What is Jawaker’s Minesweeper?
Jawaker’s Minesweeper is an opponent-based puzzle game. It requires players to race each other to reveal a grid of numbers, while avoiding scattered exploding mines, within a 5-minute time limit.
Its Components:
The grid has 25 rows and 10 columns with 40 mines placed randomly in the puzzle. Each grid is divided into blocks. Blocks have three states, as follows:
1. Opened: Blank and clickable
2. Opened: Exposed
3. Flagged: Marked by the player to indicate a potential mine location
Rules of Play:
- Each player starts off with 3 lives and an empty scoreboard. Their points are collected based on how many blocks they have revealed, and how many lives they have used.
- The game starts with an area of open blocks. Both players start there, having the same grid and identical mine locations.
- If players tap on a block located over a mine, they don’t lose the game. Instead, they lose 1 life and 100 points.
- Players earn points by uncovering new sections of the grid.
- Players can flag blocks that they think are covering a mine.
- Players perform a tactic called “chording”. If an uncovered block has a number that matches the number of flags adjacent to it, players can choose to tap to reveal 8 adjacent unmarked blocks.
Note: the numbers on the opened blocks refer to the number of mines adjacent to them.
How to win:
The “best case scenario”:
Revealing the full grid in the shortest amount of time, without losing any lives! But if that doesn’t happen, you can still win based on your time and points.
The “back from the dead”:
Your score can still save you! If you use all your lives, your score is saved and the game continues. If your opponent scores higher than you, you lose. But, if the game time ends or your opponent uses all his/her lives, whoever has the highest points wins.
Points System:
- Each safe block adds 10 points
- Each tapped mine subtracts 100 points
- Each remaining second on your time adds 1 point