Sapper Squad
Minesweeper on a sand table you can turn in your hands.
At a glance
Sapper Squad is a free minesweeper game for iPhone, iPad and Android, made by mashfun, a one-person studio in Vietnam. It keeps the classic rules and moves the board onto a toy-soldier sand table you can rotate, with four missions from 8×8 to 16×16, an endless March mode and a Daily map. There are no ads, no account and nothing to buy, and it plays fully offline.
- Price
- Free
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Android
- Languages
- English, Tiếng Việt
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Released
- 2026
- Ads
- None
- Account
- Not needed
- Internet
- Not needed
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The rules are the ones you already know: every number counts the mines touching it, and the first tile you open is always safe. What is new is the board. Tiles are chunky plastic blocks, numbers stand up on top of them, flags plant into the dirt, and you can swing the camera around the field to read a tight corner from a better angle.
It was built for the five minutes you spend waiting for something. It opens straight into a board, it never asks who you are, and it has nothing to sell you.
Try it right here
A real board, same rules as the game. Tap a tile to dig; every number counts the mines touching it, and the first tile you open is always safe.
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What's inside
Never played minesweeper?
A guided round walks you through it on a small board. It rings the exact tile to touch, explains what the number means, shows you how to work out that two tiles must be mines, and lets you plant the flags yourself. Nothing can blow up while you learn. It runs the first time you open the game, and it is always there in the help page.
Four missions
Recruit is 8×8 with 10 mines. Soldier is 12×12 with 25. Sapper is 14×14 with 35. Commando is 16×16 with 50. Each one keeps its own top-ten board on your device.
March mode never stops
An endless minefield nine tiles wide. Clear a row to advance one metre, and keep going. Behind you a convoy rolls forward and picks up speed the further you get, and the mines grow denser as the road goes on. Stop thinking and it catches you. Play Free March for your own record, or take the Daily map — the same field for everyone, once a day, generated from the date on your device rather than from a server.
Scored on real difficulty
Your time is measured against the board’s 3BV, the number of moves a perfect player would need. A lucky board full of wide-open space cannot buy you a record, and the leaderboard only accepts boards that meet the level’s difficulty bar. Turn on Consistent Difficulty and the game shops around for a board close to the level’s standard, so your runs compare fairly against each other.
How it plays
- Tap to dig, hold to flag — or flip the mode button and do it the other way round
- Tap a number that already has all its flags to open everything around it at once
- Rotate, pan and zoom the board; one button snaps the view back
- A top-ten board per level, kept on your device
- Vietnamese and English
- Haptics and sound you can switch off
Questions that come up
Where are my records kept, and can I move them to a new phone?
They live in the app’s own storage on the device, because the game has no servers to keep them on. That means they do not follow you to a new phone. A device backup that includes app data will carry them across; a fresh install on a new phone starts empty.
The game says a board was rejected from the leaderboard.
Each level has a difficulty floor measured in 3BV. A board that falls below it still counts as a win, but it will not take a record slot — otherwise an unusually open board would beat a well-played hard one. Turning on Consistent Difficulty in settings makes the game pick boards near the level’s standard, so this stops happening.
Does it work without internet?
Yes, completely. There is nothing in the game that needs a connection, including the Daily map in March mode, which is built from the date on your device.
Can I turn off the haptics or the sound?
Both, separately, from the settings page.
Support
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