Mines Game Odds: Mine Count, Safe Tiles and the Moment to Cash Out

Picture a board of face-down tiles, a handful of which hide mines: that is the whole of a mines game. Before the round you set the mine count, place a stake, and start opening tiles. Each safe tile raises the payout multiplier; a mine ends the round and takes the stake; and after any safe tile you may cash out. Names in 747 Live’s game list show several versions, so the maths below uses a plain hypothetical board you can apply to any of them.

How a mines game round runs

1. Choose the mine count (the game’s panel shows the range it allows).
2. Place the stake.
3. Open a tile. Safe: the multiplier steps up. Mine: the round is over.
4. After each safe tile, either open another or cash out at the current multiplier.

Gate check: the grid size and allowed mine counts differ between versions. Read the rules screen of the one you open before using the numbers below.

How risk rises with each tile: hypothetical board

Take a 25-tile board with 3 mines, a setting chosen for illustration only. The chance that every tile you have opened is safe falls quickly:

Each pick is harder than the last, because one safe tile fewer remains among the covered ones. A real game pays a little under the fair multiplier, which is its edge, so no stopping point turns the long-run maths in your favour.

Mine count changes the first step

On the same 25 tiles, the mine count alone moves the odds of the very first pick:

More mines pay a bigger step per safe tile because each step is riskier. The trade never changes direction: bigger steps, sooner losses.

Problem: opening one more tile because the last few were safe. Fix: the next tile is riskier than any before it on that board, so cash out at the count you chose before the round.

Mines titles in the lobby’s list

Several studios supply a version, and their boards and payout ladders are not identical:

• JILI: Mines, Mines Gold, MINES GRAND and a football-themed Mines Footballjil.
• Hacksaw: Mines.
• POPOK GAMING: Mines.
• BGaming: Mine Gems, and Minesweeper XY, which borrows the old desktop puzzle’s name.

Carry-on: the version name. Open its rules screen, note the grid size and the mine counts it allows, and only then apply the tables above.

Other arcade routes

For a game with one exit decision instead of many, read crash games and the cash-out call, a category of 29 games on the lobby. For an arcade machine that tempts you with a shelf that looks ready to fall, see why a coin pusher is never due. Shooting rooms and the other arcade titles are on the fishing games list.

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