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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? (https://hormuz.pythonic.ninja)

622 points by PythonicNinja about 18 hours ago | 425 comments | View on ycombinator

alecco about 16 hours ago |

https://sweepthestrait.com/ This one was made the first week of the war.

mppm about 15 hours ago |

Thank you for Making Minesweeper Great Again!

lukan about 16 hours ago |

Ok, I did win. Do I get cheaper gasoline now?

franze about 16 hours ago |

here is my version with algo generated levels and you have to navigate a ship from left to right

https://strait-sweeper.franzai.com/

galad87 about 17 hours ago |

It's missing the double click on a number feature from minesweeper.

seydor about 17 hours ago |

Hormuz is not a minefield though. According to sources, ships are moving near the coast of Iran, according to other sources they are being charged $2M per passage. According to other sources only Yuan paid oil is allowed.

jimnotgym about 17 hours ago |

Very very good satire. Well done

kentwistle about 17 hours ago |

Looks good but can’t play on iPad due to lack of right click.

tartoran about 13 hours ago |

us321 about 17 hours ago |

The missile feature is missing.

pimlottc about 11 hours ago |

"Mines only spawn on water" is a bit confusing; there are no clickable tiles that are fully on land, but tiles that touch land can also have mines. So I'm not sure what that is telling me.

roysting about 16 hours ago |

I have not finished a game, but I would be very disappointed if I didn’t get credit for stopping a war once I’ve won.

snickerbockers about 10 hours ago |

I was hoping that when i actually win i'd get a video of him doing that goofy dance he does.

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wiseowise about 13 hours ago |

Is there Ukraine-Russia DLC?

0dayman about 17 hours ago |

and missiles too, not just mines

justintiime about 16 hours ago |

Missing feature where you blanket nuke the whole area to destroy mines.

mkl95 about 12 hours ago |

That was only Q1! So much winning left!

excalibur about 11 hours ago |

Well done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.

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nullzzz about 15 hours ago |

Well done!

I don’t quite agree with making fun of the situation that’s deadly serious to many innocent people. Yet I’m sure the intentions of the author were good.

Hoping for peace.

shrubby about 13 hours ago |

Much winning such wow.

cyanydeez about 15 hours ago |

Every player action needs to be followed by a drone animation randomly crashing into the remaining tiles.

ReptileMan about 13 hours ago |

Click with both buttons to open all when cell is surrounded with right number of flags is not working or missing, which slows the game a lot.

selimthegrim about 14 hours ago |

How do I chord with a MacBook trackpad?

seboapps about 16 hours ago |

Great

shevy-java about 13 hours ago |

The smiley button does not seem to be doing anything.

Good to see minesweeper is still existing today.

As for "winning" - Trump will say everything, from A to the opposite Z. It is the flood-the-zone-with-shit strategy, as explained in the 1980s by Yuri:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk

So, rather than evaluate what Trump says, one has to evaluate what is happening.

What I see right now is the USA committing more and more to the invasion. Ground troops will come next; first as "limited range", lateron as Vietnam 2.0. Trump is kind of like Lyndon B. Johnson now, just that the country is Iran rather than Vietnam.

BoredPositron about 16 hours ago |

It's a piece about showing the detachment from war and you are arguing like idiots again. "Look how easy it is," you say. "Even a child could do it. Let me show you." And just two minutes later, there you are: huffing and puffing, bickering like you’re back on the schoolyard. The irony is almost as staggering as your ignorance.

abdusco about 17 hours ago |

Wonderful! Now make another app that lets you pick which children are ok to kill

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general_reveal about 16 hours ago |

Trump is trying to prompt the Straight like it’s ChatGPT.

ginko about 17 hours ago |

So is the message here that demining the strait of Hormuz will be fairly easy?

I was expecting some curve balls at the end with undecidable constellations but it was all quite straightforward.

ppap3 about 15 hours ago |

Hello folks. Some times I am afraid we are going to a place where there is only destruction and death.

No once can stop it alone But it can be stopped

hakrgrl about 15 hours ago |

How about you make an app about "winning" that involves flying a cargo plane loaded with so much cash to Iranian Islamists that it struggles to stay aloft. Because that was the strategy before Trump and it led to terror tunnels, terror proxies, and weapons grade nuclear enrichment.

Edit: For the record this actually happened 10 years ago under Obama.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-...

> Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.

torusle about 15 hours ago |

Yea.. having fun with war..

Most American post I have seen here since ages.