Minesweeper: how to play, rules & tips
Play Minesweeper free online with no guessing: every board here is checked so it can be cleared by pure logic. Open safe tiles, read the numbers and flag the mines.
How to play Minesweeper
Tap a tile to open it. A number shows how many mines touch that tile, including diagonals. An empty tile opens up everything around it.
Flag a tile when you're sure it hides a mine. Open every safe tile to clear the board.
Opening a mine ends the game, but you never have to take a 50/50 guess here.
No-guess boards
Normal Minesweeper sometimes leaves you with a coin-flip. Every board here was checked by a solver to be clearable with logic alone, starting from the first opening, so careful play always wins.
Minesweeper tips
- A 1 with only one hidden neighbor: that neighbor is a mine.
- When a number already touches that many flags, every other neighbor is safe.
- Look for the 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 patterns along edges; they always resolve the same way.
- Work from the edges of the opened area inward.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Minesweeper free?
Yes. HypeGameRoom is free: no sign-up, no download and nothing to buy to play. Arcade games reward Neons, a play-only currency that can never be cashed out.
What does no-guess Minesweeper mean?
Every board can be solved with logic alone, so you never have to guess between two tiles.
What do the numbers mean?
How many of the eight surrounding tiles hide a mine.