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Dev tools · August 17, 2017

A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir

A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir. - kevin-hanselman/mines

A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir launched on August 17, 2017 with 17 votes, #846 of 3,214 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

In plain words

A terminal-based minesweeper game implemented in Elixir, this project brings the classic puzzle to command-line environments. It is designed for developers interested in Elixir programming or those seeking a lightweight minesweeper implementation they can run in their terminal. The project demonstrates functional programming concepts through game logic written in Elixir and is available as open-source code on GitHub.

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