Mines is the well-known mine-clearing puzzle: open every square that does not hide a mine, using the numbers, which tell you how many mines touch each opened square. This version, from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, has two things most others lack. Your first click is always safe, and every board it makes can be finished by reasoning alone, so you never lose to a forced guess.
The Type menu has several sizes, from a quick 9x9 with ten mines up to a 30x16 board, and you can set your own. Undo works even after you hit a mine, although the game will remember that you did.
Controls
Click or tap a square to open it. Right-click to flag a mine. Click a number whose flags are all placed to open the squares around it.
Genre
Puzzle, Logic, Classic
Price
Free — no account, no download, nothing to install
Tips for Mines
Every board can be solved without guessing. If you think you have to guess, look again.
A 1 touching exactly one unopened square means that square is a mine.
Sometimes the answer comes from counting the mines that are left.