💣 Minesweeper
🧩 Logic · 1 playsMinesweeper
Read the numbers, deduce where the mines lie, and clear the grid.
About Minesweeper
Mines are hidden across a grid, and every square uncovered reports how many of them sit in the eight cells around it. From those counts the position of each mine can be worked out, region by region, without guessing in all but a few positions. The skill lies in reading neighbouring numbers together rather than one at a time — a pair of adjacent clues often settles a square that neither could settle alone. Three board sizes are offered, and the opening square is always safe.
How to Play
Click or tap a square to uncover it; the number shown counts the mines touching that square. Right-click, or press and hold, to flag a square you believe hides a mine. Uncover every square that is not a mine to finish the board.
💡 Tips & Strategy
The numbers do all the work, but only if you read them in pairs. A single 1 beside three covered squares tells you little; that same 1 sitting next to a 2 whose mines are already accounted for usually resolves both. Always look at a clue in the context of its neighbours rather than alone.
Learn the 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 wall patterns. Along an edge of covered squares, a 1-2-1 means mine, safe, mine under the ones and twos respectively; a 1-2-2-1 means safe, mine, mine, safe. Recognising these on sight removes most of the mid-game grind.
Use counting when a region closes off. If a clue shows 3 and you have already flagged two of its neighbours, every remaining neighbour except one is safe — and if the count of covered squares equals the remaining mines, all of them are mines. Near the end, the global mine counter becomes a clue in its own right.
Flag sparingly. Flags are a memory aid, not a score, and over-flagging on a guess propagates a wrong assumption into every neighbouring deduction. When you genuinely must guess, prefer a square touching the fewest clues — it carries the least hidden information.