Mines+: How the Game Works

Pragmatic Play states the RTP of Mines+ as 97.50 percent, but the rules booklet ties that figure to one specific pattern: 9 mines selected, the round played to full completion, no cash-out taken along the way. Every other configuration, from a 1-mine grid grazed for a quick multiplier to a 24-mine sprint cashed out after a single pick, sits outside that disclosed number. Since the multiplier tables published for each mine count are cumulative and the payout curve changes shape as more mines are added, the published 97.50 percent describes a boundary case rather than a session type most players will reproduce. The documentation does not indicate whether other configurations trend higher or lower; it only fixes one point on a curve that the interface otherwise lets the player reshape mine by mine.

Two routes end a round. The player can press CASHOUT after any successful diamond pick, collecting stake times current multiplier immediately, or clear every diamond on the grid, which triggers an automatic payout at the maximum value for that mine count without a button press. This dual structure means the round has a documented endpoint independent of manual timing, a detail the autoplay panel builds on: SET CUSTOM PATH lets a player pre-assign which tiles a round will pick before autoplay starts, while STOP ON LOSS and STOP ON PROFIT sliders halt the sequence once a total is reached. Read together, these controls describe a game where pacing is not left to reflexes during a rising number, as in a live crash round, but is set in advance and then executed by the software pick after pick.

The interface tells the difference between an active tile and a resolved one without leaning on color. Diamonds are cut-gem icons, mines are round bombs with a skull, and the distinction survives every form of color blindness noted in the documentation because it rests on shape, not hue. What changes at round's end is opacity: every tile the player did not click reveals at reduced, washed-out opacity, so the full hidden layout becomes visible without pretending those tiles are still interactive. That reveal sequence, all at once and clearly demoted in brightness, is the one moment the grid explains itself after the fact, confirming which unclicked positions held diamonds and which held mines.

None of the nine pages in the in-game rules booklet mention a provably fair mechanism, a seed, or a hash the player can check against a result. For a category where verification claims are common enough to be treated as a comparison point on their own, the absence deserves its own footnote instead of being read either way. The documentation records the RTP percentage, the bet limits and the 5,070,293x cap in specific figures, but the mechanism by which any individual round's outcome can be independently confirmed is left undocumented rather than described as present or absent.