I find it a bit confusing, in terms of the name, but reading the comments, I get the point of it being reversed as well. I mean, the game name in terms of reverse minesweeper ,but I like the game :) Even my 12 year old son understood how it works. Also good with dark theme! ;)
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that's how minesweeper works (except that you have to click to get the first numerical hints but that's not really what would make it "reversed"). A reverse minesweeper would be: bombs are given, and you have to place the numberical hints.
Well it is different, you can have multiple solutions in this variant. Classical minesweeper is not like that. Imagine a grid with just a 1 and the rest is empty. There are then eight different solutions. The same situation can't happen in classical, it is simply going to reveal everything except the predetermined mine. Because of this ambiguity, the search space is much larger here. Source : I play A LOT of Mineswee…
Thanks for the feedback would love to talk more with someone that plays a lot of minesweeper if you have the time?
Sunflowers still only ever has one valid solution across all difficulty levels, but would like to understand more why that is not clear to a veteran player
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#103There 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…
Helpful feedback thanks. But yes there is always a logical next step to be made that can be fully reasoned out. The hint (lightbulb) icon will show you this step when you are stuck. Disclaimer the hint system is definitely not perfect yet but should at least point you in the right direction. Please do send a screenshot if you find yourself stuck again it would be useful for me to improve the deisng
Is there only one solution per game?
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Helpful feedback thanks. But yes there is always a logical next step to be made that can be fully reasoned out. The hint (lightbulb) icon will show you this step when you are stuck. Disclaimer the hint system is definitely not perfect yet but should at least point you in the right direction. Please do send a screenshot if you find yourself stuck again it would be useful for me to improve the deisng
Is there only one solution per game?
yes
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it is different, you can have multiple solutions in this variant. Classical minesweeper is not like that. Imagine a grid with just a 1 and the rest is empty. There are then eight different solutions. The same situation can't happen in classical, it is simply going to reveal everything except the predetermined mine. Because of this ambiguity, the search space is much larger here. Source : I play A LOT of Mineswee…
Thanks for the feedback would love to talk more with someone that plays a lot of minesweeper if you have the time? Sunflowers still only ever has one valid solution across all difficulty levels, but would like to understand more why that is not clear to a veteran player
I have noticed this too. I have been playing it quite a bit. There is no reason to have one unique solution per board though.
Some thoughts:
Insane is not harder than Hard. Often times the opposite seems true.
Scratch mode auto-committing on win is a bit too nice.
Dark mode is whack, terrible contrast.
I would like a player profile with stats and so on.
Random Insane seems to play like one of 50 levels. I recognize them often. Seems not so with hard. Now I just enter the puzzle IDs in turn...
Some puzzles seem to have no prior solutions as my time is often exactly the global average.
I would like to know how many solved a puzzle. Also if I did.
Overall great job and I love this. I would like it to be an app or something that can be bookmarked.
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#108I really enjoy this, but it would be great if it defaulted to the daily puzzle.
And I could swear there was a share button, where did it go?..