Sources And Dates
How This Site Is Built — Sources, Dates and Blank Fields
Every figure on this site traces back to a dated document — operator terms, a licence register, or an operator's own published page — and where no such document exists, the field stays blank rather than filled with a guess.
This page explains how this site is built from source documents: exactly what counts as a source, when each category of document was read, and why a blank field means no document is on file rather than an unmade guess.
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Grid size — usually a 5×5 board of 25 covered tiles, set by the studio, not the player.
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Mine count — chosen before the first click; more mines shrink every safe-tile chance that follows.
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Safe-tile counter — how many uncovered tiles have not been a mine so far in this round.
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Multiplier ladder — the number printed against the current safe-tile count, read off the paytable, not guessed.
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Cash-out step — the moment a player takes what the ladder currently shows, before the next click.
Operator terms
The identity-check criteria behind the ranking — whether a clause exists, whether it names when a check starts, whether it prints a money amount, and whether it sets a document deadline — are all read directly from each operator's own published terms. That reading took place between 24 August and 12 September 2026. Where a specific criterion is not printed in an operator's terms as read on those dates, the score for that criterion is simply not awarded; it is not assumed based on how other operators tend to write their terms.
Licence registers
Mine count set
Chosen once, before the first tile; it fixes every odds figure for the rest of that round.
A tile is clicked
One of the remaining covered tiles is revealed; the round either continues or ends there.
The ladder updates
Each safe click moves the multiplier to the next printed step — the same step for every player who reaches it.
Cash out, or click again
The only two choices at any point: take the current ladder value, or risk it against the next tile.
The fifth identity-check criterion — whether the issuing authority's own register lists the licence under the operator's own domain — is checked against the relevant licensing register directly, separate from anything the operator's own site claims about its licence. Those register checks took place between 8 and 13 September 2026. A register entry that does not name the operator's own domain does not earn this criterion, regardless of what the operator's own marketing pages say about being licensed.
Mines-in-the-lobby facts
Whether Mines itself appears in a given operator's lobby is read only from that operator's own published page — a games list, a provider page, or homepage copy naming the game directly. This is deliberately a narrower standard than the identity-check criteria: a third-party listing or a general reputation is not treated as confirmation here, only the operator's own page. The most recent of these reads was captured 16 September 2026, with the earliest among the four confirmed names captured 2 September 2026. Where no such page has been read for an operator, the Mines column reads “—,” meaning no document is on file — never a claim that the game is absent from that operator's lobby.
The two real-money tests
Two dated, editorial real-money tests sit behind this site, and no others. The Vave cycle is dated 28 August 2026: the editorial team's own deposit went in and came back out again with no verification request appearing anywhere along the way, across a total reaching roughly 5,000 USDT, though clause 8.7 reserves the operator's right to ask at any point before a withdrawal. The TrustDice cycle ran differently and took longer, spanning several weeks of May 2026 — deposits and withdrawals cleared without a check up to about 5,000 USD, until a “payment under review” notice appeared, followed by a Veriff identity check, a rejected driver's licence, a passport that took five submissions before it finally cleared, and, later still, a further document request that arrived by email. Neither test is attributed to any other operator on this site, and no other operator carries an equivalent account of a real-money cycle.
How this site is built to handle a blank field
Every fact on this site falls into one of three states: confirmed by a specific, dated document; contradicted by one; or simply not covered by any document this site has read. Only the third state produces a blank field, and a blank field is written here as “no document on file,” “no figure is printed for” a given operator, or a plain dash in the ranking's Mines column — never as a guess dressed up as a fact, and never phrased as though the underlying reality itself were somehow in doubt. The absence of a document says something about what has been read so far, not about what a given casino actually offers or requires.
That same standard applies to the mines gambling sites ranking as a whole: a score of 0 out of 5 means none of the five criteria were found printed or listed in the documents read for that operator, not that the operator was checked and found lacking in some broader sense. The mechanics pages on this site — covering the grid, the mine count, the multiplier ladder and the provably fair scheme — are treated differently again, as general, describable mechanics rather than dated facts about a specific operator, which is why mines gambling game and provably fair mines carry no read date of their own — they describe how the round works in general, not what one operator's terms say about it.
What counts as a source, and what does not
A document this site treats as reliable is one an operator or a licensing authority publishes itself: printed terms, a licence register entry, or a games list, provider page or homepage the operator controls directly. A third-party summary, a forum post, a review aggregator's claim, or a general reputation is never treated as confirmation for any fact on this site, even where that third-party account happens to match what a primary document later shows. That standard is deliberately narrow. It means a true fact about an operator can still show up here as a blank field, simply because the primary document confirming it has not been read yet — which is a statement about how this site is built, not a statement about the operator.
Keeping the reading current
None of the dates above are treated as permanent. Operator terms change, licence registers get updated, and a games list can add or drop a title between one capture and the next. Where this site's own record is later checked against a newer version of the same document, any figure that changed is updated and the new read date replaces the old one; a figure is never left standing on an outdated document once a newer one has been read. Until that re-check happens, the dates set out above are the current, accurate record of what this site has actually read.