MemeSweeper
Chat-driven Minesweeper — sweep the grid, dodge the memes
Category: Puzzle · Players: free-for-all · Status: Beta
MemeSweeper is in beta — details may change.
Minesweeper for the whole chat, with the mines re-skinned as memes. Everyone works one shared board: type a coordinate to reveal a cell, read the numbers to deduce where the memes hide, and flag the ones you’ve worked out. Reveal a meme and you get clowned — you’re out. Clear every safe cell together and the board is swept.
Gameplay
Type a coordinate like d5 (column D, row 5) to uncover it. The very first
reveal of the game is always safe.
A revealed number counts the memes touching that cell. A blank (zero) cascades open its neighbours — a big free reveal.
Mark a suspected meme with flag d5 (or f d5). Correct flags score at the
end; wrong ones cost nothing.
How the board works
The numbers are the whole game: each one counts the memes in the eight cells around it. Step on a meme and you’re out; a blank cell opens a cascade.
- Numbers count memes. A cell’s number is how many of its eight neighbours are memes; a blank has none and opens the surrounding cells automatically.
- A cascade is yours. Every cell a blank cascade uncovers is credited to whoever triggered it.
- First reveal is safe. The board seeds its memes around the opening cell, so the first click never loses.
- Step on a meme, you’re out — unless a lifeline saves you (see Gifts). The meme still reveals so chat learns where it was.
Configuration
| Option | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Difficulty | Beginner (9×9, 10 memes) · Intermediate (12×12, 25 memes) · Expert (12×12, 40 memes) | Beginner (9×9, 10 memes) |
| Custom memes | Your own images | — |
| Lifeline gift | a gift that grants a save | Off until set |
Board size. How large the grid is — bigger boards take the room longer to clear.
Meme count must leave at least one safe cell; a denser board is riskier.
Lifeline gift. An optional gift that banks a save (see Gifts).
Layout
- Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
- Progress strip — safe cells remaining and survivor count.
- Board — the shared grid; revealed cells show their number or a meme.
- Gift strip — the lifeline gift when configured.
- Leaderboard — players ranked by cells uncovered.
The game moves through Lobby → Active → Finished.
Gifts
MemeSweeper’s lifeline gift banks a save. If you step on a meme with a lifeline in hand, it’s spent automatically — you survive and keep playing, and the meme still reveals so the board stays honest. It’s off unless the host sets it.
Scoring
- +1 per cell you uncover — including every cell in a cascade you set off.
- +1 per correctly-flagged meme at the end of the game; wrong flags carry no penalty.
- The game ends when the board is cleared or everyone has been clowned; the top score wins, and ties are shipped as co-winners.
- Points feed the per-streamer tally behind avatar ring tiers. Wins are tracked per streamer.