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Minesweeper
Play Minesweeper online free in your browser — the classic mine-clearing logic game, with a clean board and nothing between you and the puzzle. Tap to reveal a square; each number tells you how many mines touch it; long-press (or right-click) to plant a flag. Clear every safe square to win. Choose 9×9 with 10 mines or 12×12 with 24, play the shared daily board, or deal new boards forever. No download, no sign-up, works offline once loaded.
Rules
- Tap any square to start — the first tap is always safe and opens up an area.
- Each number counts the mines in the up-to-eight squares touching it.
- Long-press (or right-click) a square to flag it as a mine; tap 🚩 to switch taps into flag mode.
- Tap a revealed number whose flags match it to open its remaining neighbours at once (chording).
- Reveal every square that isn’t a mine to win — hit a mine and it’s boom, but Reset replays the same board.
How to play Minesweeper
Minesweeper is deduction, not luck: every number is a fact about its eight neighbours, and combining facts clears the field. If a “1” already touches one flag, its other neighbours are all safe. If a “3” touches exactly three hidden squares, all three are mines. Work the border between opened and hidden squares, flag what’s forced, and open what’s proven safe.
Two habits speed everything up: start from the big openings (a zero clears its whole neighbourhood automatically), and chord — once a number has the right count of flags around it, tapping the number opens every other neighbour in one go.
Classic rules, modern board
This is the classic Windows-style game with the sharp edges rounded off: your first tap is never a mine (it always opens an area, so no blind first-click losses), a 🚩 toggle makes flagging comfortable on a phone, and a wrong-flag marker shows what went astray after a loss. Reset replays the exact same minefield — good for learning from a blown board — while New deals a fresh one.
The daily board is shared: everyone who plays it gets the identical minefield that day, like our daily Sudoku and shikaku of the day.
Minesweeper with a clean, uncluttered board
Most minesweeper apps interrupt the very thing that makes the game good — the quiet chain of deductions. Here the board itself stays clean: no interstitials between rounds, no timer pressure, no energy system. It’s a browser page, so it runs on phone, tablet and desktop alike, and keeps working offline once loaded. If you like this kind of pure grid logic, Nonograms and Nurikabe scratch a similar itch.
Is Minesweeper solvable without guessing?
Mostly — and good technique pushes “mostly” a long way. Classic random minefields can occasionally corner you in a 50/50, but the majority of positions fall to pure logic: counting, subtracting overlapping number constraints, and using the total mine count late in the game. When a true coin-flip does appear, the mine counter is your tiebreaker — pick the reading that leaves the numbers consistent with the mines remaining. Winning a board start to finish on logic alone is the real satisfaction of the game.
Minesweeper: FAQ
How do you play Minesweeper?
Tap squares to reveal them. Each revealed number counts the mines in the up-to-eight squares touching it. Use the numbers to work out where the mines are, flag them, and reveal every safe square to win. Tap a mine and the board is lost — Reset replays it.
What do the numbers mean in Minesweeper?
A number counts the mines in the squares that touch it — up to eight neighbours. A “2” touching exactly two hidden squares means both are mines; a number already surrounded by the right count of flags means its other neighbours are safe.
How do I flag a mine?
Long-press a square on a touchscreen, or right-click with a mouse. You can also tap the 🚩 button to switch into flag mode, where every tap places or removes a flag.
Is the first click always safe?
Yes — on this board the first square you reveal is never a mine, and it always opens an area, so every game starts with real information rather than a blind gamble.
Does anything cover the board while you play?
No — this version keeps the board completely clean: nothing pops up between rounds and nothing overlaps the grid, on phone, tablet or desktop. It also keeps working offline once the page is loaded.
Is there a daily Minesweeper?
Yes — tap Daily for the shared daily board. It’s generated from the date, so everyone who plays it that day sweeps the identical minefield.