Our Minesweeper game brings the classic Windows puzzle to the browser — a 9×9 grid, 10 hidden mines, and pure logical deduction.
The rules
Left-click any cell to reveal it. If it’s a mine, the game ends immediately. If it’s safe, you’ll see a number showing how many of its up-to-8 neighboring cells contain mines — or a blank cell if there are zero adjacent mines, which automatically reveals its neighbors too since there’s no ambiguity left around a fully “clear” area.
Your first click is always safe
Mines are placed only after your first click, deliberately avoiding that cell and its immediate neighbors. This is the standard convention in nearly every modern Minesweeper implementation — it means you’re never punished by pure bad luck on move one, and every loss afterward comes from an actual deduction you could have made differently.
Flagging suspected mines
Right-click (or long-press on touch devices) any unrevealed cell to place a flag. Flagged cells are protected from accidental left-click reveals, letting you mark your working theory about mine locations as you piece together the number clues.
Beginner difficulty
This version uses the classic “Beginner” configuration — 9×9 grid, 10 mines — the same starting point from the original Windows Minesweeper, small enough to solve through logic without excessive guessing.