines there were, I wouldn't have though. https://imgur.com/a/idfj1my edit: I'm wrong. Thanks steve.

The "2" in col 1 row 5 already has 2 flowers, meaning the empty space in col 2 row 4 must be blank. So a flower belongs in the square above that one and the corner will be blank. No guessing needed.

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by Tepix »

yammajr wrote: post #29

I did have to guess. If I'd have known how many mines there were, I wouldn't have though. https://imgur.com/a/idfj1my edit: I'm wrong. Thanks steve.

First column, there's a 2 in the second row from below that already has two sunflowers. So the 3rd adjacent field must be empty.

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by ltsSmitty »

There were a few boxes in the game I just played that didn't have enough information; e.g. only one number pointed to them and you couldn't reason it out. I think it's the kind of thing in regular minesweeper where it would've auto-cleared it when I opened a box next to it. I didn't take a screenshot but I hope that makes sense - I suppose maybe once you play the game more you'd learn that these are safe x's, but I found it to lack real information. I looked around for a tip or something on it but didn't quickly find anything

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by jaffa2 »

ltsSmitty wrote: post #35

There were a few boxes in the game I just played that didn't have enough information; e.g. only one number pointed to them and you couldn't reason it out. I think it's the kind of thing in regular minesweeper where it would've auto-cleared it when I opened a box next to it. I didn't take a screenshot but I hope that makes sense - I suppose maybe once you play the game more you'd learn that these are safe x's, but I f…

it is possible in normal mine sweeper to have a postion where you cant determine 100% whether a square is a mine or not. In this cases you just have to guess. Try to identify them early as possible since they can ruin the game with an unlucky guess.

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by TobTobXX »

amanzi wrote: post #37

This is very similar concept to "0h h1" https://0hh1.com/ which I've been playing every day on Android for a couple of years now. I had never considered it to be a reverse minesweeper.

Isn't that just like Binoxxo? I've solved Binoxxo's every time I came across a newspaper.

Online example for the curious: https://raetselwelt.online/en/puzzles/binoxxo/

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

ltsSmitty wrote: post #35

There were a few boxes in the game I just played that didn't have enough information; e.g. only one number pointed to them and you couldn't reason it out. I think it's the kind of thing in regular minesweeper where it would've auto-cleared it when I opened a box next to it. I didn't take a screenshot but I hope that makes sense - I suppose maybe once you play the game more you'd learn that these are safe x's, but I f…

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Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

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Post by amanzi »

TobTobXX wrote: post #38
amanzi wrote: post #37

This is very similar concept to "0h h1" https://0hh1.com/ which I've been playing every day on Android for a couple of years now. I had never considered it to be a reverse minesweeper.

Isn't that just like Binoxxo? I've solved Binoxxo's every time I came across a newspaper. Online example for the curious: https://raetselwelt.online/en/puzzles/binoxxo/

That looks like an interesting game, I'll bookmark it. But no - it appears to be a different concept.
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