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Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

#71
This is very similar to “Mosaic” on Simon Tatham’s puzzle webpage. There it is noted that: “This game is variously known in other locations as: ArtMosaico, Count and Darken, Cuenta Y Sombrea, Fill-a-Pix, Fill-In, Komsu Karala, Magipic, Majipiku, Mosaico, Mosaik, Mozaiek, Nampre Puzzle, Nurie-Puzzle, Oekaki-Pix, Voisimage.”

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

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

#73
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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.

I know it as binairo, which I have seen in paper magazines. On Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection it is known as unruly: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/unru...

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you have 3 mistakes you can make, and you spend one when you accidentally place a sunflower. I played through all the daily puzzles and have started into the master puzzles and I'm glad flower is double click, because a misplaced X is free, but a misplaced flower is not. It would be far too easy to accidentally tap the screen and burn a Mistake, and if its your last one that would be frustrating.

Rather than counting mistakes, just allow mistakes, and just not let the puzzle get solved until it’s complete without mistakes. This is how most of Simon Tatham’s puzzles work, and that works well.

Sure, but then it's easier, and you can just keep clicking around by trial and error without thinking about it, which is a boring way to play.

Re: Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

#77

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

It's reverse in the sense that you've been given the numerical hints, and instead of clearing the mines, you need to place them. That feels pretty "reverse" to me.
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