It is the right way to describe it, that guy just doesn't remember how minesweeper worked.
replyIn that sense, this game is similar to Mosaic[1] where the clues are all initially visible, except in Mosaic the count includes all 9 cells since black squares can be placed on the numbers themselves.
reply[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mosa...
Another example is this Steam game which I play occasionally: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3083300/Proverbs/
replyFrom the same developer
reply> https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/divide-the-plunder
I particularly like "Mosaic of the Strange"
> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444650/Mosaic_of_the_Str...
You will in particular like this game if you are into conspiracy theories. If one switches the difficulty to the hardest one, HN readers might have some fun with this game. :-)
linking my favourite sweeper variant: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mamonosweeper&ia=web ;
replytry this one in html5: https://hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper_h2/html5/en.html
Great thanks for sending these
replyThis reminds me a bit of one mode (squared) from Picture Enigmas (https://picture-enigmas.com/#features) which I like to play from time to time.
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