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 app randomly installed itself while I was charging my phone. Wordsweeper did this completely on its own, without my involvement or permission, while my phone was locked. It also opened up a suspicious webpage in my browser when I tried to open the app. I don't know how this app infested my phone. This experience has been incredibly creepy, and I hope Google/Android removes this malware from the play store soon. Edit: the suspicious webpage url was random letters & numbers, NOT twitter.

Great reproduction and thank you devs for making it free! Two caveats from being five stars. Biggest one is that the win condition is wrong, you win when you flag all mines but thats wrong, you should win when you open all safe squares. This especially messes with getting speed records, because flagging each mine takes about a second just to long press, whereas pros often won't even flag when playing minesweeper at all. Otherwise, first square should always be safe.