Mines+: How the Game Works

Pragmatic Play's Mines+ publishes a single return figure, and it covers a single way of playing: 97.50% RTP, stated in the rules as based on selecting 9 mines and playing the round to completion without using the cashout option. That condition excludes the game's central act. Cashing out early is the decision every round is built around, and the other 23 mine settings on the selector ship with no stated percentage at all; across the nine rules pages this is the only RTP statement. The consequence for reading the game is direct: the disclosure that matters is not the percentage on page five but the payout tables on pages two to five, where each of the 24 mine counts gets its own curve. Mines+ is exact where it lists multipliers and silent where it lists expectations.

The screen's arithmetic reconciles with the booklet. At 3 mines with a $2.00 stake, one diamond moves the CURRENT WIN readout to $2.22, matching the 1.11x first step of the published 22-diamond table; three diamonds show $2.92, the listed 1.46x, and cashing out pays exactly that. The green RANDOM button, which opens one tile per click, returned the same $2.22 on a first pick, so it is the same game with the choosing removed, not a separate mode. Every round also ends in disclosure: cash out or hit a mine and all 25 tiles reveal their contents, the unclicked ones dimmed, so the layout just played against is always shown afterward. The incoherence sits in the paperwork. The same rules pages describe a 'SPIN button' and 'spin speed settings', reel-slot boilerplate transplanted into a game that has no reels, and no page states how results are generated or how a player might verify them.

Two smaller frictions complete the record. Wins are rounded down to two decimals, so a deep multiplier tail pays slightly less than the raw readout math. The 5070293x ceiling is a hard round cap: reaching it ends the round and forfeits the remaining picks, which is why the 12-mines and 13-mines tables stop there instead of at a higher natural step. Beyond that, the documentation thins out. No provably fair seeds, hashes or any verification method appear in the captured rules, so the after-round reveal proves where the mines were but not how they were placed. Stakes run from $0.01 to $250, and autoplay is assembled from the manual game's own decision points: bet count, stop on loss, stop on profit, bet reset or increase after wins and losses. Released on 29 January 2026, Mines+ pairs a fully itemized paytable with a rulebook that never explains the machinery underneath.