About Mines

Minesweeper has been bundled with Windows since 1990, but the format goes back further, to 1980s games like Cube and Relentless Logic — click a square, read the number, and work out where the mines must be.

The board grows with your level: starting around a 9×9 grid with 10 mines and expanding as you clear rounds, so the puzzle keeps getting harder instead of resetting to the same size every time. Your first click is always guaranteed safe.

Tips

• Start from any 0 — it opens a whole empty region and gives you more numbers to read at once.
• Flag mines you're sure about first; it narrows the numbers around them for everything nearby.
• When two numbers overlap on the same unopened squares, compare them — the difference often reveals a safe square or a certain mine.

Every round you finish is checked against the global Mines Top 10 above — no account needed, just a name the first time you place.