Introducing BitcoinMinesweeper.com - Win BTC playing the ★real★ minesweeper

[RHavar]

If you're stuck on a move, you can request a hint, showing you the optimal way to continue.

I assume by optimal, you mean greedy (as it's NP-hard to calculate the optimal move without using hidden board state). So my question is, do you also use the greedy method to calculate the payout? Or put another way: If I always use your "request a hint" feature, I'll be playing with a 2% house edge?



Also have you given thought to how you prove you randomly distribute the mines? I assume you will need a client seed of some form. It appears that by non-random placement of mines, you can generate solutions that average significantly more difficult than random mine distribution, so to be provably fair you need to give users a way of controlling the shuffle.

[coingamblingreviews]

When will this game be up to play?!

[cryptocoiner]

I'd like to try it. May i ask for invitation?

[BitcoinMinesweeper.com]

Minesweeper is registered trademark , you may get problems with domain.

Thanks for the tip joksim! we're still in alpha so even the name is up for debate

[KingZee]

Hello. I just registered for an invite. E-mail : the.z.squared@gmail.com

Could you give me an invite?

And by the way is this like the normal Minesweeper on Windows? Or is it a different version, like for example the coinsweeper in my signature?

[elephantas1]

just tried it out the game is really hard if you dont play on 1.05x

[ttman]

Can i have an invite , i like to try it ? thank you

[blockage]

I would also like an invite. Which board configurations are you offering? Just the classic MineSweeper choices or can use arbitrary board size / number of mines?

[KingOfSports]

Please send me an invite and I will test your site and give you feedback on it accordingly. Thank you and good luck to your business.

[d4nin3u]

Somehow my Firefox crashes when I open the site, but Chrome does its job perfectly. Any idea?

[Shogen]

Somehow my Firefox crashes when I open the site, but Chrome does its job perfectly. Any idea?

I have no problem loading the site at all with Firefox 34 on Win 7.

[woookash]

hi,

I'd love to give it a try :-)

[yenzae0215]

Somehow my Firefox crashes when I open the site, but Chrome does its job perfectly. Any idea?

maybe you need to update your firefox.. my firefox works smoothly

[ndnh]

just tried it out the game is really hard if you dont play on 1.05x

Yeah, I think so. It is supposed to be easy for 1.05x.

I need an invite.

[yenzae0215]

tried the game and lost 20bits already.. but i still love it <3

[BitcoinMinesweeper.com]

Cool to see so many people are interested to be involved in the alpha test!

Rounds 1 and 2 of the invites have been handed out; the rest wil follow eventually,
so if you haven't been invited yet, please be patient.

We are very pleased to see the number of games already played by the current
alpha group and to hear the feedback. It seems we have hit upon something

We love the compliments, but we're also welcoming suggestions. We are listening!

[FunkWaffle]

I'd like an invite

[fildza]

I want to have a try to please

[BitcoinMinesweeper.com]

Do you have to pay for each hint, or you can buy hint packs (like 5, 10... at once), or are there free hints (every game, every day...)?

Right now, hints are totally free. That’s mainly because we haven’t gotten around to creating a good payment mechanism for them.

Enjoy!

[BitcoinMinesweeper.com]

If you're stuck on a move, you can request a hint, showing you the optimal way to continue.

I assume by optimal, you mean greedy (...)

Ahh, we’re getting technical, great! Minesweeper was indeed shown to be NP-complete, and therefore it quickly becomes infeasible to calculate optimal moves.
To determine hints, a greedy algorithm is employed.