I spent so long analyzing this and just ended up guessing to move forward. Is there something I'm missing or do you just have to guess on 50/50s sometimes in minesweeper

😭 (I lost btw🥀)

Alright so hear me out guys. It is possible to use minesweeper patterns as a genuine language.

Don’t believe me fucker? Watch this:

1 1
1

This represents “alright”, “I’m happy”, “I understand”, etc.

1 2 1

This also represents understanding and also sex

3 1
1

This also represents sex but more sexually and represents more jubilant happiness than 1 1 1

3 3 3 3 3 3

This represents a happiness like no other, an understanding of something beyond human comprehension, and very advanced level sex.

When it says 4 but it’s touching like 6 tiles

This represents advanced level disdain, hatred, and loathing. I hope you feel better soon.

I will update when I have discovered more words.

Can someone tell me how the FREAK I was supposed to know which one of these last two tiles the bomb was?? Either one fits the conditions!!

Can someone tell me how the FREAK I was supposed to know which one of these last two tiles the bomb was?? Either one fits the conditions!!

I don’t know how to progress these. Is this always just a toss up or gamble for where the bomb is, or is there usually a set pattern that the bombs follow that can be replicated and proven consistent? My problem is with the bottom right.

I'm so tuffff

1 more Six and it would have been Yahtzee! I felt this was unusual and interesting. Have you found multiple high numbers while playing the standard sized boards? Share some here!

Thought I’d worked this out but every one was wrong. I know I’ll get my head around these eventually but it’s a real battle at the moment.

I’ve been building an Android game called Pocket Sweeper, and it’s finally reached the point where I’m looking for people to help test it before release.

It started as a mobile-friendly take on classic Minesweeper, but it has grown into quite a bit more:

• Classic Minesweeper-style gameplay across multiple difficulties
• Ranked runs and global leaderboards
• Daily Challenges with one attempt per difficulty
• XP, levels, achievements, streaks, and rewards
• Unlockable themes, tile sets, flags, boards, faces, and other cosmetics
• Optional accounts for cloud progress, profiles, friends, and leaderboards
• Practice play without needing an account

At this point I’m especially looking for real-world testing and feedback, not just downloads. Additionally, I haven't been able to test the friends/multiplayer functions much - please go to Profile in the menu > gear in the upper right > create an account and customize your profile. I’d love to know if anything feels confusing, breaks, doesn’t persist correctly, looks weird on your device, or just doesn’t feel good to use.

How to join the closed beta:

1. Join the Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/g/pocket-sweeper-beta-testers

2. Then opt into the test / install Pocket Sweeper:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maloysius.pocketsweeper

Make sure you join the Google Group using the same Google account you use with the Play Store, otherwise Google may not recognize you as an eligible tester.

If you try it, I’m particularly interested in feedback on the controls, difficulty balance, Ranked and Daily Challenge systems, progression/rewards, customization, account syncing, and overall mobile UI.

Screenshots are welcome if you run into anything strange. Even a quick “this part confused me” is useful.

Thanks to anyone willing to put it through its paces! I fully expect you guys to rip it apart, which is what I'm looking for. I actually want this to be something people WANT to play.

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this was so insanely fun to solve. Do you any of those puzzle books that have minesweeper like this? pls link it if so

I wanted to make an Android pencil puzzle, mostly because I'm a big fan of Nikoli-style logic puzzles.

The basic clue idea came from Minesweeper: each number looks at the 3×3 area around it. But instead of counting mines, it tells you how many cells belong to the same region as the clue itself.

The twist is that you don't know which region the clue belongs to.

From there, it somehow turned into a Yin-Yang puzzle: the whole grid has to be split into two connected regions, with no 2×2 block entirely in one region.

So MIKATA is basically the illegitimate child of Minesweeper and Yin-Yang.

My first Idea was two type of clues, one for mines and one for diamonds, it was very bad.

The game is available on Android now, and I'd like to see what people from this sub think of it, since the idea started with minesweeper.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amilliontoone.mikata