Mines is a clone of the game Minesweeper. The aim is to locate all the mines that are hidden under tiles on a rectangular board. You will need to use a combination of logic and luck to find all the mines without triggering an explosion.
You start the game with a grid of covered squares and no idea what is in them. Clicking on a square reveals what is in it: either empty ocean or a mine.
If you find a mine bad things happen and the game is over. If you uncover an empty square, you survive and get to try again. We do give you a bit of help; if you find an empty piece of ocean a number is printed there telling you how many mines are in the adjacent squares (or no number if there are no nearby mines). Once you find a few clear squares you can start to deduce which squares have mines in them and which don’t. You win the game once you have revealed all the un-mined squares and marked all the mined squares.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- 8×8 with 10 mines.
- 16×16 with 40 mines.
- 30×16 with 99 mines.
- Custom.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Mines
Support:
Developer: Szekeres Istvan (Pista), Robert Ancell, Robert Roth
License: GNU General Public License 3.0
Mines is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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