Minesweeper
(Published on 16. December 2025, 11:09 by juggler)
Normal 6x6 Sudoku rules apply.
MINESWEEPER
- Shade some cells ("mines") and leave some unshaded ("cleared"). Two cleared cells are shown.
- Each digit in a cleared cell indicates how many mines are in the (up to 8) surrounding cells.
- No two 2x3 boxes have the same number of mines.
Solution code: Digits on mines in the top two rows
Comments
yesterday, 17:37 by Darion
The description of the solution could be slightly better. I thought it was the total number of mines in the top two rows. Or, second try was number of mines in row one and two separately (two digits).
Maybe "Digits in/of the mines in the top two rows would be a little bit more clear?"
Other than that, I had a a lot of fun solving this puzzle - thank you for this!
on 29. December 2025, 23:52 by Kleiner_Lateiner
Nice, at first I thought I might have overlooked a rule but after the first cell it was pretty smooth sailing
on 23. December 2025, 02:11 by johnreid
B)
on 21. December 2025, 17:50 by Voidslime
Another beautiful beast! I came in with so much confidence but the logic here really broke my brain (in a good way)!
on 20. December 2025, 23:55 by Jensa
Very cool!
on 19. December 2025, 17:10 by galium_odoratum
Beautiful!
on 19. December 2025, 16:58 by Lego7656
Thank you, that was so much fun.
on 18. December 2025, 12:42 by Hengist
Amazing!
on 18. December 2025, 10:29 by xiaoji
Very interesting rules! Once I take another way of viewing the rules, everything becomes very smooth. Thanks for your combination of mine-doku.
on 18. December 2025, 05:23 by hamosphere
17min, a fun one once i got my head around the rules.
on 17. December 2025, 17:01 by Calvinball
That was so cool! When can we expert the 99 mine version?! :P
on 17. December 2025, 16:31 by kagiso
We need a full sized version of this. At first I didn't understand the rules but this was so lovely to solve afterwards.
on 17. December 2025, 13:44 by Qodec
Haha, brilliant!
on 17. December 2025, 11:38 by superkinkel
Absolutely brilliant. While wasting hours on Minesweeper back in the day, I never had as much fun as with this one.
on 17. December 2025, 05:38 by walid_tun
I totally agree with others, this is a fun puzzle. We need more of this type.
on 17. December 2025, 05:21 by Crusader175
Very cool miracle puzzle!
on 17. December 2025, 03:20 by marty_sears
What a stunner! Up there with the very best 6x6s I've done. Perfect ruleset with a miraculous and always satisfying flow, right up until the fantastic ending. Could not be improved. Felt so much like a discovery, I'm very curious how much work went on behind the scenes to find a working solution, or did it all fall into place magically?
on 17. December 2025, 02:56 by Kafkapharnaum
Always a fan of minesweeper-type sudokus, and that was/is surely a quintessential one -- well done to you two!
on 17. December 2025, 02:52 by Playmaker6174
@soyorin: it only seems so… when in doubt, either look at the rule set again or check what happens on certain remaining cells.
on 17. December 2025, 02:41 by soyorin
It seems that the solution is not unique in blocks 1,2,4. And I'm not sure in which format the solution code is expected. :(
The rule set is quite funny and I really enjoyed a lot from the beginning part.
Modified: Thanks to @Playmaker6174, I read the rulesets over and over again and finally figure out what "Normal 6*6 Sudoku rules apply" means. I should also fill numbers into the shaded cells. Very nice puzzle! Enjoyed a lot.
on 17. December 2025, 02:10 by Tank
Wow, just wow! Such an amazing puzzle
on 17. December 2025, 00:44 by Nordy
Awesome puzzle! I'm amazed that it exists and solves sooo cleanly
on 17. December 2025, 00:16 by ElenaMonteille
Wow! This is the first puzzle I met in such a brilliant rule set. And it's gonna be my favourate rule set in the next 10 years. Thank you so much for this perfect puzzle! I'm looking forward to more!
It took me some minutes to get my mind straight with the rules. At first I thought 0-8 are all valid fill-in's as in minesweeper. I then read the rules again -- "Normal 6x6 Sudoku rules apply", well, I had to explicitely unfold the definition of "Normal 6x6 Sudoku rules" in my head, and then I finally understood it correctly.
on 16. December 2025, 23:30 by wuc
Fantastic. The good old win95 times. Great setting thx.
on 16. December 2025, 22:53 by sparkymanu
Absolutely brillant and creative puzzle, very fun to solve, thank you so much for sharing!
on 16. December 2025, 20:24 by brandon_bot
@Martina This is not like a fog puzzle where there is some action to reveal more of the puzzle.
If you do decide to shade a cell as "cleared", then it's an assertion that the cell's value indicates the number of surrounding mines. Quite a strong assertion... perhaps helpful to think about which cells could/could not be cleared.
on 16. December 2025, 19:25 by Exigus
Amazing that it works. Very cool adaptation, thanks!
on 16. December 2025, 19:20 by dzamie
That was really cool! It took me a bit to figure out what was going on - my Minesweeper experience kept reading the blank cleared cell as a 0 (rather than an unknown 1-6), which confused me for a while.
I'd love to see more of this mixture :D
on 16. December 2025, 19:17 by Wiggel
This is by far the best adaptation of minesweeper I have ever seen, in any medium. Brilliant puzzle, it was a joy to solve.
on 16. December 2025, 19:06 by gfoot
Cute little puzzle, great idea well executed!
on 16. December 2025, 18:53 by Suxamethonium
Another miracle-adjacent sudoku from Juggler. Incredible. It's a real skill to make easy puzzles that feel this satisfying.
on 16. December 2025, 18:47 by Martina
What do I have to do to clear the cells?
on 16. December 2025, 16:26 by Playmaker6174
Neat setting for a 6x6, I enjoyed the solve overall. Thank you both :)
on 16. December 2025, 13:31 by vidarino
Very neat! Quite miraculous that it solves uniquely with so few rules. Thanks!
on 16. December 2025, 11:48 by StefanSch
Nice puzzle idea!
