Know Minesweeper from Google Search? Above you can play the same three board sizes: Easy, Medium and Hard. The difference is that every board here can be solved without guessing. Below you'll find how Google's own version works, how to place flags on any device and how to get faster.
Play Google MinesweeperHow to play Google Minesweeper. Search for "minesweeper" on Google and press Play. Pick Easy, Medium or Hard in the game's menu. Click a square to start, right-click to plant a flag (on a phone or tablet, switch to the flag with the button in the game) and open every square that isn't a mine to win.
Want it bigger? Google also has a full-screen version of the game at google.com/fbx?fbx=minesweeper.
The rules are the same as in every other Minesweeper. Each number tells you how many mines touch that square, diagonals included. New to the game? Start with our guide on how to play Minesweeper.
Google kept the classic numbers of mines but changed the shape of the boards.
| Google level | Board | Mines | Classic level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 10 × 8 | 10 | Beginner: 9 × 9 |
| Medium | 18 × 14 | 40 | Intermediate: 16 × 16 |
| Hard | 24 × 20 | 99 | Expert: 30 × 16 |
Easy and Medium have almost the same number of squares as Beginner and Intermediate, so they feel much the same. Hard has exactly as many squares as Expert, 480, just arranged in a squarer grid. With 99 mines, about one square in five hides a mine.
All three are on this page. Pick one from the level menu in the top bar of the game above.
Right-click a square to plant a flag. Right-click it again to take the flag off.
Use the right-click of your touchpad. On a MacBook that's a click or tap with two fingers. On most Windows laptops a two-finger tap works too, or you can press the bottom right corner of the touchpad.
A touchscreen has no right-click, so Google's game has a button that switches between digging and flagging. Tap it to switch to the flag, plant your flags, then tap it again to go back to digging. Keep an eye on which mode you're in before you tap a square.
Right-click works the same. On a phone or tablet you can also hold your finger on a square for a moment to plant a flag, or switch the Dig button in our top bar to Flag.
No. As far as we know, Google places its mines at random and doesn't check whether a board can be solved by logic. So you'll often reach a spot where logic can't take you any further, like two closed squares that look exactly the same while one of them hides a mine. That's a pure 50-50, and no amount of skill gets you through it.
We wanted to know how often that happens, so we generated well over a thousand random boards for each of Google's sizes and ran them through a solver that never misses a logical move. Even when the first click opens an area, a perfect player would still have to guess at least once on about 12% of Easy boards, 31% of Medium boards and 79% of Hard boards.
The boards on this page are different. Each one is checked by a solver before you play, so there's always a logical move. Read more about no-guess Minesweeper.
Shapes like the 1-2-1 and 1-2-2-1 come up in almost every game. Once you know them, you don't have to think, you just click. See all the Minesweeper patterns with pictures.
A flag costs a click. If you're sure a square is safe, open it right away, even if you haven't flagged the mines around it.
Jumping around the board costs time. Follow the edge of the open area and clear it as you go.
Nothing ruins a good run like a 50-50 on the last two squares. Our boards never need a guess, so every lost game is a lesson instead of bad luck. Stuck? Press Hint and it explains the next move.
There's no official leaderboard for Google's version, so there are no checked records for it either. The fast times you see online are screenshots, and on Easy a lucky first click can do most of the work.
For the classic boards there is a proper ranking with recorded games. The fastest Expert game ever took less than 27 seconds. Read more about the Minesweeper world records.
No. This page isn't made by Google and has nothing to do with Google. It's our own Minesweeper game, set up with the same board sizes as Google's version.
Many people call it the Minesweeper Doodle, but you won't find it on Google's home page. It shows up when you search for minesweeper, and there's a full-screen version at google.com/fbx?fbx=minesweeper.
Check which mode you're in. In Google's game a tap digs until you switch to flagging with the game's flag button. On this page, hold your finger on a square for a moment to plant a flag, or switch the Dig button to Flag.
Yes. Your best times, win rate and streaks for Easy, Medium and Hard are saved in your browser, separately from the classic levels.
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