Battleship Minesweeper
Why We Picked Battleship Minesweeper
The rule in Battleship Minesweeper is one sentence long — clicking to place and confirm — and the rest of the game is working out what that costs. Legible at every size, which is rarer on this shelf than it should be. The loop is clicking to place and confirm, and the board gives you room for one mistake, not two. We kept it because a lost board teaches you something you can use on the next one. On the record: 1,399 plays, 4.4 out of 5 from 27 ratings, and 103 of 172 on the puzzle shelf.
How to Play
The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:
- Dismiss any download or pop-up a game triggers; the run continues without it.
- There is no fail state beyond an unusable board, and an unusable board is usually your own doing.
- If a placement feels forced, back out and try the other side of the board.
Editor’s Note
If you want a puzzle that congratulates you, this is not it. If you want one that stays quiet, it is. It rewards looking at the board for ten seconds before the first move, which few browser puzzles do.
Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.
Publisher Description
Supplied by the game’s publisher; reproduced as-is.
The goal of the game is to detect all the mines in the grid. The game is over if a single mine is clicked.
