Just Minesweeper
Free · play online in your browser, no download
Classic Minesweeper with a Windows 98 look and no ads, installable on a phone and playable offline.
Official site www.justminesweeper.com, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked as the hosted version (justminesweeper.com) in the README of the developer's own repository mnfjorge/minesweep, and the URL of the developer's Show HN post.
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Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Just Minesweeper
A free, ad-free Minesweeper in the browser, styled after the Windows 98 version. It has Easy, Normal and Hard boards plus a custom board size and mine count, a switch between revealing and flagging for touch screens, and a personal best-times board kept in the browser (custom games are not ranked). It is built as a progressive web app, so it can be installed on a phone and played offline. The developer, who signs the Hacker News post as Marcio, writes that a friend complained at a restaurant that app-store Minesweeper games are full of ads, so while they waited for their food the developer got Cursor to vibe-code this version; the repository says it was built in under an hour, “vibe-coded with Cursor background agents”, and lists two authors. The developer adds that the pair then spent about a week polishing it. Free to play at justminesweeper.com.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe developer's Show HN post says: “I got Cursor to vibe-code this minesweeper game as a PWA application so it can be installed and played offline.” The repository README gives the process as “vibe-coded with Cursor background agents” and says the project was built in under an hour while the authors waited for food at a restaurant; the post adds that they had been polishing it for about a week. No model and no code share are given.
- DeveloperShow HN post: “While we waited for our food, I got Cursor to vibe-code this minesweeper game as a PWA application so it can be installed and played offline.” — Hacker News
- DeveloperREADME: “Process: vibe-coded with Cursor background agents”. — GitHub
Vibe-coded with Cursor's background agents as a Next.js progressive web app, hosted on Vercel, by the README's account in under an hour, then polished for about a week. The repository README lists two authors (GitHub accounts mnfjorge and lscarneiro) and welcomes issues and pull requests.
“While we waited for our food, I got Cursor to vibe-code this minesweeper game as a PWA application so it can be installed and played offline.”Verification notes: AI use from the developer's Show HN post (15 Sep 2025, 18:20 UTC) and the README of the repository mnfjorge/minesweep, both re-read on 7 Nov 2026. Developer: the post is by the Hacker News account mnfjorge and signed “Marcio”; the README lists the authors as @mnfjorge and @lscarneiro, and the post says the developer made it with a friend. No surname, location or other personal details are given by the developer, so none are recorded (a surname suggested by the handle was not confirmed). Difficulty levels, the custom board, the flag/reveal switch, the local best-times board and the install banner come from the live site and its scripts (7 Nov 2026); the web app manifest names the game “Minesweeper”, and the title used here follows the domain. The site's scripts were checked for calls to AI services and none were found; they include Google Analytics and a sign-in library. The repository has no licence file; its code is public. The Windows 98 look is the developer's description of the visual style of a classic game type; no Microsoft names or assets were identified, so no IP notice is attached. The release date is not stated; the post (15 Sep 2025) says the game was made about a week earlier. The game was not played.
Development history
- Early September 2025
First version built with Cursor background agents in under an hour, by the developer's account about a week before the Show HN post.
The developer shares the game on Hacker News (Show HN, 18:20 UTC).
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Browser (official site)
Free, with no ads; installable as a progressive web app and playable offline.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Show HN: Ads-free Win98 minesweeper game vibe coded with Cursor Hacker News | Social post | Sep 15, 2025 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| mnfjorge/minesweep — README GitHub | Repository | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Minesweeper — justminesweeper.com (game page and scripts) mnfjorge | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) mnfjorge | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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