Clear the field without hitting a mine
The Windows classic, rebuilt for the browser. Pick a board size, uncover every safe square and flag the mines. Your first click is always safe, and you get three hints per round if you get stuck. Beat your own record and save your score to the global leaderboard.
Minesweeper is one of the most played puzzle games ever written. It shipped with Windows from 1990 onward and quietly became a fixture of office life, taught by nothing more than a hidden grid and a few numbers. Behind the simple surface sits a genuine logic puzzle: every revealed number is a clue about its immediate surroundings, and the field is solved by combining those clues rather than by guessing.
The standard boards — beginner, intermediate and expert — have barely changed in three decades, which is exactly why they work as a benchmark. Competitive players chase records on the expert field measured in seconds, and the skills they rely on are the same ones a casual player picks up over time: recognising common number patterns, marking mines confidently, and clearing large safe regions in one motion instead of square by square.
It stays popular because a round is short, the rules fit in one sentence, and no two boards are alike. This version keeps the original feel — flags, the reset face, the mine counter and the timer — while running entirely in your browser on desktop or phone, with personal best times, a star rating and a global leaderboard so completed boards can be compared against everyone else's.