Open every square that hides no mine. Each number tells you how many mines touch that square, so you can work out where the mines are and flag them.
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Play Minesweeper free in your browser: the classic mines logic puzzle on Beginner, Intermediate and Expert boards, with a safe first tap, flags, chording, hints and your best times.
The board is a grid of covered squares, and some of them hide mines. Your goal is to open every square that does not hide a mine. Tap a covered square to open it. If it is a mine, the game is over. If it is safe, it shows a number from 1 to 8: how many mines touch that square, counting the squares above, below, to the sides and on the diagonals. A square with no mines around it is blank, and the game opens all of its neighbours for you, so one tap can clear a whole area.
Use the numbers to work out where the mines are. When you are sure a square hides a mine, flag it: press and hold the square until the ring fills, or tap the Flag button at the bottom (it turns red) and then tap squares; tap it again to go back to digging. The counter at the top shows how many mines are still unflagged. Once a number has all its mines flagged, tap the number to open all its other neighbours in one go. The first tap of every game is always safe and always opens an area. You win when every safe square is open; the clock is your score, and a fast win earns a medal. On a phone the Expert board scrolls: use the arrow buttons or drag the board.
Beginner is the classic 9 by 9 board with 10 mines, a good size to learn on. Intermediate is 16 by 16 with 40 mines. Expert is the standard 30 by 16 board with 99 mines, shown upright on a phone so the squares stay big enough to tap. Each mode keeps its own games played, wins, win streak, best time and medals: bronze for a win, silver for a win under par time, gold for a win under par without Hint or Undo.
Yes. The mines are placed after your first tap, never on that square and never on the eight squares around it, so the first tap always opens an empty area with numbers along its edge.
Press and hold a covered square for about a third of a second until the ring fills, or tap the Flag button so that your taps place flags. Tap it again to go back to digging. On a computer, right-click a square.
If you have flagged as many squares around a number as the number shows, tapping it opens all of its other covered neighbours at once. This is called chording. If one of those flags is wrong, the chord sets off a mine.
Beginner is 9 by 9 with 10 mines, Intermediate is 16 by 16 with 40 mines, and Expert is 30 by 16 with 99 mines. On a phone the Expert board stands upright and scrolls with the arrow buttons or by dragging.
Sometimes. Most of a board can be solved by logic, but now and then two squares are exactly as likely to hide a mine. Hint shows a square it can prove is safe, or the least risky square when nothing can be proven.
Yes. It runs in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no app, no account and no download. Your best times and win streak are kept on your device for each board size.
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