[unnouinceput]

Quote: "Recently, I had an idea: what if you had to play Minesweeper against the computer?"

For me that statement means player 2 played by computer. What he actually implemented is not that. Which gave me the idea to actually do that. Same rules as classic one, you click, another human click (or computer player) - loser is the one who reveals a bomb. In case nobody blows up winner is the one who is last to flag correctly a bomb on a guessing situation.

Ideas, constructive criticism is welcome. What you guys say?

[ekimekim]

There was a game a long time ago called "Minesweeper Flags" that was a 2-person minesweeper, except it worked in reverse.

When it was your turn, you'd reveal a tile. If it's a mine, you get a point and your turn continues. If it isn't, your turn is over and now your opponent has more information because of the square you revealed.

A great game that rewards following all the logic you have on the currently revealed board without the benefit of gaining more information as you go, as well as playing the odds when guessing. However, it had a tendancy to give a player an easy win if the other player happens to reveal a large blank area all at once.

[soylentgraham]

I definitely played this variant on MSN messenger. IIRC that service only ever managed to get 4 different games.

Such a shame, it was a good "hey someone's online, let's play a game" paradigm, words(etc) with friends have a problem of waiting around for a long time and things fizzle out.

I guess we'll never really get back a "hey I'm online atm" immediacy situation

[dspillett]

Perhaps rather than awarding a "draw" to the last click, go by points for area marked safe? I think that would be slightly less weighted towards random chance rather than strategy (though I welcome correction from anyone with time+inclination to run the maths or Sims!).