Mines by Spribe: minesweeper with a cash-out button
Twenty-five tiles, a number of mines you choose, and a multiplier that climbs with every safe tile you turn over. Stop whenever you like. Hit a mine and the round is gone. This is the whole game, and the maths behind it is more interesting than most people realise.
Updated 20 October 2026
Mines is the game people play between Aviator rounds. It takes no skill, lasts as long as you want, and gives you a cash-out button that feels like control. That feeling is the whole product. We have put more hours into it than we would like to admit, across the Spribe version at bookmakers, the Stake original and the Hacksaw one at licensed UK casinos, and this page is what we wish someone had handed us before the first session.
Play the Mines demo
Run the demo with 3 mines and cash out after exactly two tiles, twenty times in a row. You will lose roughly a quarter of those rounds. Then switch to 10 mines and try to reach five tiles. You will mostly fail. That five-minute exercise teaches you more about the game than any strategy video.
What is Mines?
Mines is Spribe's take on Minesweeper, released in 2019 alongside Plinko and Dice as the "mini games" that ship next to Aviator. The board is a 5x5 grid of 25 tiles. Before a round starts you pick a stake and decide how many of those tiles hide a mine: anything from 1 to 24. Then you click tiles. A safe tile shows a gem and bumps the multiplier. A mine ends the round and takes the stake.
The twist that makes it a gambling product rather than a puzzle is the cash-out button. After any safe tile you can bank your stake multiplied by the current figure. There is no timer, no other players, no social panel. It is you, the grid, and a number that gets bigger and more tempting with each click.
Because the game is so easy to build, everyone has one. Stake was first with its original in 2017. Hacksaw Gaming, Turbo Games, BGaming, Evoplay and a dozen smaller studios followed. They all look the same on the surface and differ on the thing that matters: the RTP. We go through that below.
How to play Mines, step by step
- Set a stake. Minimum is usually 0.10 in your currency, often 10 rupees or 10 taka at South Asian bookmakers. Maximum is 100 per round at most Spribe operators.
- Pick the mine count. The slider goes from 1 to 24. Three is the default most people leave it on. More mines, higher multipliers, shorter life expectancy.
- Press Bet and start clicking. Any tile. They are all equally likely to be a mine, whatever your gut says about corners.
- Watch the multiplier. It updates after every gem. The next multiplier is shown too, so you always know what one more click is worth.
- Cash out, or keep going. Press Cash Out and the amount lands in your balance instantly. Or click again and risk the lot.
Spribe also offers an auto mode: you pre-select tiles on an empty grid, set a number of rounds, and the game plays them for you. It is useful for testing a fixed pattern. It does not change the odds of that pattern.
Three mines, three gems in, 1.45x on offer. The next tile pays 1.65x if it is safe. It is safe 19 times out of 22.
The multiplier maths: 1 mine vs 5 mines vs 10 mines
This is the part no other Mines page bothers with, so we will do it properly. Every multiplier in Spribe's Mines is the RTP divided by the probability of getting that far. The probability of surviving one pick is simply the number of safe tiles left divided by the number of tiles left. Chain those together and you have the whole paytable.
With 1 mine on the board, your first click has 24 safe tiles out of 25, a 96% chance. 0.97 divided by 0.96 is 1.01x, which is exactly what the game shows. With 5 mines the first pick is 20 out of 25, an 80% chance, and the multiplier is 1.21x. With 10 mines it is 15 out of 25, 60%, paying 1.62x.
Keep clicking and the numbers run away from you:
| Safe tiles revealed | 1 mine: chance / pays | 5 mines: chance / pays | 10 mines: chance / pays |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96.0% / 1.01x | 80.0% / 1.21x | 60.0% / 1.62x |
| 2 | 92.0% / 1.05x | 63.3% / 1.53x | 35.0% / 2.77x |
| 3 | 88.0% / 1.10x | 49.6% / 1.96x | 19.8% / 4.90x |
| 5 | 80.0% / 1.21x | 29.2% / 3.32x | 5.7% / 17.16x |
| 10 | 60.0% / 1.62x | 5.7% / 17.16x | 0.1% / 1,055x |
| 15 | 40.0% / 2.42x | 0.5% / 204x | 0.00003% / 3.17 million x |
| 20 | 20.0% / 4.85x | 0.002% / 51,536x | not possible |
| 24 | 4.0% / 24.25x | not possible | not possible |
Three things fall out of this table. First, the house edge is identical in every cell. Multiply any chance by its multiplier and you get 0.97, every time. There is no mine count or stopping point that is secretly better value. Second, the multipliers that get screenshotted on Telegram (the 1,055x on 10 mines after ten gems) have a one in a thousand chance of landing. The screenshot is real. The 999 busted rounds behind it are not shown. Third, 24 mines with 1 safe tile is a 4% shot at 24.25x. That is a worse bet than most lottery scratchcards feel like, and it is sitting right there in the game.
