MineRace.io is a daily Minesweeper race. Three sizes, three leaderboards, one fresh puzzle per size per day. Every puzzle is solvable through pure logic, so the race rewards skill instead of luck. We built it because the daily puzzle format has worked for crosswords and chess and word games, and Minesweeper deserved its own version of that.
Who we are
MineRace is published by VexHex Games Inc. We make small, focused games for the web that we want to play ourselves. Minesweeper is a game we have all spent too many hours on, going back to the Windows 3.1 days. Building MineRace was an excuse to do it properly.
What makes it different
Three things, in order of importance.
- No-guess guarantee. Every puzzle can be solved through pure logic. If you lost, the information was on the board. No 50/50 corner is going to ruin your run.
- Daily race format. Everyone on Earth plays the same puzzle each day. The leaderboard is by retries first, then time. You can race your friends on a shared link to the same puzzle and the times are directly comparable.
- All-time leaderboards. For each size, we track the all-time fastest perfect runs across every day. So one great performance lives forever on the board.
How we generate puzzles
Each puzzle is generated from a deterministic seed based on the date and the size. The generator places bombs randomly, then runs a constraint propagation solver to verify the board is solvable without guessing. If the solver gets stuck, the generator perturbs one bomb and retries until a valid no-guess board is found. Read the longer version on the no-guess page.
What we are not
We are not trying to be the most feature-rich Minesweeper site. There are sites with dozens of variants, custom boards, mod tools, tournaments. We are not those sites. We do daily puzzles in three sizes, and we do them well. That is the whole pitch.
We are also not the place to host random unsolvable boards. If you want to play a coin-flip Minesweeper for nostalgia, the classic Windows version is what you want. We made a deliberate choice to never ship a puzzle that requires guessing.
Contact
For anything at all you can reach us at hello@minerace.io. For legal, terms, or privacy questions, the right inbox is legal@minerace.io.
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