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            <h1 id="title">Anonymine - guess free minesweeper</h1>

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                <p>Latest version: 0.7.0 released on 2026-04-29

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                    You can try it on my demo server using SSH.

                    Log in as play@anonymine-demo.oskog97.com,

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            <h2>About</h2>
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                Anonymine is the "anonymous minesweeper" as I never had any

                name for it, but I think "Anonymine" works just fine.

                Back in December 2015 I was curious about creating an algorithm

                for solving minesweeper, and then I needed an excuse for it

                so I turned it into a terminal game that can be solved wihout any

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                Do note that it runs in the terminal, so it may not be your cup of

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                Being solvable without guessing is not its only feature,

                it has many other unusual or even unique features:

                the games are fully customizable and Anonymine seems to be the

                only minesweeper with <span class="a"><a

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                For each game you can set the field type (normal / hexagonal

                / von Neumann), width, height and number of mines, only

                restricted to certain minimums and security limits (to avoid

                igniting your computer).

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            <h3>The supported field types/game types are:</h3>

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            <h4>Von Neumann grids</h4>
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                    I have never seen another

                    minesweeper that can have fields with von Neumann

                    grids.  In a von Neumann neighbourhood (grid),

                    each cell/square has only four neighbours, at the edges

                    but not at the corners.

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                    The biggest number you'll ever see is 3. But that doesn't

                    mean it's easy, it's quite the opposite.

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            <h4>Traditional fields with Moore grids</h4>

                <p>Like any other minsweeper.</p>

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                    Every cell is a hexagon and has six

                    neighbours, (with obvious exceptions).

                    This mode has separate key bindings because there is no

                    single "up" and single "down" direction.

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                    It looks almost fine on monochrome terminals.

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                    Even the losers can get on their very own highscores table.

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                    There are cheat codes. They're not useful, but will be a

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            <p><strong>NOTE</strong>:  Not for smartphones and tablets.</p>

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                <a href="#dl-unix">Linux, macOS, unix-likes, Haiku</a>,

                <a href="#dl-windows">Windows</a>,

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            <p><a href="https://oskog97.com/archive/anonymine/?C=M&amp;O=A"

                  class="printurl">Archive of all released versions</a></p>

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            <h3 id="dl-unix">GNU/Linux, macOS, *BSD, Cygwin, other unix-like

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                <li><a href="https://oskog97.com/archive/anonymine/anonymine-0.7.0.tar.xz"

                    class="printurl download">xz compressed tarball of version 0.7.0 from 2026-04-29</a></li>

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                    href="https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/">GitLab</a></li>

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                <li><strong>Recommended:</strong> WSL (both 1 and 2 work just fine)</li>

                <li>Automatic Cygwin and Anonymine installer</li>

                <li>Install Python and windows-curses</li>

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            <p><a href="https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/-/wikis/Windows"

                >Comparison of options</a></p>

            <h4>Automatic Cygwin installer</h4>

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                <li><a href="https://oskog97.com/archive/anonymine/windows/Anonymine-Windows-19.0-stage2-1.20-cygsetup-2.937.zip"

                    class="printurl download">Windows installer from 2026-04-29

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                    with Cygwin setup 2.937)

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            <h4>Install Python and windows-curses</h4>

            It is possible to run the unix version with some limitations.

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                <li>You can download as a zip from <span class="a"><a

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                    The von Neumann field: The biggest number you'll ever see

                    is 3.  This mode makes Anonymine a unique minesweeper.

                    (Attention mode has been enabled to find the last few

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                Check the <a class="printurl"

href="https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/-/blob/master/README.md#blob-content-holder"

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href="https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.txt"

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                Here's a list of various platforms Anonymine has been tested

                on.  It works on all of them unless I say otherwise, but there

                may be some minor issues.

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                <li>Various GNU/Linux distributions</li>

                <li>FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD</li>

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                <li>OpenIndiana and Solaris</li>

                <li>Debian GNU/Hurd</li>

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                <li>Windows and ReactOS (without Cygwin)</li>

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            <h4>"Some coercion required"</h4>

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    - SerenityOS (First in 0.6.26, at least 0.6.38 required due to Python)

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