Ten mines hide in the 8 by 8 grid. Tap a square to reveal it: a number tells you how many mines touch that square, and a blank square clears its whole neighborhood at once. Hold a square (or right-click on desktop) to plant a flag where you suspect a mine. Reveal every safe square to win; the clock starts on your first tap and your fastest clear is saved.
Minesweeper is one of the most played computer games in history, almost entirely because Microsoft bundled it with Windows from 1992 until 2012. The idea is older than that, with grid games about locating hidden mines appearing in the 1960s and 1970s, but the Windows version fixed the rules most people know: a grid, hidden mines, numbers that count the mines touching each square, and a clock. This board is the classic beginner size, 8 by 8 with 10 mines.
The game has a genuine logical core. Most of any board can be solved by deduction alone, and there are well known patterns that resolve instantly once you can see them. The remaining squares sometimes come down to a guess, which is why even expert players lose games they played perfectly.
8 by 8 with 10 mines, which is the classic beginner layout. The clock starts on your first tap and your fastest clear is saved.
Press and hold a square. On desktop, right click does the same thing.
No. Most of a board can be deduced from the numbers, but some layouts leave a genuine 50 50 near the end, and that is true of Minesweeper in general rather than this version.
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