About Mini Games
Mini Games is a small, independent website that hosts three classic browser puzzles — Minesweeper, Sudoku and Triple Tile — built from scratch with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No accounts, no downloads, no tracking beyond what is needed to keep the lights on.
Why this site exists
Most "free game" portals bury a two-minute puzzle under pop-ups, forced sign-ups and dozens of trackers. We wanted the opposite: a place where a game loads instantly, plays cleanly on a phone or a laptop, and gets out of your way. Every game here is something we personally enjoy playing on a coffee break, so the goal was to make each one feel fast, fair and genuinely fun to replay.
How the games are made
Everything is hand-coded. There is no game engine, no framework and no third-party game library involved. That choice keeps the pages tiny and lets us control every detail:
- Minesweeper uses a first-click-safe board, flood reveal for empty regions, and chording on satisfied numbers — the same mechanics longtime players expect.
- Sudoku generates each puzzle with a backtracking solver and verifies that it has exactly one solution before it ever reaches the screen, so no puzzle is ambiguous or unsolvable.
- Triple Tile builds every layout from complete sets of three, which guarantees a full clear is always possible if you play the right order.
Because the games are written this way, they run entirely in your browser. Nothing about your play — scores, times or moves — is sent to a server or stored anywhere but your own device for the length of a session.
Who runs it
Mini Games is maintained by a single hobbyist developer who has spent years playing and studying these puzzles. Design decisions, the difficulty tuning and the strategy articles in our blog all come from actually sitting down and playing hundreds of rounds, not from copying rules off another site. If something feels off, one person reads the feedback and fixes it.
Our commitment
- Games stay free and playable without an account.
- We won't gate a puzzle behind an interstitial ad or a forced video.
- We keep the site accessible on mobile, tablet and desktop.
- We write our own content and credit any outside source we lean on.
Have an idea, found a bug, or want a new game added? We'd genuinely like to hear it — see the Contact page.