Spribe caps the displayed multiplier at some operators, usually around 5,000x to 10,000x, and the max payout per round is set by the casino. So the 3-million-x cell exists in the maths and nowhere else.
Survival chance per pick. The 10-mine curve hits the floor by the fifth tile.
Spribe vs Hacksaw vs Stake: which Mines are you playing?
The name on the lobby tile is usually just "Mines", so check the developer logo in the corner before you decide the RTP is fine.
Spribe Mines (2019). The one at bookmakers from Lagos to Lahore. 5x5 grid, 1 to 24 mines, 97% RTP that does not vary by operator, provably fair with a hash shown before the round. Clean, fast, no fuss. The version this page is about.
Stake Mines (2017). Stake's own original, and the one that predates Spribe's. Same 5x5 layout and 1 to 24 mines, but 99% RTP, a 0.01 minimum stake, and a provably fair system where you can rotate your own client seed. If you can access Stake legally where you live, this is the best-value Mines there is, for the plain reason that a 1% edge beats a 3% edge.
Hacksaw Gaming Mines (2022). The version you meet at licensed UK and European casinos, since Hacksaw holds UKGC and MGA licences and Spribe's mini games are less widely integrated there. RTP varies by casino between roughly 94% and 97%; mrq.com, for instance, lists 94%. Check the info panel.
Turbo Games Mines (2021). Common at crypto casinos and some 1xBet-family sites. Casino.guru lists it at 95%. It looks slick. The number matters more than the look.
Roobet and other originals. Roobet, BC.Game and most crypto casinos have their own 99% version. The maths is identical to Stake's.
If two versions are in the same lobby, the rule is simple: play the one with the higher RTP. Everything else is cosmetics.
Strategy: what actually changes your results
Nothing changes your expected return. Every strategy below is about choosing how you lose, which is still worth doing deliberately.
Low mines, early cash-out. 1 to 3 mines, stop after 2 or 3 gems. You win most rounds for 5% to 45% profit each. The 3% edge grinds slowly. This is how to make 500 rupees last an hour.
High mines, one or two picks. 15 to 20 mines, click once or twice. A 20-mine single pick is 4.85x at 20% odds. It is a crash-game-style gamble compressed into one click. Fun, brutal, over quickly.
Fixed pattern in auto mode. Pre-select the same four tiles every round. People swear by corners or diagonals. The game draws mines uniformly at random, so a corner is exactly as dangerous as the middle. Patterns feel like control. They are a random sample dressed up.
Martingale. Double the stake after every loss, aiming to recover with a low-multiplier cash-out. On 3 mines with a 2-gem target your win rate is 77%, so losing streaks are short. But a five-loss run happens about once every 1,500 rounds, and at that point you are staking 32 times your base to win back one unit. Casinos cap the maximum bet for exactly this reason.
What does help: a session limit in money, a session limit in time, and setting the cash-out target before the round so the "one more tile" voice does not get a vote. The same advice applies to Chicken Road, which is Mines laid out as a road.
The "mines predictor" and "mines hack" scam
Search for Mines in India, the Philippines, Nigeria or Kenya and the autocomplete fills with predictor, hack, signal, bot. The volume on those terms is enormous. So is the number of people who get cleaned out by them. Here is how the game actually decides where the mines are, and why nothing can predict it.
Before you click, Spribe's server generates a seed. Client seeds from players are mixed in. The combination is hashed with SHA-512 and the hash is shown to you. The mine layout is derived from that combination. After the round you can take the revealed seeds, run the hash yourself, and confirm it matches. Stake's system works the same way with your own client seed in the mix. The layout exists before your first click and nobody outside the server knows it until the round ends.
So what are the predictor apps? We have installed several so we can say this with confidence:
- Random number generators with a confident interface. They light up tiles, often with a "98% accuracy" badge. The tiles are random. You lose at the normal rate and the app blames your timing.
- Phishing. The app asks for your casino login "to sync with the server". It then logs in as you and withdraws, or sells the account.
