Mines – Originals Slot Review
A little round cartoon bomb perches on the final S of the MINES wordmark, fuse lit, adrift in a narrow column of hot pink that fades through plum to near-black. Mines – Originals makes its hardest decision happen after you’ve won, not before you’ve bet: every clean pick asks whether the next tile is worth your entire potential win, and no slot with reels and paylines can put a question that sharp to you. It’s a 5×5 board of hidden coins and mines, a cashout button, and nothing else.
It comes from Coin Machine Gaming, a studio whose Tap n Cash and instant-win output shares this stripped-back instinct – Mines Disarm and Coin It are the closest cousins, with Cash Hog – Turbo Tap not far behind. The numbers are 96.00% RTP, very high volatility, a 73.71% hit frequency and bets from 0.10 to 20.00 per round. No spin, no waiting. Just you and the board.
Base Game & Features
Each round starts with a single bet and a board of 25 unrevealed tiles: coins and mines, hidden. Tap a tile and it opens. A coin raises your potential win and keeps the round alive. That’s the whole game, and it’s more than it sounds like.
Coin and Mine Tiles
Every coin you uncover increases the potential win, and every mine ends the round on the spot. Reveal a mine and you lose the potential win entirely. There’s no partial payout and no second chance.
Cashout
The Cashout button is the heart of it. Tap it at any point in a round and the current potential win is claimed and added to your balance, ending that round on your terms.
One bet entitles you to a chance at uncovering the entire board, but almost nobody takes it that far. The game is about choosing your own stopping point, and the tension lives in that choice.
The Payout Banner
A banner across the top of the game keeps the arithmetic in front of you at all times. What it displays depends on where you are in a round:
- Before a round: the highest potential win, based on your current risk and bet
- During a round: the number of coins remaining on the board
- During a round: your potential win, reflecting what you’d get if you cashed out now
- During a round: your next win, reflecting what you’d get if the next tile is a coin
Everything you need to decide is on screen. The gap between the cashout figure and the next-win figure is the whole of the game’s tension, made visible with every pick.
The Console
The controls around the board carry the information you’ll use most:
- Coins: the number of coins for your selected risk
- Mines: the number of mines for your selected risk
- Risk buttons: change the level of risk
- Bet (+) and (-): change the bet value
- Win: your latest win
- Auto: enables autoplay
Mines – Originals Bonus Features
There are no free spins or bonus rounds here – the features are the modifiers that shape how each round plays. Between them they decide how risky a board you face, how much each pick is worth, and how much of the work the game does for you.
Risk Levels
Before playing, you choose LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH risk. Higher risk awards bigger wins but places more mines on the board. At LOW, the board carries 22 coins and 3 mines.
The coin and mine counts for each setting are shown as you switch, so you always know exactly what you’re walking into. The choice is the single biggest decision the game asks of you.
Paytable Multipliers
Your payout multiplier depends on how many tiles you’ve picked and which risk you chose. The table steps up with every clean pick:
- 1 pick: 1.1x at LOW, 1.3x at MEDIUM, 1.6x at HIGH
- LOW table: runs to 22 picks, topping out at 1750x
- HIGH table: ends at 15 picks, topping out at 12500x
That 12500x is the game’s ceiling, and it demands fifteen consecutive clean picks on the most heavily mined board. At the minimum 0.10 stake, it’s the highest number the arithmetic reaches. Fifteen clean picks in a row is a long, long run of nerve.
Autoplay
Autoplay lets you pre-select which tiles to uncover in each automatic round and how many rounds to play, all at your current bet. It can be stopped at any time, and the remaining game count is displayed throughout.
Two limits shape a session:
- Loss Limit: ends autoplay if your balance drops by the set amount
- Win Limit: ends autoplay when a single win reaches the set amount
Between them, the run plays out hands-free until the count finishes or a limit breaks it. Each free game in a promotional offer represents one round, played on the same board with the same rules.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Playing it feels less like spinning and more like defusing: quiet, deliberate, one careful pick at a time, with the fuse only ever getting shorter. The reason to choose it over anything with reels is that the stopping decision is yours alone – nothing about the payout is out of your hands until you hand it over.
The strength is the payout banner, which puts the exact cost of greed on screen with every pick. You always know what cashing out now is worth against what one more tile could pay, and very high volatility stops feeling abstract when it’s written in front of you. The weakness is that the tenth round is the first round wearing different numbers. Nothing accumulates, nothing unlocks, and the board never surprises you structurally.
It’s for players who’d rather trust their own nerve than a bonus round, in short sessions on a small stake. Anyone chasing spectacle, features or a story will run out of reasons within ten minutes. For the rest, the bomb on the logo is an honest promise: small, contained, and always one tap from going off.
Mines – Originals FAQs
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What is the RTP of Mines – Originals?
96.00%, and it’s the same in every mode of the game – low, medium and high risk all return the same theoretical percentage. -
How volatile is Mines – Originals?
Very high. The game’s risk control and mine placement push the variance well above a standard slot, though the cashout button lets you bank wins at any point to manage it. -
What is the hit frequency of Mines – Originals?
73.71%, meaning roughly three in four rounds open with a winning tile. How long a winning run lasts is down to how many tiles you push for. -
How do you win in Mines – Originals?
Uncover coins to grow your potential win, then tap Cashout at any time to bank it. The more coins you reveal before cashing out, the higher your multiplier climbs. -
What happens if you reveal a mine in Mines – Originals?
The round ends immediately and the potential win you’d built up is gone in full. Whatever you’d uncovered up to that point counts for nothing. -
What do the risk levels do in Mines – Originals?
LOW, MEDIUM and HIGH risk change the mix of coins and mines on the 5×5 board. Higher risk means more mines but bigger multipliers – at LOW you’re playing with 22 coins and 3 mines. -
What is the maximum win in Mines – Originals?
The top rung of the multiplier table is 12500x your bet, reached by making fifteen clean picks on HIGH risk. The LOW table tops out at 1750x across 22 picks. -
Can you use autoplay in Mines – Originals?
Yes. You choose which tiles each automatic round uncovers and how many rounds to play, with a Loss Limit and a Win Limit available to end the session early. Autoplay runs at your current bet and can be stopped at any time. -
What are the betting limits in Mines – Originals?
Bets run from 0.10 to 20.00 per round, with the potential win scaling directly from your chosen stake and risk level. -
Who makes Mines – Originals?
Coin Machine Gaming, the studio behind the Tap n Cash series and instant-win titles like Mines Disarm and Coin It.
