A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

The Mines is a very simple minesweeper game. Initially written with PyGame while watching an ice hockey game on TV - I ported it to Rust and added score keeping and some minimal UX.

The game controls like most other minesweeper games. Left click on a position will reveal what is beneath it. If it's a bomb the game is over. The number of dots on a square tells you how many bombs are adjacent to that position. 

Flag a position with a click of the right mouse button; the number of unflagged mines is in the top left corner. Flagged positions are marked with a big green square, and a left click on them are totally safe. Left click on a number and adjacent positions will be revealed if there are the correct number of flags around it.

Pressing the box at the top will start a new game.

Toggle full screen mode with F11, and if you for some reason want to reset your high score, Ctrl-R is your friend.

Download

Download
the-mines-win.zip 1 MB
Download
the-mines-linux-x86-64.zip 230 kB

Install instructions

The linux version is built and tested only in linux mint 21.2. Hopefully it work on most linux distros as long as SDL2 is installed.


Windows version includes  SDL2.dll that needs to be in the same directory as the executable.

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