Well it is different, you can have multiple solutions in this variant. Classical minesweeper is not like that. Imagine a grid with just a 1 and the rest is empty. There are then eight different solutions. The same situation can't happen in classical, it is simply going to reveal everything except the predetermined mine.
Because of this ambiguity, the search space is much larger here. Source : I play A LOT of Minesweeper.
Thanks for the feedback would love to talk more with someone that plays a lot of minesweeper if you have the time?
Sunflowers still only ever has one valid solution across all difficulty levels, but would like to understand more why that is not clear to a veteran player
Have been playing it quite a bit since the submission as well.
I have to echo the pencil mode being able to win feedback which absolutely ruins it for me - some sequences require penciling quite a bit to find the failing condition which leads to me winning by accident in pencil mode which just feels horrible and sort of cheat-y (I just happend the pencil the winning solution but I didn't solve it as intended)
Overall the game is great and I have been enjoying the daily masters and some of the insane puzzles.
P.S. the submit feedback does not work, something about needing the confirm the form or similar.
A reverse minesweeper would be: bombs are given, and you have to place the numberical hints.