Minefield guide
Clear every safe square without setting off a mine, then beat your best time.
What is Minefield?
Minefield is a Minesweeper-style logic puzzle: dig every safe square on a hidden grid, using the numbers you uncover to work out where the mines are. On DD Games it is a free solo game in your browser with Easy, Medium and Hard boards, saved best times, and a Daily Minefield board shared by everyone.
Each number in Minefield tells you how many mines touch that square, diagonals included. Put those clues together and most of the board can be cleared by pure logic, which is what makes a clean, fast clear so satisfying.
DD Games offers three classic field sizes: Easy (9x9, 10 mines), Medium (16x16, 40 mines) and Hard (16x30, 99 mines). Your first dig never hits a mine and always opens a small area, so every game starts with something to work from.
Play with a mouse, touch screen or keyboard. There is also a Daily Minefield: one 16x16 board with 40 mines for everyone, with a timer and a daily leaderboard.
How to play Minefield
- Choose a field: Easy (9x9, 10 mines), Medium (16x16, 40 mines) or Hard (16x30, 99 mines).
- Click or tap a square to dig. Your first dig is always safe, opens an area and starts the timer.
- A revealed number tells you how many mines touch that square, including diagonals.
- Flag squares you are sure hide mines: right-click, long-press, or switch to Flag mode on touch screens. On a keyboard, move with the arrow keys and press F to flag.
- Reveal every square that is not a mine to win. Your fastest time for each difficulty is saved on this device.
Rules
- Digging a mine ends the game immediately.
- Your first dig and the squares around it never hold a mine.
- Revealing a square with no neighbouring mines automatically reveals the squares around it.
- Chord: tap a revealed number that already has the right number of flags around it to reveal all its other neighbours at once. If one of those flags is wrong, a mine goes off.
- Flags do not count toward winning; only revealing every safe square does.
- Each game has 3 free hints that dig a safe square, next to the area you have opened when possible; more hints use a hint helper from the shop.
- The Daily Minefield has no hints and no difficulty choice: start from the open patch, and one mine ends your run.
Tips and strategy
- A 1 touching exactly one hidden square means that square is a mine. This single pattern solves much of the board.
- Learn the 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 edge patterns: the mines sit under the 1s in 1-2-1 and under the two middle 2s in 1-2-2-1.
- Chording is the biggest time-saver: flag precisely, then tap the numbers to clear around them.
- When you must guess, prefer squares that would reveal the most new information if safe.
- Start on Easy to learn the patterns, then move to Medium, the same size as the daily board.
Questions
Is Minefield the same as Minesweeper?
It plays the same way: dig safe squares, read the numbers and flag the mines. Minefield is DD Games' own free version that runs in the browser.
Can the first click in Minefield hit a mine?
No. The mines are placed after your first dig, away from that square and its neighbours, so the first dig is always safe and opens an area.
How do I place a flag on mobile?
Long-press a hidden square, or switch to Flag mode with the toggle above the board and tap the square to flag or unflag it.
What does chording mean?
Tapping a revealed number whose neighbouring flags equal that number reveals all of its remaining neighbours in one move, which makes experienced play much faster.
How many mines are on each Minefield board?
Easy has 10 mines on 9x9, Medium has 40 on 16x16 and Hard has 99 on 16x30.
Is there a daily Minefield puzzle?
Yes. The Daily Minefield is one 16x16 board with 40 mines for everyone, with a timer and a daily leaderboard.
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