About this game
Minesweeper became world-famous as a built-in Windows game, and it remains one of the best pure-logic puzzles ever designed. Behind the grid hide a fixed number of mines. Each square you open shows how many mines touch it (including diagonals). From those numbers alone you can deduce — never guess — where the mines are.
This version includes the three classic difficulty levels (9×9 with 10 mines, 16×16 with 40, 16×30 with 99), a guaranteed-safe first click, flagging, and 'chording' — clicking a satisfied number to open all its remaining neighbors at once. Your fastest time for each difficulty is saved locally.
How to play
- Click / tap a square to reveal it. Your first click is always safe.
- A number tells you how many of its 8 neighbors contain mines.
- Right-click (or long-press on mobile) to flag a suspected mine 🚩.
- When a number already has the right amount of flags around it, click the number to open the rest of its neighbors instantly.
- Reveal every safe square to win — flagging all mines is optional.
Tips & strategy
- Start with corners of opened areas — patterns like 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 have fixed solutions worth memorizing.
- A '1' touching exactly one unopened square means that square is 100% a mine.
- Use chording constantly: it's the biggest speed boost in the game.
- If you're truly forced to guess, prefer the square with the lowest surrounding numbers.
Frequently asked questions
Can Minesweeper always be solved without guessing?
Not always — some boards force a 50/50 at the end. But well over 90% of situations are solvable by pure deduction, and good players guess far less than beginners think.
What does the mine counter show?
The total number of mines minus the flags you've placed. It doesn't confirm your flags are correct!
What are the standard difficulty settings?
Beginner 9×9/10 mines, Intermediate 16×16/40, Expert 16×30/99 — the same layouts used in classic Minesweeper and in competitive play.