Mines Game in India: Play Online, Demo, UPI Sites

A five-by-five grid, a number of hidden mines you choose, and a cash-out button. Mines is Minesweeper with money on it, and it is the fourth most-searched crash-lobby game in India. Here is the game, the maths and the apps to avoid.

Rohan Mehta, Editor, India
Updated 24 October 2026 · Fact-checked by Daniel Reyes · How we test

The Mines game is the one you reach for when Aviator feels too fast. There is no countdown, no plane, no other players. A grid of 25 tiles, some of them hiding mines, and a decision after every click: one more tile, or take the money. It is Minesweeper with a cash-out button, and it has quietly become the fourth most-searched game in India's crash lobbies at around 16,000 searches a month.

The Indian search results are the usual mix: a Softonic APK that is a puzzle game, a Play Store listing that is a different puzzle game, and a handful of thin affiliate pages. There is also "Yono Mines", an app that borrows a bank's name and deserves its own section. First, the real thing.

Mines game demo: play free, no login

Set three mines and reveal tiles until you hit one. Note how many you cleared. Then set ten mines and try again. The first setting lets you reach five or six tiles most rounds; the second rarely lets you past the second. The multipliers you see on the cash-out button are the game pricing that difference exactly.

What is the Mines game

Spribe released Mines in 2019, the same year as Aviator and Plinko, as part of the mini-game range that now sits in every crash section. Hacksaw Gaming, Turbo Games and Stake have their own versions with the same rules and different RTPs. When Indian players say "mines game" they usually mean Spribe's, because that is what 1win and 1xBet put at the front of the lobby.

The rules fit in a paragraph. There are 25 tiles. Before the round you choose how many are mines, from 1 to 24. You place a bet and start clicking. A safe tile shows a gem and raises the multiplier on the cash-out button. A mine shows an explosion and ends the round with your stake gone. You can press cash out after any safe tile and take stake times multiplier. Clearing every safe tile cashes out automatically.

The mine positions are set before your first click by a provably fair algorithm using a hashed server seed and your client seed. Your clicks do not move them. There is no pattern in where they were last round.

How to play the Mines game step by step

1. Choose the number of mines. The slider or dropdown runs from 1 to 24. This is the only strategic choice in the game, and it sets the whole multiplier ladder.
2. Set your stake. ₹10 minimum at most Indian casinos, up to the brand's cap.
3. Press Bet and click a tile. Any tile. Position does not matter; the mines were placed randomly and your first click is as safe as any other.
4. Keep clicking or cash out. Each gem raises the multiplier shown on the button. Press it whenever you want the money.
5. Or hit a mine. The grid reveals every mine, the stake is gone, and the next round starts when you press Bet again.

Auto play exists on most versions: you pick a fixed set of tiles and a stake, and the game runs rounds for you, cashing out if all chosen tiles are safe. It is convenient and it is also the fastest way to turn ₹2,000 into nothing while looking at your phone, so use the stop-loss field.

Three mines, four gems found. The next click has a 3 in 21 chance of ending the round.

Mines game multipliers and odds by mine count

The multiplier after each safe tile is the inverse of the probability of getting there, discounted by the house edge. With one mine, the first click has a 24 in 25 chance of being safe, so it pays a hair over 1.04x minus 3%. With ten mines it is 15 in 25, so about 1.62x. The table shows Spribe's ladder, rounded.

Every cell in that table is priced at the same 97%. There is no mine count that is secretly generous. A rupee example makes the trade-off concrete. You bet ₹100 and want to leave with ₹200.

• At one mine you need to clear about 13 tiles. Thirteen clicks, each a little riskier than the last, with a roughly 48% chance of making it.
• At three mines, 2x arrives at the fifth tile. Five clicks, same rough odds.
• At ten mines, 2x arrives on the second tile. Two clicks, same odds.
• At 24 mines, one click pays 24x or nothing, with a 4% chance of the 24x.

The route is yours. The price is not. The global Mines page has the full probability maths if you want to see how the ladder is built.

Mines game RTP by studio

That bottom row matters. The most-visited "mines game" result in India demos the Turbo Games version at 95%, two points worse than Spribe's and four worse than Stake's. At the same casino, picking the wrong tile of the lobby costs you more than any decision inside the game. Check the studio name under the thumbnail.

Where to play Mines in India

These brands carry at least one real Mines, take UPI, and have paid our India editor. The order is our preference and reflects how easy it is to find the Spribe version in the lobby.

11win

Spribe Mines under Fast Games; also the Hacksaw and Turbo versions, so check the studio name.

Check here

41xBet

Mines page with its own URL plus half a dozen other Mines-style titles; the Spribe one is labelled.

Visit

At 1win it is under Casino, then Fast Games, pinned near Aviator. At 1xBet the direct URL is easiest, or type "mines" into the lobby search and pick the Spribe-labelled one from the five or six results.

