How to play Mines

Mines is a game of nerve. Twenty-five tiles hide a mix of gems and mines. Turn over a gem and your multiplier goes up. Turn over a mine and the round is over.

The whole game is one question: do you cash out now, or turn over one more tile?

How a round works

1. Choose your bet and how many mines to hide, from 1 to 24.
2. Pick a tile. A gem raises your multiplier; a mine ends the round and loses the bet.
3. After your first gem you can cash out at any time and take the current multiplier.
4. Keep going as long as you dare. Find every gem and you reach the top multiplier for that setting, up to 10,000× your bet.

How the number of mines changes things

The maths in one line

Each safe pick multiplies your return by the chance of hitting a mine on that pick. With 3 mines in 25 tiles, your first pick is safe 22 times in 25, so a gem adds a little; with 20 mines, a safe first pick is 5 in 25, so a gem adds a lot. More mines means bigger jumps, fewer safe tiles.

Tips

• Decide your cash-out point before you start, for example three gems, and stick to it.
• The tiles are placed at random on the server before you start. There is no pattern to find and no corner that is safer.
• Low mine counts suit long, steady sessions. High mine counts are for the occasional big swing.

Play free

Mines on All In is set up on our server with virtual coins only, so you can learn where your nerve runs out with nothing real at stake.