PvP Minefield — 1v1 Mines Game (August 2026)

PvP Minefield takes the mines format and points it at another person. Both players get the same 25-tile board with the same three mines in the same places, and the winner takes the pot. That single change — a real opponent instead of a payout table — makes it the only game on Gift Club where what someone else does affects what you should do.

How to play PvP Minefield

1. Open PvP Minefield in the Games hub. Launch Gift Club inside Telegram, open Games and pick PvP Minefield.
2. Choose a stake and find a match. Stakes are 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 Stars. Both players stake the same amount, and the two stakes form the pot. You can also share a match code to play a specific person.
3. Work the board. The grid is 25 tiles with 3 mines hidden — the same layout for both players. Turn over safe tiles to build your score.
4. Watch your opponent's progress. You can see how far the other player has got. This is the information that makes the game different from solo Minefield.
5. Win the pot. The winner collects the doubled pot less a 5% rake — up to 1.90× their own stake. Both players earn XP equal to their stake regardless of who wins.

PvP Minefield payouts

PvP Minefield pros and cons

What actually changes when the opponent is a person

In solo Minefield, the only question is when to stop, and because every rung has the same expected value there is no wrong answer — just different variance. In PvP that reasoning collapses, because you are no longer trying to maximise a payout. You are trying to beat one specific number: whatever your opponent ends up with.

That makes your correct play conditional on theirs:

• If you are ahead and they have stopped: stop. Additional tiles cannot improve a win, and they can lose one.
• If you are behind and they have stopped: keep going. There is no value in a safe second place — the pot is all-or-nothing, so a cautious loss and a reckless loss pay identically.
• If they are still playing: the decision is genuinely open, and this is where the game gets interesting.

The asymmetry in that second point is the whole game. Because losing pays zero either way, a player who is behind should take risks that would be reckless in the solo version. Understanding that is worth more than any tile-picking theory.

The rake, and what it leaves you

Two players stake the same amount, the pot is doubled, and 5% goes to the house. The winner collects 1.90× their own stake, and unlike most head-to-head formats that figure is the same at every tier.

It holds at the small stakes because the remainder is not thrown away. At 5 Stars the pot is 10 and 95% of it is 9.5, which is not a whole Star: the payout is settled at 9 or 10 by a rounding draw weighted so the average is exactly 9.5. Every other tier divides cleanly — 19 at 10 Stars, 38 at 20, 95 at 50, 190 at 100 — so nothing is lost to rounding anywhere on the ladder.

What the rake does mean is that PvP is not a coin flip you can grind. Winning half your matches returns 95% of what you staked, which is the same house margin the solo games carry — the difference is that here it is taken from a pot rather than built into a payout table.

Both boards are identical, and that matters

The three mines sit in the same three tiles for both players. Neither side can get an easier layout, so the result is decided by how far each player pushes and which tiles they choose — not by who got the kinder board.

It also means the shared board is committed once, before either player moves, and can be verified by both afterwards.

XP is paid to both players

Unusually for a head-to-head format, the loser is not empty-handed: both players receive XP equal to their stake regardless of the result. The Stars are winner-take-all, but the level progression is not.

PvP or solo Minefield?

• Want to play right now: Solo Minefield. No opponent required.
• Want a bigger multiplier: Solo. PvP caps at 1.90× of your stake; solo Minefield's ladder reaches 70.96×.
• Want decisions that actually depend on something: PvP. It is the only game in the app with a genuine opponent to read.
• Want to play a friend: PvP, using a match code.

PvP Minefield FAQ