[Pops to fire up Windows Minesweeper for the first time in months…]
Yes, I'm describing Windows Minesweeper. And probably Minesweeper more generally.
If you don't want configurability, maybe "solve" could show a comparison between where you'd got to before giving up, and the full situation, in the way other Minesweepers do when you die. Then people could choose to see that comparison whenever seemed appropriate — at first failure, or never, or somewhere in between as the mood took them.
Incidentally, as a minor user interface consistency issue, I regard the pencil marks in Solo, locking in Net and flagging in Mines as essentially the same activity: the user making notes to themself while solving the puzzle. It feels just subtly wrong to me that this is achieved using the right-hand mouse button in Solo and Mines, but the middle mouse button in Net.
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Yes, I'm describing Windows Minesweeper. And probably Minesweeper more generally.
If you don't want configurability, maybe "solve" could show a comparison between where you'd got to before giving up, and the full situation, in the way other Minesweepers do when you die. Then people could choose to see that comparison whenever seemed appropriate — at first failure, or never, or somewhere in between as the mood took them.
Incidentally, as a minor user interface consistency issue, I regard the pencil marks in Solo, locking in Net and flagging in Mines as essentially the same activity: the user making notes to themself while solving the puzzle. It feels just subtly wrong to me that this is achieved using the right-hand mouse button in Solo and Mines, but the middle mouse button in Net.