A skill-based challenge with real stakes — pay an entry fee, hit your win target, get it all back automatically.
Bean Boom's paid minesweeper challenges turn casual puzzle sessions into a personal tournament with rewards. Each challenge charges a small entry fee, sets a win target on a fixed difficulty, and gives you a time period to achieve it. Reach the goal and your fee is refunded in full, automatically, via PayPal. It is the purest form of a skill-based puzzle game with prizes: the only thing standing between you and your money back is your own minesweeper skill.
These are skill-based challenges, not games of chance. Minesweeper is a deterministic logic puzzle — given the same board, a stronger player wins more often, every time. There is no random payout, no odds, and no house edge on your ability:
When you win a game, your client submits a complete action log — every reveal, every flag, in order. The server replays the entire game from that log and recomputes the result itself. Only wins the server independently confirms count toward your challenge progress. A faked or tampered submission simply fails verification.
Boards are generated from a seed recorded in the log, so the server can rebuild the exact board you played. Your first click is always safe — on every difficulty, in every game.
Refunds are issued by the server the moment your target is reached — not by a human reviewing claims. If a refund transaction ever fails, a scheduled job automatically retries it until it succeeds.
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| Eligible mode | Classic Mode only (pure minesweeper, no powerups) |
| Win metric | Verified wins on the challenge's difficulty |
| Time period | Set per challenge (typically 30 days; some run up to a year) |
| Entry fee | Set per challenge, charged in USD via PayPal |
| On success | Full automatic refund to your PayPal account |
| On expiry | Target not reached in time → fee is not refunded |
| Rejoining | Allowed after completing a challenge (and getting your refund) |
You pay a small entry fee via PayPal to join a challenge. Each challenge sets a difficulty, a time period, and a target number of wins. Every verified win in Classic Mode counts toward your goal. Reach the target within the period and your entry fee is automatically refunded in full to your PayPal account.
No. Bean Boom challenges are skill-based, not games of chance. The board is fully solvable by logic, every win is verified by server-side replay, and success depends entirely on your puzzle-solving ability.
Every win is verified by server-side replay: the server replays your entire game from the recorded action log and recomputes the result itself. Only server-confirmed wins count toward challenge progress.
Automatically, the moment your final required win is verified. It arrives as a PayPal refund to the account you paid with. Failed refund transactions are retried by a scheduled job until they succeed.
If the challenge period expires before you reach the target number of wins, the entry fee is not refunded. That is the idea: the fee is a commitment device that motivates you to actually play and improve.
Yes. After completing a challenge and receiving your refund, you can rejoin the same challenge while it is still active — many players use their favorite difficulty as a recurring personal goal.
Only Classic Mode wins count, so results reflect genuine minesweeper skill. Egg Mode games (with chain-boom scoring) do not count toward challenge progress.