Minestein

Minestein Review

A Minesweeper game with no guessing, plus a hint system

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Publisher:

Rod Gerstad

Version:

0.03

Released:

8, December 2008

License:

Freeware

Size:

175 Kb

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Product Info

Minestein is a Minesweeper game that has puzzles which can be solved entirely by logic. It ha a two stage hint system and can provide puzzles with a minimum difficulty rating as measured in 3BV scores. The source code is included. It can also provide random puzzles like traditional Minesweeper games.

Configurable options

Users can set:

the grid size
the number of mines
the minimum 3BV score
select sets of standard puzzles
to use puzzles that can be solved by logic
to use puzzles that require guessing
which algorithms are used to create the puzzles and provide hints

Toolbar

The toolbar includes buttons to request a hint.
The first click identifies a logically solvable cell.
Then a second click sets the answer for the cell if the user cannot work out the solution.

The toolbar also has buttons to provide the answer for a cell or the whole grid, and to start a new game

What's new in current version

Speedup: zero puzzle generation time for logical Expert puzzles

Requirements

Python and Python-tk

Please contact Minestein publisher, Rod Gerstad if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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