Hey man, I thought it would be really cool to figure out how to make a bot that will play minesweeper, specifically googles browser version, but the only way I could think of to do this would take a heck ton of image searches. Got any ideas on how I could pull something like that off?
Just programming a minesweeper solver is hard enough. I remember programming minesweeper in class on my graphing calculator and there's a surprising amount you have to keep track of. Yea image searching might be your best bet. The first thing I'd try to do is write something that can get a picture of the game stage seperately maybe by image searching on every tile and then from there figure out what you need to do. You could also do a rolling update where when each tile is clicked you get the state of that specific tile using image search on that exact location and then as you go keep track of the board state. Sounds like a fun project!