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If curious see also

yesterday's Minesweeper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24770616

pure HTLM/CSS Minesweeper (a few months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920987

boot sector Minesweeper (ditto): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23360133

Minesweeper with a twist (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883875

infinite multiplayer Minesweeper (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854494

Other threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Midway through this project, I ran into that pure HTML one here and chuckled that someone else was making their variant as well. It really cracked me up! Then there was another, and then I ran into another (yesterday's), so I went ahead and shared mine.

Obviously programmers like to reconstruct things as a hobby, make their own implementations, clones. Just surprising how many of us picked minesweeper. For me it was probably the fact that it didn't come with Windows 10, maybe, when I was jonesing to play it. Also I wanted to see if hexagons would work, without knowing about or seeing similar variants.

I'm glad I did this because it gave me first-hand working experience in a few theoretical things I knew would work but I didn't know what their quirks were, like setting up websockets/socket.io to work with SSL, using multiple rotating apache backends with a graceful restart to perform upgrades without downtimes, responsive and fast SVG rendering techniques.

That's utterly awesome and I hope the links didn't come across as "this has already been done"—quite the contrary—the intention is just "here are cool similar things if anyone's curious". A hexagonal version is a noble and clever addition!

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