Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper

da-x

Awesome idea

hyperhello

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

adzm

Actually really fun

lioeters

It's cute and friendly, how it explains the rules. Maybe instead of a red box for making a mistake, the sunflower could "shake its head" to mean "no". Anyway the game feels well-designed with a focused scope, nice work!

ymolodtsov

Honestly looks far more obvious than the original to me. I like how ai agents make it possible to experiment with different game concepts. I merged Go with Tetris while brainstorming some ideas. https://goban.molodtsov.me/

gkfasdfasdf

I love it. Reverse minesweeper describes it perfectly.

0x1ceb00da

Jumped from medium to insane and didn't notice any difficulty bump. Were the puzzles designed by AI, eg arc agi puzzles are trivial for humans but very difficult for LLMs.

yammajr

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.

dyarosla

Im curious how youve set up the multiple puzzle games you have to generate two daily puzzles each? It cant be entirely by hand or entirely AI driven?

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

amanzi

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.

Kuraj

MSN MESSENGER HAD THIS! I used to play this with a friend. You would take turns, that is, the mines would reveal themselves in real time, and your turn ended if you missed a mine. Then the game would call you a slut when it ended, because my friend's MSN was in Swedish and that is the word for "end"

greazy

I'm not a big fan of puzzle games but these are great. Are the clues hand coded?

pillmillipedes

this is great! very nice ui, and quite challenging on the high difficulties. reminds me of 14mv a bit - and judging by the reactions to it on steam you're going to get so many false bug reports from people not used to the long deduction chains haha (a suggestion to try the hints near the feedback form might help curb this a bit..) one qol thing I missed is that clicking a number to fill in the neighbours only works for crosses and not sunflowers (and doesn't work for "0" clues)

ryukoposting

Very fun. Shared it with my parents and they're into it too.

bonoboTP

Single click places an x instead of a sunflower. I solved the puzzle but placed those xes instead of sunflowers and was confused why it doesn't say I solved it. I would suggest making a single click be the main action, ie placing a sunflower.

onaclov2000

Neat game! I enjoyed it!

sickcodebruh

This is great! Did a few rounds, will come back. A few months ago someone on HN shared Dragonsweeper and it completely hooked me and my wife to the point that we had to agree to break up with it. https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

itherseed

It is really good but it needs a dark theme. My eyes!

Dwedit

Maybe count perfect solves in a separate average than solves with mistakes?