Mines: The Grid Game Where Greed Does the Damage

Strip a slot machine down to its bare mechanics and you get something close to Mines: no reels, no spinning animation, no soundtrack doing the emotional work. Just a grid, a set of hidden explosives, and a decision you have to keep making. The full rules sit at minesweepers.org.uk if you want them spelled out, … Read more

Mines: One Bad Click Undoes Everything

There’s a particular kind of quiet in a Mines round. You’ve cleared four squares, the multiplier has climbed, and the cursor hovers over a fifth. Nothing is happening on screen, and everything is happening. If you want to feel that without staking anything, a mines demo game gets you there in about ten seconds – … Read more