A Minesweeper variant with weighted mines, always solvable by logic
Details
- External ID
- 49186112
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A Minesweeper variant with weighted mines, always solvable by logic
- Website domain
- grimlings.co
- Launched
- Aug. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- low-level systems and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- logic puzzle game variant
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Grimlings is a Minesweeper variant with integer linear programming / constraint satisfaction board generation to guarantee logical solvability, which is a well-understood algorithm easily vibe-coded in a standard web tech stack.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ColorSweeper
Concerns raised: Stuck players need better guidance before revealing solutions, Paywall for ad removal ($5)
Feature requests: Hint system that highlights next solvable cell with logic explanation, Sketch/annotation mode to hypothetically place fangs and test scenarios, Ability to specify fang count in flags, Grey out numbers once adjacent spaces are sufficiently annotated
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1288 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1018 of 1289 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.