[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