A minimalistic, functional Minesweeper implementation in F# for the terminal. No mutable state, pure console gameplay with colored characters.

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• Interface
  • Command-line parameters
  • In-Game Commands
• How-To Build Release

System requirements: Windows 10 x64, .NET Desktop Runtime 10.0.
Linux and macOS are also supported with the corresponding .NET runtime.

ℹ️ For the best experience, use a modern UTF-8 terminal with emoji support, such as Windows Terminal (wt).

finesweeper [width] [height] [mines] [seed]

• width - board width [3..26] default 12
• height - board height [3..26] default 12
• mines - number of mines [3..99] default 10
• seed - optional random seed (signed integer)

ℹ️ The board will be the same for the same seed value.

finesweeper
finesweeper 10 10 20
finesweeper 15 15 30 54321
finesweeper --help -h /? help

• r X Y (r-Reveal) - Reveal the contents of the cell at column X and row Y.
  • X is a letter representing the horizontal coordinate (column).
  • Y is a number representing the vertical coordinate (row).
• f X Y (f-Flag) - Place or remove a flag on the cell at column X and row Y to mark a suspected mine.
• q (q-Quit) - Exit the game immediately.

For example:

|> r a 1
|> f e 3
|> q

dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true -p:PublishTrimmed=true