Neat... but I'm missing the left+right click, in the Windows Minesweeper, say you have a square with 4, and you've marked 4 squares around it as bombs, you can left+right click on the 4-square and uncover all the unmarked squares around it, instead of going one by one.
Also "undo" is cool, but "lose 60s" seems backwards, considering one would get 60 seconds added to one's time.
Thanks a lot for trying it and the feedback. As a sibling comment said, left+right click should work (as well as middle click). Which OS/browser are you using? I like to fix this.
And you're right for "lose 60s", It's not the ideal wording. I was thinking it in terms of the less time you end up with, the better your score is. But "gain 60s" wouldn't work either. I'll have a think, but curious to hear if anyone has suggestions for this.
I'm using a trackpad, so I don't have middle-click or right+left-click – could you make a single-click or double-click on the number cause the clear?
I've just added left+Ctrl, does that work for you now?
No, holding down Ctrl and left-clicking on a number doesn't clear adjacent spaces in Firefox on my Macbook Pro.
maybe "60s penalty" would be better wording?
yes, that's indeed better, thanks a lot for your help, I appreciate.
"60s penalty" wording is live! Thanks again
One "challenge mode" (entirely self-directed) for Minesweeper was to complete the board without flagging any mines. (Once you've revealed every non-mine space, all the mines get flagged automatically and you win.)
Disabling left+right click brings us a lot closer to that mode. Maybe you could formalize it and call it an option?
A much bigger problem with right click (and left+right click) is that it's bringing up the browser context menu. That shouldn't happen.
If we're trying to be authentic to original Minesweeper, I see that you've implemented the sunglasses face that appears once you've won the game. The original also uses an ":o" face (circular mouth) when revealing a hidden square. Maybe U+1F62E?
I didn't realise that completing a grid without putting any flag was a challenge people would take. That's very good to know, thank you. So yes, maybe I'll formalize it, that would make sense.
And I believe that the context menu appearing is only on MacOS? The closest I have is a mac book, and I can't reproduce the problem on it unfortunately. But it looks like I can reproduce it on linux/chrome, with the browser dev tools set to mobile, so hopefully that fix will also solve the problem on MacOS. I'll report back when that's deployed.
For the emoji, at the moment, you can see a scared face when you click on an uncovered tile, and take about 1sec to release the mouse. So when you're hesitating for instance. And I think I'm happy with how it is at the moment, I'll take care of all the other bugs mentioned here as a higher priority.
Middle click does not work for me on a Mac. Maybe cmd+click or double click would be ok to do?
Thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestion. And yes, I think it makes sense to add those.
Middle-click to progress works, but middle-click to flash (with no net effect, just so you can count) doesn't. This would really help work around the unintuitive neighbors problem mentioned elsewhere.
ah yes. I have not added that, but it's on my list. I completely agree it would help. I'll see if I can get to it. Thanks a lot for the nudge, that's super useful.
Re wording: perhaps "costs 60s" might be sufficiently unambiguous?
thank you for your suggestion. I went with the "60s penalty" suggestion in the end.
"+60s"?
"suffer 60s"
I have a touchpad (and a crappy one at that), left+right click isn't an option, nor is middle click.
Left-clicking the number is an option, and works for touchpads where chording and middle-click just don't.
For touchpads that don't have a real Right mouse button, you can't Left+Right click at the same time. Windows Minesweeper adds Double click as an alternative way to trigger Clear Around.
Other touchscreen minesweepers let you tap the number to clear all the blank spaces around it if enough mines are marked. Without this feature, clearing is tedious.
ok, that's great info thank you. I should be able to fix that in the coming days.
Middle click works great for me, just like the ol' Windows 3.1 days.
Two points:
- In Windows 3.1, Minesweeper had the convention of left+right clicking to uncover every non-flagged square around a number that was full.
- At that time, three-button mice were not so common; the mouse to my Windows 3.1 machine had only two buttons.
Middle click might have worked then, but it was not the primary way to get the effect.
left+right click reveal works for me (linux + chrome 120). Middle click also does the same as left+right click.
I'm used to double-clicking to perform the same action.