- Referral funnels. The "hack only works" if you register at a specific site through the seller's link and deposit a minimum amount. The seller earns a commission on your deposit. The hack is the referral link.
- Paid Telegram signals. Someone posts screenshots of wins and sells access to "signals" for a monthly fee. The screenshots are the 1-in-1,000 rounds from the table above, or edited.
A version of the game that could be predicted would be a version where the developer loses money every day. Spribe is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission and the Malta Gaming Authority, and Stake's originals are audited. A predictable Mines would have been found and the licence pulled years ago. We cover the whole category of this stuff in are crash games rigged?.
If it asks for your casino password, it is the hack, and you are the target.
Where to play Mines
Spribe's version lives in the instant games or "Spribe" tab at most bookmakers that carry Aviator. Stake and Roobet have their own. These are the three we would open first:
11win
Official Spribe Mines in the Instant Games tab, demo mode inside the game, UPI and crypto deposits.
2Stake
Stake's own Mines original: 1 to 24 mines, 99% RTP, provably fair with your own client seed.
31xBet
Carries Spribe, Turbo Games and Hacksaw versions side by side if you want to compare them.
Rules, payments and which versions are available change by country. Pick yours:
- 🇮🇳 India1win, Mostbet, 4rabet
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan1xBet, Mostbet, 1win
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh1xBet, Mostbet, Melbet
- 🇰🇪 KenyaBetika, Pepeta, Odibets
Mines vs Chicken Road vs Plinko
All three live in the same lobby and get played by the same people, so it is worth being clear about the differences. Mines and Chicken Road are the same idea in different clothes: a sequence of survive-or-bust steps with a cash-out after each one. Chicken Road fixes the risk per step through its difficulty levels; Mines lets you set it through the mine count, which gives you finer control and a wider range. Chicken Road's 98% RTP beats Spribe's 97% by a point, which matters over a long session.
Plinko is the odd one out. There is no decision after the drop, nothing to cash out, and the result is a single bounce down the pegs. It is closer to a slot than to Mines. People play it because it is restful, and after an hour of Mines, restful has appeal.
Mines is an 18+ real-money game. If the "one more tile" urge is winning more often than you are, the responsible gambling page for your country has the tools and the phone numbers.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Mines game?
Mines is an instant casino game where you pick tiles on a 5x5 grid that hides a number of mines you chose before the round. Each safe tile raises your multiplier. You can cash out after any safe pick. Reveal a mine and you lose the stake. Spribe's version from 2019 is the one most bookmakers carry; Stake, Hacksaw and Turbo Games have their own.
What is the RTP of Mines?
97% for Spribe's Mines, at every mine count and every cash-out point. Stake's original is 99%. Hacksaw's version is usually 96-97% and Turbo Games' sits around 95%. The figure is fixed by the developer, not the casino, which is why we name the version before the RTP.
How many mines should I choose?
There is no mine count that changes your expected return; the house edge is identical from 1 to 24 mines. Fewer mines means small, frequent wins and long sessions. More mines means big multipliers that rarely land. Pick based on how much variance you can stomach, not on a belief that one setting is 'better'.
Can I play Mines for free?
Yes. The demo on this page is Spribe's own and uses play money. Most casinos also have a demo switch inside the game. Stake lets you play its version with a zero balance in demo mode. Free play shows you the maths; it does not show you how it feels to lose real money on tile 11.
Is there a mines predictor or hack that works?
No. The mine positions are generated from a server seed plus client seeds and hashed before you pick, so nothing can know the layout in advance. Every 'mines predictor', 'mines hack' or 'mines signal' app is a random tile generator, a phishing tool, or a funnel into someone's referral link. Usually all three.
Is Mines a game of skill?
Only the decision of when to stop is yours, and that decision changes variance, not expected value. There is no tile that is safer than another. Spribe's game, Stake's game and Hacksaw's game all draw positions uniformly at random. Treat it as a volatility dial with a pretty interface.
Where can I play Mines?
Spribe's Mines is in the instant games tab at 1win, 1xBet, Mostbet, Melbet, Pin-Up and most other bookmakers that carry Aviator. Stake and Roobet run their own originals. Licensed European and UK casinos offer the Hacksaw version under names like Mines or Minefield. Use the country list on this page for what works where you live.
Daniel Reyes
Daniel has written about online casino games since 2016 and has been playing crash games since the first Bustabit era. He owns the editorial standards on this site and signs off every global page.