Sweeple

Sweeple, by ChrisLHall, is a browser game made in GameMaker Studio, with its source code published on GitHub. The board is a small grid, such as 4x6 with two bombs or a larger one with four. On each turn you choose a set of squares equal to the number of bombs and press GO.

Every square you picked that is not a bomb shows a number: the taxicab distance, counted horizontally plus vertically, to the nearest bomb. Squares that are bombs turn green. You can press a square twice to mark it with an X once you know it cannot hold a bomb, which helps narrow the field. To win you must select all of the bombs in a single turn, and you have six guesses.

As in Wordle, a hard mode makes you keep selecting the bombs you have already found. Each day has a daily challenge that is the same for everyone, and the result can be shared as a short text with the board size, the number of bombs, your guess count and a grid of coloured squares. After the daily, the reset button gives you random boards to keep playing.

The game's source shows how the daily is made. It turns the date on your device into a seed, and that seed picks the board size, the number of bombs and where they sit. The code has not changed since April 2022, but the date seed still gives a fresh board every day.

Sweeple is free on itch.io. The maker notes that on mobile you need to hold your finger down to select things in the game.