Wednesday, 22 January 2025

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The Puzzle Grand Prix is back! Round 1, authored by India, starts this Friday and runs until next Wednesday. Interested in participating? Check out https://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/puzzle-gp for the instruction booklet and solving instructions!

We occasionally like featuring genres from upcoming contests in GAPP. I spent a while trying to write a puzzle in one of the GP round's genres, but unfortunately inspiration did not strike. Instead, I dove into our spreadsheet again to see which genres haven't featured for a long time, and I was surprised to find we've only ever had one Minesweeper all the way back in 2021. Today we revisit this classic!

Rules: Place mines into some empty cells so that each clue has the indicated number of mines in the (up to) eight surrounding cells. Clued cells cannot be mines. A ? clue indicates an unknown amount of mines.

Previous Minesweeper:
Dec/21 by Tyrgannus: Archive: Sunday, 19 December 2021

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Competitive Coastal Miner 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by Tyrgannus): https://tinyurl.com/yjev7duu
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/2dyzd8p9