Play classic Minesweeper in your browser. Uncover safe tiles, read the numbers, flag the mines and clear the board. Three difficulties, free, no install.
Tap or left-click to uncover a tile. Long-press, right-click, or use flag mode to flag a mine. Tap a number to chord. Clear every safe tile to win.
Minesweeper is the logic puzzle that a whole generation learned on a work computer. The modern version was written by Microsoft developers Robert Donner and Curt Johnson and bundled with Windows 3.1 in 1992, where it quietly became one of the most-played games in history simply by being already installed on hundreds of millions of machines.
The board is a grid of covered tiles, and a fixed number of them hide mines. When you uncover a safe tile it shows a number: how many mines touch it across the eight surrounding tiles. A blank tile touches zero mines, so the board automatically opens up the whole connected empty region around it.
From those numbers alone you deduce where every mine is. There is no luck in a well-played game beyond the rare forced guess — just pure elimination. Flag the mines, uncover everything else, and beat the clock. It is the cleanest deduction puzzle ever shipped to a desktop.
You earn coins every time you win. Faster clears, new best times, a longer win streak (up to a 5x multiplier) and your first win each day all pay more. Spend the coins in the theme shop (the palette button) to unlock and equip new board colour schemes. It is purely cosmetic and never changes the puzzle.
Uncover tiles without hitting a mine. Each uncovered number tells you how many mines are in the eight tiles around it. Use those numbers to deduce which tiles are safe and which hide mines. Clear every safe tile to win.
On desktop, right-click a tile. On mobile, long-press it, or turn on flag mode with the flag button and then tap. Flags mark tiles you believe are mines so you don't uncover them by accident.
No. Mines are placed only after your first click, and never on the tile you clicked or its neighbors. Your opening move always reveals a safe area.
If a numbered tile already has exactly that many flags around it, clicking the number again uncovers all its remaining neighbors at once. It's a fast way to clear — but if a flag is wrong, you'll hit a mine.
Easy is a 9x9 grid with 10 mines, Medium is 10x14 with 24 mines, and Hard is 12x16 with 42 mines. More mines and a bigger board mean more deduction and more risk.
Yes. Your fastest clear time is stored separately for each difficulty in your browser and persists between sessions.