How to play Minesweeper

How to play Minesweeper. Choose 9×9 with 10 mines, 16×16 with 40, or 30×16 with 99. Your first opening and its eight neighbors are safe. A number counts mines in surrounding cells; zeros expand automatically.

Rules

  1. Choose 9×9 with 10 mines, 16×16 with 40, or 30×16 with 99. Your first opening and its eight neighbors are safe. A number counts mines in surrounding cells; zeros expand automatically.
  2. Open every safe cell to win. A mine ends the game. Right-click, long-press or use Flag mode to mark a cell. Flags can be wrong and do not prove a mine.
  3. Click an open number whose neighboring flag count equals it to open the other neighbors. Incorrect flags can cause a loss. Hints derive safe cells or mines from visible numbers only; some boards still require guessing.
  4. Use arrows to focus, Enter to open and F to flag. Undo and hints mark an assisted result. The daily 9×9 board opens its center automatically and is identical across languages.

A position to try

An open 1 with exactly one covered neighbor proves a mine there. If an adjacent open 1 touches that proven mine, all its other covered neighbors are safe. A player flag alone is not proof.

Tap, click or use the keyboard.

Tap or click to select. Drag to move. Tab, Enter and Escape also work.

Hints explain one step. Undo is always available while history is kept.

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Strategy

Compare adjacent numbers before opening a covered cell. A 1 with only one covered neighbor proves that neighbor is a mine.

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