Minefield
Every square you open is a bet on the one beside it
Solo, in a pool2.5 min a roundPuzzleStrategy
Open a square and it tells you how many mines touch it. That number is the only thing you ever learn, and the whole game is what you deduce from it. Open every safe square to clear the board. Everyone in the pool is dealt the identical field.
How to play
Goal. Open every safe square without opening a mine. There are 10 mines on a 9 × 9 board.
- Tap a square to open it. A number is how many of the eight squares around it hold a mine; a blank one has none, so everything around it opens too.
- Hold a square instead of tapping to flag it when you think it is a mine. A flagged square cannot be opened by accident; hold it again to take the flag off.
- Your first tap is always safe, so open anywhere to begin.
Scoring
- 10 for every safe square opened.
- Clearing the board pays 600 more, and every second left adds 5.
Open a mine and the run ends with whatever you had earned. The round lasts two and a half minutes.
How a pool is decided
- Choose a stake — E5, E10 or E20 — and press Play. Your stake is taken then, and you play straight away. The game is played on our servers: they hold the deal and count your score, and your device shows you the game and sends your moves.
- The clock keeps running if you leave. A run you leave part-way ends when its time is up, with the score you had. You can come back to it while it is still running.
- Your score goes into a pool the moment your run ends: the oldest pool for that game and stake that still has room and that you are not already in — or a new one. You see the pool as soon as your score is in it.
- Everyone in a pool plays the identical deal, so the only difference between scores is how each person played it. You are never given a deal you have played before.
- A pool pays the moment it has 5 scores, from 5 different players. The highest score is first and receives 50% of the pot, second 30% and third 10%; the platform keeps 10%. If two scores are equal, whoever finished first ranks higher.
- A pool that does not have its 5 scores 6 hours after its first is cancelled, and every stake in it comes back in full.
- If our side lets you down — the game never opens on your device, or our server restarts in the middle of your run — your stake comes back in full.
- Where a game pays for time left on the clock, it pays only when you finish the game — never when you get stuck, bust or run out of moves.
- Practice is free, up to 10 times a day in each game: your own board, with nothing staked and nothing ranked.
- Winnings land in your Crazy8s wallet, and you can move them to your mobile money whenever you want.
