[rtpg]

Many many years ago I remember playing a free minesweeper that had, among other things, hexagonal maps as an option, but the big thing was that it guaranteed that you would never need to guess. You could always figure out the answer, and I believe there was a mode where if you clicked in a way where you couldn't have deduced the answer it would put a mine in there to punish you.

Anyone know what minesweeper software I'm thinking of?

[bigstrat2003]

Apart from the mine theme (and punishing you by putting in extra mines), that sounds like Hexcells. Very reminiscent of minesweeper, and you never have to guess.

[rtpg]

what I'm thinking of is, I believe, much older. I remember playing it before 2010 at least based on the machine I was playing it on. And it was distinctly "windows" styled: it looked like windows minesweeper!

[yifanl]

Likely not what you're thinking of, but there's a lot of variant modes in the Minesveeper advent calendars: https://heptaveegesimal.com/2022/minesveeper-zero/

[joe_guy]

You might be thinking of Tametsi. If not, it's a fantastic game to checkout.

[Doxin]

I don't know the name, but I distinctly recall a minesweeper clone that had hexagonal maps, triangular maps, and a bunch of other weird tilings.

[rtpg]

Yeah I think the one I played also had triangular maps.