Minesweeper Arena Mode
L'Arène est le mode JcJ de Minesweeper.now — deux joueurs, un plateau, un gagnant. La vitesse et l'efficacité comptent toutes les deux. Vos performances vous rapportent des points d'arène qui améliorent votre score de trophées.
Comment Ça Fonctionne
Même plateau — les deux joueurs reçoivent des dispositions de mines identiques. Aucun avantage de chance.
Terminez en premier, scorez plus haut — le joueur le plus rapide et le plus efficace gagne le match et remporte des points d'arène.
Tickets d'arène — chaque match coûte un ticket. Trouvez-les dans les coffres, les quêtes et la boutique d'événement.
Tickets limités par rang — Les joueurs Novice ne trouvent que des tickets L1. Le rang Apex peut trouver des tickets L1 à 12.
The Arena Format
Arena is head-to-head: you and exactly one opponent are dealt the same mine layout and race to clear it. Because the board is identical, luck is removed entirely - the match is decided purely by who reads the board faster and clicks more efficiently. You spend one arena ticket to enter a match, and tickets come in twelve tiers (L1 through L12). The ticket tier sets the difficulty of the board you will play: an L1 ticket queues you onto a Beginner 9×9 grid, while an L12 ticket drops you into an extreme custom board. You can only find and play tickets up to the cap allowed by your current rank, so higher ranks unlock harder, higher-value arena matches.
Arena Levels & Ticket Tiers
Each ticket tier maps to a fixed difficulty band. Beginner-band tickets (L1–L2) are the most common drops; the Expert and custom tiers (L5 and up) are progressively rarer and reward more arena points per win. Below is the full ladder.
How Scoring Works: Speed + Efficiency
An arena match is not won by raw finish time alone. Your result combines two factors: speed (how quickly you clear the board, measured as 3BV/s) and efficiency (how few clicks you used relative to the board's 3BV - the same efficiency percentage tracked in solo ranked play). The player with the higher combined score takes the match. This is deliberate: a fast but sloppy run that wastes clicks can lose to a slightly slower opponent who chorded cleanly. If both players misclick a mine, the one who cleared more of the board before exploding scores higher, so it is almost always worth pushing rather than playing it ultra-safe.
Speed (3BV/s) - rewards reading the board at a glance and never hesitating on a cell you have already deduced.
Efficiency (%) - rewards chording and minimal clicks. 100% means you used exactly one click per 3BV group.
Worked Example
Arena Points, Rewards & Trophies
Every match you win adds to your running arena points total. Those points are a reward in two ways. First, they feed the dedicated Arena trophy category - at the top tier, every 7 arena points converts into 100 trophies, which directly raises your overall rank. Second, hitting milestones unlocks achievements: 10 total arena points awards the Gladiator achievement, which itself contributes to your Achievements trophy category. Winning higher-tier matches (from rarer L5+ tickets) awards more arena points than the common Beginner tiers, so seeking out and saving high-level tickets is the fastest way to grow your arena score.
Conseils
Échauffez-vous d'abord. Entraînez-vous à la même difficulté en mode solo avant de dépenser un ticket.
Accordez beaucoup. L'efficacité compte autant que la vitesse brute — nettoyez plusieurs cellules par clic.
Conservez les tickets de haut niveau. Les tickets L7+ sont rares — n'entrez que lorsque vous êtes confiant à cette difficulté.
- Efficiency decides close matches - learn the chording technique and what 3BV efficiency really measures.
- Win more boards faster by recognising the core deduction patterns.
- Warm up on the Expert Minesweeper board before spending a ticket, and see the Minesweeper Arena FAQ for quick answers.