Mines at CaptainsBet Zambia: The Mines Game Explained
Mines is a risk game from Spribe, released in September 2021, with an advertised RTP of 97%. On a 5×5 grid you choose how many mines are hidden, then open tiles until you decide to cash out. At CaptainsBet it’s in the Fast Games section, takes 1 to 20 mines per round and has a maximum multiplier of 10,000x.
Quick answer
- Provider: Spribe, September 2021. A fixed 5×5 grid with 25 tiles in total.
- RTP: 97%. That’s a long-term theoretical average, never the expected result of a session.
- Stake per round: limits are shown in kwacha inside the game.
- Maximum multiplier: 10,000x, only reachable with extreme-risk settings.
- Where to find it: the Fast Games section, next to the other quick-round games at CaptainsBet casino and betting.
- The only real decision: how many mines to put on the grid. Everything else is pace and patience.
The grid is in the Fast Games section. 18+. Please gamble responsibly.
Mines game details
Before any talk about risk, it helps to have the numbers in front of you. Everything in this table comes from the game’s info sheet. That sheet, which you open from the Mines menu, is what counts if you’re ever unsure about a specific limit.
How do you play Mines?
Choose your stake and the number of mines, open tiles one by one and tap cash out before you hit a mine. If you hit one, you lose your stake for that round and the grid resets. Each safe tile reveals a star and pushes your running multiplier up. Your win is your stake multiplied by the value at the moment you cash out. This Mines guide covers how to play, what RTP to expect and what changes with the number of mines, following the official game sheet step by step.
Open the game
Go to the Fast Games tab and choose Mines. The 25-tile grid appears closed, waiting for your bet.
Set your stake
Enter the round’s amount on the panel. Limits are shown in kwacha, and while you get the feel of it, stick to the minimum.
Choose the mines
Pick how many mines are hidden, from 1 to 20. This is the decision that sets the risk for the whole round.
Open tiles
Each star raises the multiplier. You can tap tiles yourself or let the random tile button choose for you.
Cash out in time
The cash-out button ends the round at your running total. Decide your target before you start, not halfway through the grid.
How many mines should I choose?
It depends on just one thing: how fast you want the multiplier to climb, and how many tiles you’re willing to open before the round blows up. It’s the only decision in the mines game that’s truly yours, and it’s a straight trade-off with no free lunch.
The two extremes show how it works. With 1 mine hidden, 24 of the 25 tiles are safe, and the first tile you open pays about 1.01x, which is next to nothing. To grow the value you have to open tile after tile, in a long round with slow progress. With 20 mines, only 5 safe tiles are left, and the first one pays about 4.85x. That’s almost five times your stake in a single tap, but the obvious catch is that the vast majority of rounds end right there.
There’s no point memorising in-between values from other sites. The game panel shows the next tile’s multiplier in real time, before you tap. Get used to looking at that number, because with every tap it tells you what you’re really risking.
What is the RTP of Mines?
It’s 97%. Anyone searching for mines RTP always finds this same number, because the game sheet lists one figure for the whole game, not one for each number of mines. What your choice of mines changes is the risk profile: the same house edge spread over rare, big rounds or frequent, small ones.
It’s worth understanding what 97% really means. It’s a theoretical average worked out over a huge number of rounds by everyone, not a forecast of what you’ll take home. Put simply, for every K100 that goes through the game across all players, about K3 stays with the house. Over a session of twenty rounds, that number predicts absolutely nothing.
A high RTP is still an edge in the house’s favour. The expected value of every round is negative, whether you open one tile or ten, and no mine setting changes that.
Is there a pattern in where the mines go?
No. The mines are placed by a random number generator when each round starts, stay where they are until that round ends and are placed again from scratch in the next round. There are no safer corners, no diagonals that “usually come up” and no tiles that become jinxed after a mine.
There’s a second, subtler mistake worth clearing up: the game doesn’t store luck. Opening three stars in a row doesn’t mean the game “owes” you anything, and hitting a mine on the first tile five rounds running doesn’t mean the sixth has to go well. The grid has no memory between rounds. Within a round, the multiplier simply reflects how much risk you’ve already taken, not a reward for earlier tiles.
Is auto mode worth using?
For most people, no, and it’s fair to say why plainly: auto mode is the quickest way to empty a whole balance without noticing. It lets you set up to 500 rounds in a row with the same stake, the same number of mines and the same number of tiles to open. Then it runs on its own while you watch.
