Japanese Minesweeper (Intermediate)
(Published on 28. March 2026, 00:00 by cyddrdrd)
Minesweeper is back! Your goal is to find all the hidden mines in the grid. This time, however, all clues are given as Japanese sums outside the grid, so no numbers inside the cells are given!
Just like classic Minesweeper, I prepared three levels for you:
Here is the Intermediate. This is larger and really challenging according to testers' feedback. As there is no automatic count, you may want to keep track of the mines. Be careful, and have fun!
Rules
- Classic Minesweeper: There are some mines in the grid. Every clued cell (i.e., a non-mine cell that is orthogonally or diagonally adjacent to at least one mine) contains a digit equal to the number of adjacent mines. Cells not adjacent to any mine are left empty.
- Japanese Sums: Clues outside the grid represent the sum of digits in each contiguous sequence of clued cells, in the order of appearance from left to right or top to bottom. Consecutive sequences must be separated by at least one mine cell or one empty cell.
A '?' represents any digit from 0 to 9. For a double-digit number, its first digit cannot be 0.
Main puzzle (16x16, 40 mines):
SudokuPad (no solution check)
Example puzzle (6x6, 5 mines):
It is highly recommended to try the example first to get familiar with the ruleset.
SudokuPad (example)
Solution code: From left to right, the number of mines in each column. For the example puzzle, it would be 101021.
Last changed on on 11. April 2026, 13:01
Solved by MonsieurTRISTE, Christounet, nuzzopa, Piatato, Tom-dz, Paletron, JustinTucker, Jesper, pandiani42, BeeBoi, misko, WedgeOfCheese, SPring, booteskey, NXTMaster
Comments
on 1. April 2026, 21:36 by Jesper
Good fun!
on 28. March 2026, 10:52 by Piatato
Awesome! Very fun and smooth puzzle!
on 28. March 2026, 01:09 by Christounet
Now that's a minefield! Some very tricky steps in this one for me, but I enjoyed testing it. Thanks :)
on 28. March 2026, 00:10 by MonsieurTRISTE
N. B. The total number of mines is given.
