Mines – Remember Minesweeper? – Puzzle Game
Mines
Mines is a clone of Minesweeper, a single player puzzle video game.
Minesweeper is a single-player video game. The game was made extremely popular by Windows. It may even be the most well known desktop puzzle game.
But if you have been living in cave for the last few decades, here’s a brief recap. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden mines or bombs without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. The game originates from the 1960s, and has been written for many computing platforms in use today. It has many variations and offshoots.
If you uncover a square containing a mine, you lose. If you uncover a square which does not contain a mine, you are told how many mines are contained within the eight surrounding squares.
Mines offers variants. Besides the standard 9×9 grid with 10 mines, it also offers 9×9 with 35 mines, 16×16 grid with 40 mines, 16×16 grid with 99 mines, 30×16 grid with 99 mines, and 30×16 with 170 mines. There is also a custom mode available.
Here is a short video demonstrating Guess (Master Mind), Inertia, Tents, Mines (Minesweeper), and Solo (Sudoku).
Below is a short tutorial showing you how to download and compile the latest source code for this game, and the other 38 games in the puzzle collection. The tutorial takes place in Linux, using the Ubuntu 17.10 distribution, but the procedure will be the same, or very similar, for other Linux distributions. If you find the tutorial helpful, please give the video a like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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 |  | Besides the main 3 operating system, the puzzle collection has also been ported by contributors to Palm, Android, Symbian 60, iPhone, iPad, and the Windows Store. Homepage: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Developer: Simon Tatham, Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong, and Rogier Goossens License: MIT Written in: C, Java, JavaScript |
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