What is it?
Numbers reveal nearby mines. Open safe cells and flag suspected mines; multiplayer pits speed and accuracy against the same minefield.
Play free in your browser without installation. Solo practice needs no account; sign in with your GameNow account for online matches, rankings and friends.
Still learning how to play minesweeper? Your first click never loses, the start area is already open, and hitting a mine only freezes you for a few seconds. Once the minesweeper game feels easy, sign in for minesweeper pvp on matching boards, with smoke that hides your rival's numbers and a scan that shows mines.
Mine Rush is a minesweeper race. Both players get the same 9×12 field from one shared seed, 20 mines on 108 cells (a density of 18.5%), and each digs a private copy for up to four minutes. You see only how far your opponent has got, never which cells they have opened.
Nobody loses on the first click. A 3×3 block inside the board is kept free of mines, and the field is rerolled until the area that opens from it covers 12 to 20 cells, so both players start from the same numbers. A mine doesn't end your game either. It freezes you for 3 seconds, and each later hit adds 1.5 seconds, up to 8.
Two tools shape the race. Opening cells charges Smoke, which hides up to 14 numbers on your opponent's board for 7 seconds. Scan, twice per match, shows the mines in a 3×3 square for 4 seconds, even while you are frozen.
Gameplay video and screens
How to play
- Pick a level (Easy, Normal, Hard) to practice against the AI. Signed out, choosing one in the level box at the top starts a new round at once; signed in, pick it under 'Solo' in the lobby and press 'Start practice'. Harder levels have more mines (16, 20, 24) and a faster AI.
- The starting area is already open. Numbers count the mines in the 8 surrounding cells. Read them and click (tap) safe cells to open them.
- Right-click (or hold) a sure mine to flag it. Click a number whose surrounding flags already match it to open the rest at once. In practice (signed out too) 'Check on' is the default, so the first click only previews the cells and the 'open' button opens them.
- Hitting a mine freezes you for a few seconds, longer each time. Leave uncertain cells for later.
- Opening cells charges Smoke. Firing it briefly hides the numbers your opponent has opened. Scan briefly shows mines around a chosen cell, twice per round.
Modes
- Practice vs AI (Easy / Normal / Hard)
- The levels have 16, 20 or 24 mines and an AI that waits about 3.5, 2.9 or 1.4 seconds between moves. Only practice has the ⏸ pause and the chord check, and only practice saves your round when you leave, its clock stopped until you return.
- Today's minefield
- Signed-in players all get the same 20-mine board, which changes at midnight Korea time. You race an AI slightly weaker than Normal, with no pause. The score is opened cells × 1,000 plus seconds left; your best run of the day is kept and shown only to you, with no public ranking.
- Online match (Find opponent / invite code)
- Two signed-in players dig one 20-mine field for four minutes. You can practice against the AI while queued, and invite codes last 10 minutes. Every finished match changes your Mine Rush rating, which starts at 1,000.
Good to know
- Opening sure cells fast beats spending time on flags. A 0 opens a wide area in a chain.
- Scan and Give up still work while you are frozen by a mine.
- A practice round is saved when you leave, and you're asked whether to continue when you return. Choosing a new round (↻ or a new level) starts fresh without asking.
- "Today's minefield" is one shared board per day, raced against the AI. Play it as often as you like; only your best of the day (opened cells, then time left) is kept, and there is no public ranking.
At a glance
- Genre
- Puzzles & cards
- Players
- 1–2
- Price
- Free
- Available languages
- Korean · English · Japanese · Chinese · Spanish
- Platform
- Web browser (no install)
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