WordSweeper - Word Minesweeper

Arbel I.

About this game

Are you down for a challenge?

Introducing WordSweeper. With a whole new level of complexity.
Classic Minesweeper gets old really fast so we added a new dimension to the game. Numbers are too easy so we chose to be using words!

Have you heard of the games Wordle and Semantle? These are two of the most popular word games out there. One of them was even featured by the New York Times. WordSweeper brings the same charectaristics that such games have, and mix them really well with the good old minesweeper game.

The goal in WordSweeper simple. Don't press the "bomb" word. Each round a random word is chosen. Your goal is to flag all the locations where it might exist using a long press.

Example:
The exploding word is "Saturday"
Related Words (ex. "Sunday") - have three or more bombs in the 8 tiles surrounding them.
Partially Related Words (ex. "September") - two bombs
Non Related Words (ex. "Laundry") - one bomb

Sometimes the English words that our algorithm chooses are not commonly known. For that you will be able to press them once the round is over, and see their translation.

Good luck.

Ratings and reviews

Used to be great, but suddenly it's not regular minesweeper anymore. Minesweeper as a word-game doesn't make any sense at all, because there's no exact correlation between the word and the mines around it. Regardless if the developer thinks this is better, it is not what I wanted when I installed it. They should have made it a new app or a game mode within the app instead of this bait-n-switch. This is like what Malware does.

This used to be a perfectly okay minesweeper game, but overnight an update turned it into a minesweeper–word game hybrid, which I have no interest in playing. There are no longer numbers indicating the number of mines adjacent to a tile. The mines are assigned a word. How related the word on a tile is to the bomb word is supposed to indicate the number of mines around a tile. Colors indicate the number of mines too, but tiles with 3 or more mines are indistinguishable, all being the same color.

Game works fine, but the way it runs isn't set up like classic minesweeper. You are *not* gaurenteed a safe pick first click per usual, the board is set when you click reset. This can lead to frustrating starts to games. Aside from that, when you actually get a chance to solve a game, it works quite well.