Belderchal
@Belderchal

Simon Tatham's Puzzle collection (Which has a mobile app version too!) is a massive library of puzzle games, all of which are exceptionally well coded. I'll be showcasing a few of my favourites!

First up, we have Mines , which in my opinion is the best version of minesweeper ever released. Tired of relying on RNG in certain situations? This version has you covered. It's always possible to solve Mines if you use the right logic.There are some really cool situations that come up too- the remaining mine count is also part of the logic puzzles!

First up, we have Mines, which in my opinion is the best version of minesweeper ever released. Tired of relying on RNG in certain situations? This version has you covered. It's always possible to solve Mines if you use the right logic.

There are some really cool situations that come up too- the remaining mine count is also part of the logic puzzles!

Mines


pinball
@pinball

building on the above suggestions of excellent games, in particular Mines, which is a game that you're guaranteed to get a board in which it can always be solved, here's two more variations of minesweeper that will always let you win, if you're clever.

https://magnushoff.com/articles/minesweeper/

the first comes from a blog post by magnus hoff, "Solving Minesweeper" and is not presented as a game on its own, but describes the problem and provides a variation: you can at any time ask for help, and choose to reveal any square on the board as a mine or not. but if you are in a situation where you could have logically guessed a square without help, you immediately lose

the minesweeper board from magnus hoff's solving minesweeper, with the classic minesweeper reset face, mine counter, option to automate revealing logically impossible tiles, and the request help button


https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/

the second is Kaboom from Paweł Marczewski

Kaboom instead of guaranteeing a solvable board like Mines, or giving you a magic wand as solving minesweeper did, will ensure that a guessed tile is always a mine if you could have made logical progress without random guess, and never a mine if you can't make progress. the result is a game where you can always win, if you always make the best move, and when you're pushed into the corner you're never punished for taking a stab at it. just beware you can't start by picking out the corners, once you've begin all your guesses must be contiguous.

the kaboom board, with options for choosing size of the board anda new game button under it


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in reply to @Belderchal's post:

Huh, cool to find more people on here finding out about the Puzzles :). I got really into Loopy, which feels like an inverse of Pearl in that it's intuitive to start but then gets much trickier. And maybe I should give Net another go...

So, these games are also impressive because they're all written in C and WASM compiled. You'd never know it from how smoothly they run, though.

I think Net is my favorite I've tried so far. It's a great way to spend a short while.

I had this installed on my phone since March last year. It's my favourite app because it gives me something to play even when my battery only has 4% left and I can still go for another 2 hours. The ones that I play constantly are Guess, Rectangles, and Tents. :eggbug:

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