Play Minesweeper online: Beginner, Intermediate and Expert boards, a first click that is always safe, flags, chording, a timer and your best time per level.
Minesweeper looks like a game of luck for about two clicks. After that, every number is a clue: a 3 means exactly three of the eight squares around it hide mines, and fitting those clues together tells you, most of the time, which squares are safe. This version plays like the Windows classic, right in the browser, with nothing to install.
The mines are not laid until you click. They are then shuffled into every square except the one you clicked and its eight neighbours, so the first square is always a 0 and opens a patch of the board. A 0 opens its neighbours automatically, and any 0 among those opens its own, which is why one click can clear a large area. You win when every square without a mine is open; the remaining mines are flagged for you and the time is compared with your best for that level, which is kept in this browser.
Some layouts leave two squares that no clue can tell apart, and then a guess is unavoidable; the classic game works the same way. Hitting a mine ends the game with “Boom. That was a mine.” and shows every mine, with wrong flags crossed out. The 30-column Expert board is wider than a phone screen, so it scrolls sideways inside its frame. Sounds come from the shared sound settings under the board and can be turned off there.
Mines left
10
Time
0:00.0
Click any square to start — the first one is always safe
Right-click, Shift-click or long-press to flag. Click a number whose flags are all placed to open the rest around it.
When time is up the sound repeats, the tab title flashes and phones vibrate. Click or press any key on the page to stop it. Browsers only allow sound after you have clicked on the page once, so press Test sound if you will leave this tab untouched.