Re: gnomine solver

[David Bellot <bellot stat berkeley edu>]

> I've never seen a two player mine-sweeper before but if you can point out
> a free/freeware/shareware version somewhere I'd be interested to try it
> out.
>  
As far as I know, there's no multiplayer mine-sweeper. But let's try to 
invent a new one ;-)

> The last intersting variant on mine-sweeper I saw had flowers instead of
> mines and included messsages about the horrors that antipersonnel mines
> inflicted on civilians.
>
>  
It's sound like a theme. Nice idea.

> I always a little sceptical of games i haven't seen before and I'm not
>
> sure how this kind of competition would be all that much fun (games like
> "Four in a row" or "tic tac toe" (noughts and crosses) aren't much fun
> against a computer).
>  
OK ok so let's try a global thermonuclear war, professor Falken.
I don't know if a 2-players mine-sweeper would be nice. Why not ?
It's just a propositon.

> It there was a way to make mines work as a continuous game it might be
> fun.
Do you mean : no limit in the game or just limited by time ?

> > Another kind of game would be to play on the same board against the
> > computer.
> > At each turn, a player chooses a square. Depending on the number of
> > squares which are erased, the player can play one or more turn after. If
> > at the next try, the player discover less squares than the previous try,
> > then his/her number of tries is decreased so that to avoid a cumulating
> > effect. Then you must be lucky to continue otherwise it's computer's
> > turn and so on...
> >    
>
> Sounds a bit like battle ships now that i think of it.
> I'm probably too skeptical, maybe it could be fun.
>
>  
Looks like yes. But in this case you can calculate where are the mines 
and choose the best one in order to have credit to play several times 
before it's computer's turn.

David