head to head

Candy Crush Jelly SagavsMicrosoft Minesweeper

Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Microsoft Minesweeper leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Candy Crush Jelly SagaMicrosoft Minesweeper

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Microsoft Minesweeper leans harder on execution: Click speed only matters for leaderboard times

Reads1 vs 0

Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans harder on reads: Solo with no opponent to predict

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Microsoft Minesweeper leans harder on optimization: Constraint deduction from number clues is fully solvable logic

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Microsoft Minesweeper