Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do not understand how to play this game at all.

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• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  New player monster/object guide

  Since there’s no explanation in game of how the monsters behave I’ve put this together with the hopes it’ll make the initial experience a bit less frustrating for new players. Feel free to chime in if I get anything wrong or miss something and I’ll edit it in:

  WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PREFER TO DISCOVER THINGS ON YOUR OWN. SCROLL NO FURTHER

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  • X-Walls - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs. Can be destroyed if hit 3 times at a cost of 1 health per hit. Drops a coin worth 1 xp when destroyed.

  • 0-Starting Orb - reveals all tiles in two orthogonal (vertical/horizontal) tile radius when used. You should usually start by clicking this.

  • 0-Healing Scroll - restores life full. Also drops from Romeo and Juliet (9 power monsters)

  • 0-Clairvoyance Scroll - randomly reveals any random tile on the board and all 8 tiles around it.

  • 0-Gnome - ?? seems to teleport around randomly until you corner him eventually. Worth 9 xp

  • 0-Dragon Egg - spawns in one of the 8 spaces around the dragon (power 13 monster). Leave it in tact for an achievement. Worth 3 xp

  • 1-Rat - all of them can be revealed by defeating the rat king (power 5 monster) and using the scroll that drops from him. Avoid killing for achievement.

  • 1-Slime King - always spawns on the board edge surrounded by five Purple Slimes. Drops a scroll that reveals all Purple and Green Slimes.

  • 2-Bat - nothing special

  • 3-Skeleton - nothing special

  • 4-Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs

  • 5-Green Slime - all of them can be revealed by defeating the slime king (power 1 monster) and using the scroll that drops from him

  • 5-Beholder - replaces clues in a two orthogonal (vertical/horizontal) tile radius while alive.

  • 5-Rat King - drops a scroll that reveals all rats on the board

  • 6-Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him

  • 7-Guardian - nothing special

  • 8-Purple Slime - always spawns in a ring around the slime king (power 1 monster) along the edges of the board. All of them are revealed by using the scroll that drops from the slime king.

  • 9-Romeo and Juliet - drops a healing scroll on death. Leave them alive for an achievement

  • 10-Mine King - always spawns in one of the 4 corners of the board. Drops a scroll that disarms all mines in the board.

  • 11-Mimic - looks like a regular chest upon being revealed. Won’t fight you until you click it again after revealing it.

  • 13-Dragon - always spawns in the same spot on board near the center. A dragon egg (power 0 monster with 3 xp) will always spawn in one of the 8 tiles surrounding it. Defeat it to end the game with a win.

  • 100-Mine - the only way to disarm these is by defeating the mine king (power 10 monster) and using the scroll he drops. Disarmed mines are worth 3 xp

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  • draycs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The small rats point towards the rat king

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    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Woah didn’t know what one, mind blown thanks!

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  • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks!

    Rat King

    Ah, that’s what that blue bull with yellow hair is.

    some additional details

    > Gargoyle - always spawns in orthogonally (vertically or horizontally) adjacent pairs And they always face each other. > Minotaur - a treasure chest always spawns in one of the 8 spaces surrounding him And they always face away from the chest, but turn towards it when you open the chest. > Dragon - Defeat it to end the game with a win. Defeat it to get 13 gold, pick up gold to reveal crown, pick up crown to end game. But if you’re trying to collect all the gold you can, it’s OK to defeat the dragon and keep going a little.

    P.S. Syntax for spoiler markdown.

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    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Woah I’m still getting new stuff this is great! The Romeo and Juliet equidistant is particularly cool! Thank you! :o

      I’m using Sync for Lemmy which hasn’t updated in forever so its spoiler tag function is all borked for me :<

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• pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guessed wrong

  Image

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• Xraygoggles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Next to the dragon you have 216 and you know that the two squares above it, one is a mine and the other is a 3. This leaves one remaining square around the dragon that you know what it has to be by process of elimination because you haven’t seen it yet. I don’t know how to do spoilers but I’m sure you can crack the code here.

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• dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You sort of need to keep track of creature count but I feel like the game should do that for me, and not in a menu.

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  • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Having learned more about the patterns, I can see that I should have

    explored more near the (hint)

    6 since that’s a Minotaur ::: spoiler and there will be a (spoiler) chest by it.

    So with the board state as it was I couldn’t necessarily have done better, but better strategy could have let me survive on the same initial board.

    Still nowhere near the times some people are posting though.

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• xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have found that “slitherlink” scratches that “minesweeper without needing to guess” itch.

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• Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A friend linked it in a Discord server recently and I’ve been enamored since. This recent update last week really made it harder. But like Minesweeper, sometimes you just gotta guess. I like to guess a few random spaces for my first energy bar, apart from the initial orb, so I crash out early if I do.

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unlike in minesweeper, it’s possible to make a bad move early on which later causes you to enter a situation where you’re forced to guess.

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have you ever won?

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I did it on my eigth or ninth try. I lost several times due to stupid mistakes, clicking on a mine when I forgot that there was a 1xx clue next to it, seeing only that xx was small.

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    • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I guess I just haven’t gotten the hang of it yet.

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  • frosty99c@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s very possible to defeat the dragon. I can do it pretty regularly after a day of heavy playing. Getting the achievements is tougher. And I still haven’t gotten a clean wipe yet (I’ve been 1 tile away twice though)

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    • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was one heart away from getting 13 hearts, but at that point I was out of options. 😫

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• daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s new as compared to MamonoSweeper from years ago?

  warpdoor.com/…/mamonosweeper-minesweeperrpg-hojam…

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• Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That was dope! 363/365 points 😎

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• mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The game is fun but man it was rough figuring out all the monster abilities. I wish they’d improve the monsternomicon to actually tell you what the monsters do. Like I still don’t know how the gnome monster works.

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  • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah that one’s a mystery to me. Sometimes disappears, sometimes gives you gold. I was wondering if it’s related to the blue bull in some way.

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    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      From what I could tell the gnome teleports to a random still-covered empty tile and dies when there’s nowhere left to run.

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    • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think if you find all the gnomes is when it gives you gold.

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• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This looks fun! Also check out Tametsi.

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  • pageflight@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fun, even works on Linux (Ubuntu) after turning on Proton for all games. I like the level-based design.

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