Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by ooterness on Sunday April 21, 2024 @06:03PM (#40109626)

There was a Minesweeper variant called Kaboom, where you're playing against a computer that's trying to make you lose. The computer has to comply with all revealed information, but if you ever make a guess, no matter how improbable, it's have over.

https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/

Previous discussion on HackerNews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875

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Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by omoikane on Sunday April 21, 2024 @08:05PM (#40110326)

There is also Yusuke Endoh's version, where the only thing you do is guess. Computer will automatically mark all the spots where it has enough information to make an inference.

https://mame.github.io/minesweeper-spoiled-by-ai/

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Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by rahimnathwani on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:07AM (#40111331)

This reminds me of absurdle:

https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

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Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by ygra on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:54AM (#40111498)

Or the more evil version: https://dontwordle.com/

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Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by sph on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:01AM (#40112258)

I also like Mosaic, a variant of Minesweeper: https://www.puzzle-minesweeper.com/mosaic-5x5-easy/

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Re:Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection by thaumasiotes on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:05AM (#40112848)

As described, that would lead to a 100% loss rate.

Even if you're allowed to make a guess on an empty board (classic Minesweeper will wait to generate the board until you do, so that your first guess is never a mine), most games end in a 50/50 chance.

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