Mines game registration, login and UPI deposits in India

There is no Mines login; you log in to the casino and Mines is a tile inside it. Registration takes a phone number or email, a password and an OTP, then a currency choice, and you should pick INR before the first deposit. Deposits are by UPI at ₹300 to ₹500 minimum: open Deposit, choose UPI or one of the PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm buttons, pay the UPI ID or QR shown from your own app within the window, and the balance credits in a few minutes. The payee will be an individual or a small firm, not the casino, which is normal for this market and is why you keep the UTR until the credit shows. IMPS is there for larger sums and USDT on TRC-20 is the fallback. Withdrawals go back to UPI or IMPS from ₹500 to ₹1,000, with Aadhaar or PAN plus a selfie on the first one; 1win has paid ours within hours on weekdays. The full step-by-step with UTR notes is on the crash games in India hub.

Mines game bonus in India

Spribe pays no bonuses. What the casinos attach to Mines is the welcome package on a first deposit, which every brand above runs, and the terms decide whether it is worth having: most require the bonus to be wagered a number of times, and several count mini-games like Mines at a reduced rate or not at all. If Mines is excluded, deposit without the bonus. Free bets occasionally drop from 1win's and 1xBet's promo pages and are small and usually wager-free. The "Mines bonus code" results on Telegram are referral codes. Amounts change monthly, so read the offer page rather than a figure on a review.

Mines game app and APK download

Spribe does not publish a Mines app. The Softonic "Mines APK" and the two Play Store "Mines Game" listings ranking for this keyword are a puzzle game and two ad-funded clones with a withdrawal screen that never pays; Google Play does not list real-money gambling in India, so nothing on the store is the casino game. The legitimate routes on a phone are the 1win, 1xBet, 4rabet or Melbet apps, downloaded as an APK from the operator's own domain with Play Protect left on, or Safari's Add to Home Screen on iPhone. The game inside is the same HTML5 file as the browser version with the same 97% RTP. The Chicken Road app page walks through the safe install and every step applies to Mines.

Yono Mines and the other "earning" apps

Search "mines game" from India and the autocomplete offers "yono mines game", about 2,000 searches a month. Here is what it is.

YONO is SBI's banking app, and it has nothing to do with gambling. "Yono Mines", "Yono Rummy", "Yono Games" and the rest are a family of apps and sites that borrow the name to look trustworthy, promoted through Telegram and YouTube with referral codes. The Mines game inside them looks like Spribe's. The structure around it is different: deposits by UPI to a personal account, a referral bonus for every friend you bring, a withdrawal process that works for small amounts at first and then develops "verification" problems once the balance is worth having. The apps are not on Google Play. They are APKs from a Telegram link, which is also where their malware risk comes from.

This is not the same category as the Chicken Road and Plinko clones on the Play Store, which are ad farms that never involve your money. The Yono family takes deposits. That makes it worse. We do not list it, we would not deposit at it, and if you already have, withdraw what it lets you and stop.

The test is the same one we use for every game on this site. The real Mines is made by a named studio, runs inside a casino with a licence from somewhere, and that casino has paid us. If a game arrives by Telegram APK with a referral code, it fails all three.

Mines game predictor and "Mines hacks"

Mines attracts predictor sellers because the grid looks like something a clever person could read. It is not. The mine positions come from a server seed generated before the round, hashed and shown to you, combined with a client seed you can set yourself. Nothing can derive the positions from the hash. The "Mines predictor" bots on Telegram that tell you which tiles are safe are choosing tiles at random, which is exactly as good as you choosing them. The "Mines hack" APKs want your casino login or your phone. We explain the whole industry in the predictor guide.

Mines game strategy and tips

What does hold up: pick your mine count and your exit tile before you press Bet, and stop at the exit tile. The leak in Mines is "one more gem", and the round's mines were placed before you found the first one. Beyond that, the habits are the same as every game in the lobby. Stake 1% to 2% of the session, so ₹10 to ₹20 on ₹1,000. Match the mine count to the session you want rather than the win you want: one to three mines for an hour, ten or more for a lottery ticket. Use auto play only with its stop-loss field filled in. Set a take-profit and act on it. Tile position is irrelevant, corners are not safer, and a run of early mines does not make the next grid kinder. The crash game strategy guide runs the common systems in rupees.

Is the Mines game legal in India?

India has no licence for Mines or any real-money online game. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act 2025 bans real-money games offered from within India and puts the liability on operators, payment processors and advertisers. The casinos above are licensed abroad and continue to serve Indian players; the Act does not criminalise the player and does not protect them. Play only if it is legal where you live. 18+ only.

Our verdict on the Mines game in India

If you like the structure of Mines and want it with more movement, Chicken Road is the same decision-per-step idea on a road with a 98% RTP. If you want the pure drop with no decisions, Plinko is next door in every lobby.

Mines rounds take seconds and auto play takes less. Set a limit before you start. iCall (9152987821) and the Vandrevala Foundation (1860 2662 345) are free and confidential if it stops being fun. 18+ only.

Rohan Mehta, Editor, India

Rohan has tracked crash games in India since Aviator first appeared in Telegram groups in 2021. He tests every brand on this page on a Jio connection from Pune, with a UPI deposit, before it goes live. More from Rohan.