Wei Hwa’s challenge this week is minesweeper and I’m fairly certain that no one will be looking for solutions. To make it interesting, he’s included some variations.
- Zero - Instead of leaving a block empty if there are no mines around it, he puts a zero in the block. This is actually slightly annoying since it doesn’t really add a dimension to the game and only requires you to click with the center button a lot more. This seems to be a bridge variation, in the sense that a lot of the later variations require a zero.
- Spider - The mine layout changes, but not for spaces that you’ve already revealed (however, flagged blocks can change.) Mostly, playing this game involves center clicking the zeroes in the middle of the board until the mines are all arounf the edges.
- Symbol - The numbers are changed to symbols. I kind of think that to make this one really challenging though, they should disable the center click. Otherwise, it’s too easy to discover early what the symbols represent.
- Memory - Blocks are never cleared. Clicking on a block reveals what’s beneath, but it’s soon covered up again.
- Knight - Numbers indicate how many mines are a chess knight’s move away. It’s fun because center clicking actually reflects this.
Hey Josh, what’s the url for this puzzle?
Comment by Mike Lee — July 27, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
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