Desktop controls
Mouse
- Left click
- Reveal a covered square.
- Right click
- Place or remove a flag.
- Click a number
- Chord when its adjacent flag count matches the number.
Tools · New player briefing
How to Play Minesweeper.
Reveal every safe square without opening a mine. The numbers are clues: each one counts the mines hidden in the eight squares touching it.
Rule 01 · Read one clue
One number watches eight squares.
A number counts mines horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. It never tells you which neighboring square is the mine—only how many mines are in that local group.
Example: if a 1 has only one covered neighbor left, that neighbor must be a mine.
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Try it now · Guided first clear
Solve 20 tiny boards. Build real instincts.
Move from single-number deductions through 1–2–1 patterns, diagonal counts, and satisfied clues. Use Previous and Next to revisit any lesson. Wrong moves produce a hint instead of ending the board.
Question 1 of 20 · Pattern proof
Why 1–2–1 has one answer
Open the board, compare the three exact counts, flag both mines, and reveal the only safe square.
Training board · 3 × 3
Fixed lesson · 4 guided moves
Move 1 of 4
0/4Required action · reveal
Reveal the highlighted square
This safe blank square touches no mines, so it opens the connected empty area and its numbered border.
Follow the cyan pulse. The tutorial will explain every move.
Rule 02 · Your first board
Play in this order.
Do not guess while a number still gives you a forced move. Work from the clearest edge of the revealed area and repeat the same loop.
- 00
Reveal any square
Your first reveal is protected in our practice board. If it opens a blank area, the empty neighbors reveal automatically.
- 01
Read the numbers
A number tells you how many mines are hidden in the eight squares immediately around it, including diagonals.
- 02
Mark only forced mines
If a 1 touches only one covered square, that square must be a mine. Flag it so you can track the deduction.
- 03
Open the forced safe squares
When a number already touches the correct number of flags, every other covered neighbor is safe to reveal.
- 04
Repeat until the board clears
You win when every non-mine square is open. You do not need to place a flag on every mine to finish.
Phone and tablet controls
Touch
- Reveal mode
- Tap a covered square to open it.
- Flag mode
- Tap a covered square to mark or unmark it.
- Mode button
- Switch modes above the practice board before tapping.
Rules that prevent mistakes
Flags are notes, not armor.
A flag does not make a square safe and it does not have to be correct. The board trusts your flag when you chord, so a wrong flag can open an unmarked mine.
Opening a mine loses
The board ends immediately when you reveal a mined square.
Blank areas expand
A zero-mine square automatically opens its connected blank area and numbered border.
Reset creates a new board
Use the face or new-board control whenever you want another layout.
Safe squares decide the win
Reveal every non-mine square; flags alone never complete the game.
Minesweeper vocabulary
Know the board language.
- Covered square
- A square that has not been revealed yet.
- Blank square
- A revealed square with zero adjacent mines.
- Number
- The count of adjacent mines from 1 through 8.
- Flag
- A player marker for a square believed to contain a mine.
- Chord
- Reveal all unflagged neighbors of a satisfied number at once.
- Mine counter
- Board mines minus the flags currently placed.
Ready for your first clear?