Minesweeper (PuzzleMadness)

About Minesweeper (PuzzleMadness)

PuzzleMadness's Minesweeper is a logic-puzzle take on the old game. The board starts with number clues already shown, and each number tells you how many of the squares around it (including diagonals) hold a mine. You mark mines and safe squares until the board is fully worked out. A 0 means none of its neighbours are mines, which is the usual way in.

The daily page opens today's puzzle on its own, and its title carries the date (on 3 October 2026 it read "Daily Medium Minesweeper Puzzle for Saturday 3rd October 2026 (Medium)"). There is a separate dated puzzle for each difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard and Mixed. Past days stay in the archive, so a missed puzzle can be played later, and there is a print version and an image download of the grid. PuzzleMadness does not publish solutions: the site tells you when you have finished a grid correctly or made a mistake. Each completed puzzle adds to your total on the Minesweeper monthly and all-time leaderboards, where only your best score on any one puzzle counts.

After the zeros, look for numbers whose unknown neighbours exactly match their count: all of those are mines. Then look for numbers that already have all their mines: the rest of their neighbours are safe. In Settings you can switch between a picker and a click-to-cycle way of marking squares.

PuzzleMadness is a British puzzle site with dozens of daily puzzle types in the browser, from many sudoku variants to logic grids such as Nurikabe, Hashi and Slitherlink. It is free to play and carries ads. A free account keeps track of the puzzles you have finished and puts your name on the leaderboards, and the badges next to usernames mark how many puzzles a player has completed.

How to play Minesweeper (PuzzleMadness)

1. Open the day's Minesweeper page and choose Easy, Medium, Hard or Mixed.
2. Mark the neighbours of every 0 as safe.
3. Where a number has exactly as many unknown neighbours as its value, mark them all as mines.
4. Keep going until every square is marked; the site tells you when the board is correct.

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Tips

• Work from zeros outward; each one clears up to eight squares.
• A number already touching its count of mines makes all its other neighbours safe.
• Compare two neighbouring numbers: the difference often pins down the squares they do not share.

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