Board sizes, mine counts, and mine density for Easy, Medium, and Hard — and which one you should play.
Bean Boom offers three difficulty levels, using the same standard board sizes players have known since the original Windows Minesweeper. The rules never change between difficulties — only the size of the board and the number of hidden mines.
| Difficulty | Board | Mines | Mine Density | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 9×9 (81 cells) | 10 | ~12% | Beginners |
| Medium | 16×16 (256 cells) | 40 | ~16% | Intermediate |
| Hard | 16×30 (480 cells) | 99 | ~21% | Experts |
Easy mode is minesweeper for beginners — a 9×9 board with just 10 mines. At roughly 12% mine density, nearly every position can be solved with pure logic and well-known patterns like 1-1 and 1-2, so you rarely need to guess. Games are short (typically under a minute), which makes Easy perfect for:
Medium steps up to a 16×16 board with 40 mines (~16% density). The larger grid means more information to combine, and endgame positions occasionally require a careful judgment call. Most players consider Medium the sweet spot: challenging enough to stay interesting, forgiving enough to finish most games. If you can consistently win Medium, you're ready for Hard.
Hard is expert-level minesweeper: a 16×30 board with 99 mines (~21% density). With more than one in five cells hiding a mine, deduction becomes much tighter, and some boards contain positions that logic alone cannot resolve — calculated guessing becomes a real skill. Hard is where the fastest completion times earn the most respect, and where Egg Mode's chain reactions clear the most spectacular swaths of the board.
No. Only board size and mine count change. The rules — number meanings, flagging, first-click safety — are identical on every level.
Yes. On all three difficulties, your first reveal will never hit a mine.
All of them. Each difficulty has separate leaderboards — Classic Mode ranks completion time (daily, monthly, yearly, all-time) and Egg Mode ranks score (daily, monthly, all-time).
Yes, anytime, with one click above the game board. Your current game restarts at the new difficulty.