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I think it's obviously inspired by that. Too bad you can't click the board directly like in the original (which was apparently made 11 years ago).

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Like you say, it's obviously inspired by Flood-It. I should clarify: I had never heard of Flood-It before the Mac OS 9 port ("Assimilate") was posted to HN last month, and I was curious if that posting was what inspired this remake.

> the original (which was apparently made 11 years ago)

I'm not sure what the true original is--I found a still-playable version[1] from 2006, from back in the brief heyday of Web Gadgets and personalized web portals[2].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20061112004207/http://www.labpixi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle#Gadgets

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