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Making Explainable Minesweeper

Many Minesweeper situations that seem like 50/50 luck are actually solvable through logical deduction. Inspired by ‘14 Minesweeper Variants,’ I created ‘Explainable Minesweeper’ - a game that generates only logically solvable puzzles and explains the reasoning in natural language.

Actually, when I played Minesweeper, which was a default Windows game, I could solve cases where there was a definite answer, but I remember stepping on countless mines in ambiguous situations. While it’s relatively easy to understand when explained in natural language like this, that game, although excellent, shows this with symbols, which took me a long time to interpret. By solving the problem using intuitive results and deduction rules, we were able to reveal all non-mine regular cells, so this map is usable.

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