The problem isn’t technical, it’s about perception. When you tap yourself, each round takes an action, and there’s always a split second to change your mind. On auto, 200 rounds go by in a few minutes and your balance drops quietly, with no moment where your brain registers “I just bet again”. You only see the total at the end, and by then there’s nothing left to decide.
If you still want to use it, set your brakes before you start: a small number of rounds, the minimum stake per round and a loss limit in the settings. The random tile button is a different thing. It just picks a tile for you when you don’t feel like deciding, and it doesn’t change the odds or the multiplier.
Managing your money: what replaces “strategy”
There’s plenty of content out there labelled mines strategy, and nearly all of it promises what it can’t deliver. No sequence of taps, magic number of mines or tile pattern turns a negative expected value into a positive one. What does exist, and really matters, is controlling your exposure: deciding how much you risk, for how long and when you stop.
In practice there are four decisions, all made before the first round. First, the total for the session, which should be money you can lose completely without it affecting your life. Never use money meant for rent, school fees or a mobile money loan. Second, how much goes into each round: one fiftieth of your budget is a sensible starting point, because it leaves room for a long run of failed rounds. Third, your exit target, meaning how many tiles you’ll open before cashing out, decided in advance and not in the heat of the grid. Fourth, a loss limit and a win limit that end the session with no arguing.
It’s also worth noticing one detail of the format: Mines has no fixed round length, so there’s no natural pause to make you stop and breathe. That’s a big difference from live tables, where the dealer sets the pace and there are breaks between hands. If you feel you’ve lost track of time, the limit and self-exclusion tools in your account are there for exactly that. Keep in mind too that casino games don’t count towards sports bonus wagering.
Is there a free Mines demo?
Much of the casino catalogue has a demo mode with play money, and when a free Mines demo is available, the button appears on the game’s own page. It’s the right way to see the effect of each number of mines at no cost. Play ten rounds with 2 mines and another ten with 15, and see the difference in pace for yourself. If you can’t see a demo button, the game only runs with real money.
Playing Mines on your phone
Mines opens in your phone’s browser without installing anything, and the 5×5 grid fits a portrait screen well. In fact, it’s one of the quick-round games that suits portrait mode best, because it doesn’t depend on real-time reactions. Half a second of lag on your connection won’t snatch a tile away from you.
To play with real money, check how to deposit via mobile money. The cashier shows the methods available in Zambia and the minimum amount for each one. If you want to compare formats before choosing, there’s BGaming’s Plinko, where you decide nothing after dropping the ball, and the chicken game, which swaps the grid for a road you cross step by step.
Keep reading
- BGaming’s Plinko: 99% RTP, adjustable lines and three risk levels.
- the chicken game: four difficulty levels and the real RTP of each.
- live tables: roulette, blackjack and game shows with real dealers.
- deposit via mobile money: how the cashier works, withdrawals and identity checks.
Frequently asked questions
No. The setting is locked the moment the round starts, because that’s when the mines are placed on the grid. To change the number, you have to finish the round in progress and start a new one.
Every tile that isn’t a mine. With 1 mine hidden that’s up to 24 tiles, and with 20 mines it’s only 5. Once you’ve opened every safe tile, the round closes automatically at the maximum multiplier for that setting.
Not at all. It just picks a closed tile for you, saving you the decision. The chance of that tile hiding a mine is exactly the same as if you’d picked it yourself.
The game’s multiplier goes up to 10,000x, a figure that only appears with extreme-risk settings and the grid almost fully opened. The cash cap depends on your stake and the limits shown in the game sheet.
Not for the sports bonuses. The Sport Welcome Bonus is wagered on accumulators of three or more selections at odds of 1.5–10, so casino games don’t count. Always check the conditions of the current offer before betting with bonus funds.
Yes. Spribe offers a single version of the game, with the grid fixed at 5×5 and the mine range fixed between 1 and 20. What varies are the account’s stake limits, the currency and the promotions around it.
As long as you like. Unlike games with a timer, there’s no clock running, so you can think between taps. That freedom is misleading, because a session can string together dozens of rounds in a few minutes without feeling like much time at all.
Neither option is better in terms of theoretical return. The only thing that changes is how the risk is spread. Few mines give long rounds and small wins, while many mines give big jumps and rounds that almost always end quickly.
Updated October 2026. 18+ only. Please gamble responsibly. In Zambia, betting is regulated under the Betting Control Act, and there is no dedicated licensing regime for online gambling; CaptainsBet operates under an international Curaçao licence and does not hold a Zambian licence.
