Minegauler

About

Minesweeper is a logic puzzle game genre, usually played on personal computers, in which players clear a grid of tiles without detonating hidden mines by using clues about neighboring mines. Minegauler is a remake of classic Minesweeper written in Python, offering the standard game plus many extra features. It is actively maintained, currently at version 4.2.0, with packaged builds for Windows, Linux and macOS.

How it differs from the original

It adds two difficulty levels beyond expert, a board editor with save/load, a safe-start option, up to three mines per cell, adjustable neighbor reach, a split-cell game mode, themes, and local highscores filtered by settings.

Getting started

Download the packaged executable for Windows, Linux or macOS from the GitHub releases page, or install it from PyPI with Python 3.9+ and run the minegauler command. On WSL you need an X server; on Linux, a core-dump crash may require installing an extra graphics library such as libxkbcommon-x11-0.

History

The author covers the project's history in a blog post linked from the README.

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Additional notes

Game info

After a loss, the game can show a completion percentage and a predicted finish time.