Mines game: rules, odds and strategy

The Mines game is the grid-based instant game crash players love: pick tiles, collect gems, raise the multiplier and cash out before you hit a mine. You choose how many mines are on the board, so you set the risk. Here’s how Mines works, your real odds and why a mines predictor can’t help.

How Mines works

Choose a stake and the number of mines (often 1 to 24 on a 5×5 grid). Click tiles one at a time: each gem increases the multiplier, and you can cash out after any gem. Hit a mine and the round ends.

Mines odds

With 3 mines, your first click is safe 88% of the time (22 of 25). The second click is safe 21 of 24 times, and so on. More mines mean bigger multipliers per gem and fewer safe clicks.

Mines strategy

• Low risk: 1–3 mines, cash out after 2–4 gems.
• High risk: 10+ mines with tiny stakes for big multipliers.
• Set a target: decide how many gems you’ll take before your first click.

See our Plinko, Mines and Limbo guide and best crash game strategies.

Mines predictor apps are scams

Mine positions are fixed by the server before your first click and hidden behind a hashed seed. No app can see them. “Mines predictor” downloads and bots are guessing at best and malware at worst. Read crash predictor apps debunked.

Pro tip: with 3 mines, cashing out after two gems already pays more than many crash targets.

RTP & odds explained

Your win chance at any target is the RTP divided by the multiplier. Here's how often each target hits over the long run, so you can pick your style: steady low targets or big multipliers.

Calculated at an illustrative 97% RTP because this game's RTP is not yet verified.

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Provably fair check

We have not yet verified whether Mines offers a provably fair check. Every round's server seed is hashed and published before take-off, so you can check afterwards that nothing changed. Paste the revealed seeds into our verifier and recompute any round yourself.

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