Stake Mines: How to Play, Multiplier Chart & Calculator

The game of Mines at Stake comes down to two decisions: how many mines to place, and when to stop. More mines mean fewer gems on the grid and a faster-climbing multiplier, because each safe pick beats longer odds than the one before. The default is 3 mines. The slider runs from 1 to 24, and the gem count adjusts to fill the rest of the 25 tiles.

1. Enter your Bet Amount in the Manual tab.
2. Set the number of mines on the Mines slider.
3. Pick tiles one by one, or tap Random Pick to let the game choose.
4. Press Cashout at any point to collect the current multiplier; a mine ends the round and the bet is lost.

Every pick is a simple fraction. At 10 mines the first pick is already only a 60% shot, 15 tiles out of 25. With 3 mines, your first tile is safe 22 times out of 25, an 88% probability. The next pick has one gem fewer and one tile fewer, so it lands safely 21 times out of 24.

Multiply the two and the chance of surviving both picks is 77%. A fair price for that risk would be 1.30x, and the game pays 1.29x, because the multiplier already contains the 1% house edge. Push on to five picks and the odds of getting through drop to 49.6%, which is why the board shows 2.00x at that point.

A mines calculator for Stake does exactly this sum for any mine count and any number of picks. It returns the chance of surviving and the multiplier you would see, nothing more. No calculator and no mines strategy can tell you where the next mine sits, since the positions are fixed before the round starts. Here is how the odds look at a few settings:

The short answer is no, and the game’s maths shows why. Mine positions are set before each round from a server seed and your client seed, and the server seed is shown to you in hashed form before you bet. Once you rotate the seed pair, the old server seed is revealed, and any past round can be recomputed in the Verify tab of the Fairness window. The Seeds tab shows the Active Client Seed, the Active Server Seed (Hashed) and the number of bets made with the pair, and you can type a new client seed and rotate the pair whenever you like. Provably fair means the result was fixed in advance and can be checked, not that a round will win.

The house edge is published and identical at every setting. Each multiplier in the chart equals 99% of the fair price, whether you play with 1 mine or 24.