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pwmarcz.pl
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pwmarcz.pl is a personal blog at pwmarcz.pl about games and programming. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link pwmarcz.pl for Kaboom, a Minesweeper variant that punishes guessing, and the blog post explaining how it was built. The site also hosts the Autotable Mahjong project and its development post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper9 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
- Show HN: A cruel Minesweeper8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-11-19
What Hacker News says?
I'd like to have the option to show "remaining" mines. I've played https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ enough in "countdown mode" (i.e. where the numbers are the number of hidden mines) that I can't adjust to this....
Comment linking /kaboom/
on “Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid”Submitted Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper as a story · 292 points
HN discussionIt's amazing how good this is for training! Apparently I am not that great at minesweeper and guess way too often when it's not necessary. This variation kills those bad habits pretty quickly by punishing you 100% of the time for guessing. Along with undo and double checking with the debugger, I've picked up way more patterns/heuristics than in my years of playing. Coolest thing is that if you're a perfect logician…
Comment linking /kaboom/
on “Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper”Submitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper (2019) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe've changed to that one from https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ because it's a bit more informative and maybe more interesting to read first. Thanks!
Comment linking /kaboom/
on “Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper”Submitted Randomless Minesweeper: when you forced to guess cell will be empty as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also the author's blog post about how he built it: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
Comment linking /blog/kaboom/
on “Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper”Submitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee also: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mine... - no guessing ever required https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ - if you guess and you could have deduced, you always die; if you can't deduce, you're always safe.
Comment linking /kaboom/
on “Pure Skill Minesweeper”Submitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI made Autotable, a tabletop simulator for Riichi Mahjong: https://pwmarcz.pl/autotable/about.html I wanted to play with my friends the way we used to in real life. It ended up being a very interesting and rewarding project. Here is a blog post about developing the game: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/autotable/
Comment linking /blog/autotable/
on “Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?”Submitted Rewriting Minefield Mahjong in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere was a Minesweeper variant called Kaboom, where you're playing against a computer that's trying to make you lose. The computer has to comply with all revealed information, but if you ever make a guess, no matter how improbable, it's have over. https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/ Previous discussion on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875
Comment linking /blog/kaboom/
on “Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection”Submitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere was a Minesweeper on here that used a SAT solver, but I cannot find it at the moment. As I recall, it never had any issue with resolving the board quickly. I think it dynamically resolved where the mines would be as you played the game, and if you clicked a square that could be a mine, it would be a mine, except, I believe, when there were no open squares that were safe. (Edit: Here it is! https://pwmarcz.pl/k…
Comment linking /blog/kaboom/
on “Minesweeper thermodynamics”Submitted Show HN: A cruel Minesweeper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might find this interesting, not exactly generating a minesweeper without guesses but close https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
Comment linking /blog/kaboom/
on “1M Cell Minesweeper”Submitted A “Cruel but Fair” Minesweeper (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBlog post about how to go about implementing this: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
Comment linking /blog/kaboom/
on “Kaboom: Minesweeper you always lose when you guess except when you have to”Submitted Kaboom: Minesweeper you always lose when you guess except when you have to as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kaboom: A cruel but fair Minesweeper game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kaboom: An Unusual Minesweeper as a story · 1 points
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