Re: Gnomine suggestion

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:58, Juhani Heino wrote:
> It seems that you are the manager regarding gnome-games.

Not any more, I'm forwarding this message to the games list.

> I had an idea that we could implement a "puzzle mode" in Gnomine.
> I've got fed up with patterns that don't give any sure information,
> so you must guess and often it explodes.
> 
> I've thought about it considerably and I think it's possible: The
> idea is that whenever you get stuck, you can press a "random"
> button to open a mine-free square. But if the program knows there
> is a square guaranteed mine-free, you explode.
> 
> Of course here the hard part is making the logic for the program.
> I've developed a concept that is general and works, but if there
> is a wide area opened, the operations get quite huge. With modern
> computers, that should not be a problem though.
> 
> So, if you are interested, ask me for more. But if you intend to
> keep it small and simple (good approach too), I won't bother
> experimenting on my own.
> 
> Juhani
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