Wordmine is Minesweeper, Remixed Worpuzz has a grid like Minesweeper, but instead of mines, the grid hides words running horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Find the last letter of a word to score it, and finding the most words wins. One day I told Claude that “Worpuzz was made by remixing Minesweeper,” and Claude assumed Worpuzz must have numbers in it. I said, “No, Worpuzz doesn’t have numbers.” But that got me thinking — “what if I made a new game by adding numbers to Worpuzz?” That’s how Wordmine was born. Adding Numbers, Minesweeper-Style In Worpuzz Series, words are laid out horizontally, vertically, and diagonally, and the empty cells are filled with random letters. To keep those random letters from accidentally spelling real words and to keep the game moving quickly, I added clover and daisy icons — tapping one opens up the surrounding cells. In Wordmine, I removed the random filler letters entirely. Empty cells now show the count of letters in the surrounding cells,...