About Minesweeper Battle

What it is

Minesweeper Battle is a free, browser-based minesweeper platform. Three game modes — classic single-player, a worldwide daily challenge, and 1v1 multiplayer races — wrapped in a touch-first UI that runs on every modern browser. No install needed, no signup to play, no popups blocking the board.

• Quick play — classic single-player boards in three difficulties (9×9 / 16×16 / 30×16).
• Daily challenge — one shared board worldwide each day, leaderboards by time.
• 1v1 races — same seed, two players, parallel boards, fastest sweeper wins.

Why we built it

Minesweeper is one of the great computer games — pure deduction, almost zero rules to memorise, a perfect 3-minute puzzle. But the version most people remember (the one bundled with Windows in the 90s) hasn't really evolved. The boards are still the same three sizes, the controls still assume a mouse, the experience is still strictly solo.

We wanted to keep what's great about minesweeper — instant gratification, total mental absorption, clear win/lose feedback — while modernising everything around it. That meant a touch-first interface, a global daily ritual, head-to-head competitive races, public leaderboards, persistent streaks, and an installable PWA that works offline. Same game underneath. New layer around it.

Design principles

• The board is sacred. No ads on the board, no popups during a game, no chrome that can eat a click. The only thing on the screen during play is the game.
• Free, no friction. No signup required to play. Sign in only if you want your stats to persist. Free across all modes — quick play, daily, 1v1.
• Touch-first, desktop-friendly. Designed for thumbs on a phone; gracefully scales up to a mouse and keyboard.
• Determinism over flair. Same seed always produces the same board. That's what makes the daily challenge fair worldwide — and what makes 1v1 races meaningful.
• Fast by default. Static prerender for content pages, server-side payload for game state, deferred third-party scripts, self-hosted fonts. The site has to feel instant.

How tokens and the leaderboard work

Tokens are an in-game virtual currency for progression. You earn them by winning 1v1 races, placing top-3 on the daily challenge, and maintaining long daily streaks. They have no monetary value, are not redeemable for money or cryptocurrency, and exist only inside the Service. Single-player wins don't pay tokens — only competitive play does.

The leaderboard ranks players by total tokens earned across all time, the current week, the previous week, today and yesterday. Win-rate and raw score are shown alongside as secondary signals. See the terms of service for the full token policy.

Technology

The web client is built with Nuxt 4 and Vue 3. The board renders on a canvas for smooth pan/zoom and predictable input on every device. State management is Pinia. The Service Worker (workbox) caches the shell for offline single-player and faster repeat visits.

The backend is a Django REST API. Board generation is seed-based and deterministic, so a given daily seed always produces the same layout for every player — what makes the daily challenge fair worldwide. Real-time updates in the lobby and during 1v1 races run over WebSockets.

Minesweeper Battle is also available as a Telegram Mini App for players who prefer to keep their games inside their chat client.

Team and contact

A small independent team that builds and ships every change ourselves. Feedback shapes the roadmap — bug reports, feature requests, tournament ideas, accessibility complaints, all of it. Write to support@minesweeperbattle.com and a real human reads it within a few days.

For account, privacy and data requests see the privacy policy. For platform rules and the token policy see the terms of service. For first-time players the how-to-play guide covers rules, number meanings, no-guessing strategy and 1v1 tips.