About Minesweeper.now: Competitive Platform and Editorial Standards
Minesweeper.now is a browser-based Minesweeper game and learning platform. It combines playable Standard and No-Guessing boards with results checked against server game records, platform-only rankings, practical tools, and strategy guides. Its leaderboard does not claim to be an official cross-platform world-record authority.
Who runs it
Henrick builds the platform and is responsible for its editorial standards. Some articles begin as automation-assisted drafts, and some may come from named contributors. Those methods are identified on the article; imported and assisted drafts are not eligible for search or scheduled publication until an administrator approves the exact revision. Corrections go straight to the contact page.
How No-Guessing boards work
Standard Minesweeper can deal a position that no reasoning resolves: two covered cells, one mine, and nothing anywhere on the board that separates them. That is a genuine coin flip and it ends runs that were played perfectly.
No-Guessing mode removes it. Every board is generated and then run through a solver that attempts to clear it using only deduction. If the solver reaches a point where it would have to guess, the board is discarded and another is generated. You only ever see boards that survived that check, so every position you face has a logical answer - The difficulty is in finding it, never in gambling on it.
How times are verified
A ranked game is recorded move by move, not just as a final number. The board layout is committed to the server when the game starts, and the sequence of clicks is submitted with the result, so a time cannot be produced without a corresponding, consistent game. Results that fail those checks do not enter the leaderboard. The full policy is on the fair play page.
Editorial standards and source policy
A guide should let a reader tell what is measured here, what comes from the game rules, and what comes from an outside authority. Live platform numbers are calculated from this site's database. External records and historical claims name their source and date when those details can change. Corrections are applied to the page rather than hidden in a new URL.
How drafts are checked before publication
Automation can help organize a draft or suggest links, but it is not treated as a source. Before an assisted or contributor article can be scheduled, an editor must check its claims, sources, originality, links, metadata, image descriptions and visible wording. A material edit clears that approval and requires another review. Pages that have not passed the gate are excluded from the XML sitemap and carry a noindex instruction.
- Percentiles in Is My Time Good? are computed from every active ranked time on this site, not from a rule of thumb.
- Board specs and densities are the standard configurations: 9×9 with 10 mines, 16×16 with 40, and 30×16 with 99.
- Pattern claims in the guides are verified by exhaustive enumeration of every mine placement consistent with the numbers shown, not by repeating convention.
- World records are attributed to the authority that verified them, because the figures genuinely differ between verifying bodies.
Readers can report an error through the contact page. Definitions are kept consistent in the Minesweeper glossary, so terms such as 3BV, efficiency, chording and 50/50 mean the same thing across guides and tools.
What it costs
Playing is free and always has been, with no account required to start. An account adds leaderboard placement, saved times, trophies and daily quests. A premium tier removes ads and adds cosmetics; nothing behind it affects gameplay, board generation or ranking.
Start here
Choose the next step that matches your goal
New to the game: the rules, then Beginner. Already playing and want to get faster: the pattern guide and the efficiency guide. Want to know where you stand: the global ranking.