Beginner Minesweeper
Beginner is the gentlest way into Minesweeper: a small 9×9 grid with just 10 mines hidden underneath. It is the board to learn the two rules that make the whole game click — every number tells you exactly how many mines touch that square, and a square touching zero mines opens up its whole neighbourhood for free. On Minesweeper.Free your first click is always safe and opens an area to start from, and you can switch on no-guess boards so every puzzle can be finished by logic alone — no unlucky 50/50 at the end. Clear all the safe squares as fast as you can and your best time is saved automatically.
How to play
- Open your first square. Click or tap any square to start. Your first click is always safe and clears an opening area with numbers around its edge.
- Read the numbers. A number is exactly how many of the eight squares around it hide a mine. A blank (zero) square has no mines nearby, so its neighbours are safe and open automatically.
- Flag the mines. When a number proves a square must be a mine, flag it — right-click on desktop, or long-press (or turn on flag mode) on touch — so you never open it by mistake.
- Clear every safe square. Keep opening squares you can prove are safe until only the 10 mines are left unopened. Do it without hitting one and you win — the timer stops and your best time is saved.
Strategy
Start in the middle, not the edges — a central first click usually opens a bigger area and gives you more numbers to read. Learn to trust a satisfied number: once you have flagged as many mines as a number shows, every other square it touches is safe to open, and you can click the number itself to open them all at once (that is called chording). Flag a mine the moment you are certain of it so you do not click it by accident, and work the corners of opened areas where the numbers are smallest.