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Re:Show HN: A Minesweeper variant with weighted mines, alway... by ajjenkins on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:24PM (#49186847)
This is fun. But I think you need a way to specify in the flag how many fangs are there. A similar modern minesweeper game is ColorSweeper.

A feature I like in that game is it will grey out numbers once you’ve sufficiently annotated the adjacent spaces.

It’s a really good game, but you need to pay $5 to get rid of ads.

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Re:Show HN: A Minesweeper variant with weighted mines, alway... by ajjenkins on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:27PM (#49186897)
Another good feature in ColorSweeper that would be nice in your game is a “sketch” view that lets you place potential mines/fangs on the board so you can see how things would play out. Like if you put a 1-fang here and a 2-fang there, does that work with all the numbers shown.
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