Shuffle Mines calculator
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Choose the number of mines and how many gems you plan to reveal. You get the multiplier, the real chance of getting there, and the full payout chart for that board, all derived from Shuffle's official 1% house edge.
Full chart for 3 mines
| Picks | Multiplier | Win chance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.1250x | 88.00% |
| 2 | 1.2857x | 77.00% |
| 3 | 1.4786x | 66.96% |
| 4 | 1.7120x | 57.83% |
| 5 | 1.9974x | 49.57% |
| 6 | 2.3498x | 42.13% |
| 7 | 2.7904x | 35.48% |
| 8 | 3.3485x | 29.57% |
| 9 | 4.0661x | 24.35% |
| 10 | 5.0044x | 19.78% |
| 11 | 6.2555x | 15.83% |
| 12 | 7.9615x | 12.43% |
| 13 | 10.3500x | 9.57% |
| 14 | 13.8000x | 7.17% |
| 15 | 18.9750x | 5.22% |
| 16 | 27.1071x | 3.65% |
| 17 | 40.6607x | 2.43% |
| 18 | 65.0571x | 1.52% |
| 19 | 113.85x | 0.87% |
| 20 | 227.7x | 0.43% |
| 21 | 569.25x | 0.17% |
| 22 | 2,277x | 0.04% |
How Mines multipliers are calculated
Shuffle Mines is a 5×5 board: 25 tiles, of which you choose how many hide mines (1 to 24). Every safe pick raises the multiplier. The multiplier is simply the fair payout for the odds you survived, minus the 1% edge:
multiplier = 0.99 ÷ P(surviving k picks)
With m mines, the chance of revealing k safe tiles in a row is the number of ways to pick k tiles among the 25 − m safe ones, divided by the number of ways to pick k tiles among all 25. With 1 mine and 1 pick, that is 24 ÷ 25 = 96%, so the multiplier is 0.99 ÷ 0.96 = 1.03125x.
Worked example
3 mines, 5 gems revealed. Survival chance: (22/25) × (21/24) × (20/23) × (19/22) × (18/21) ≈ 49.57%. Multiplier: 0.99 ÷ 0.4957 ≈ 1.9974x. So you roughly double your bet about half the time, and the 1% edge is the gap between those two numbers. On a $10 bet the expected loss is $0.10, whatever you choose.
Quick reference
| Mines | 1 pick | 2 picks | 3 picks | 5 picks | 10 picks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.03x | 1.08x | 1.13x | 1.24x | 1.65x |
| 3 | 1.13x | 1.29x | 1.48x | 2x | 5x |
| 5 | 1.24x | 1.56x | 2x | 3.39x | 17.52x |
| 10 | 1.65x | 2.83x | 5x | 17.52x | 1,077.61x |
| 24 | 24.75x | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
What this means for your play
- Low mines, few picks: high hit rate, small multipliers. The Mines version of grinding wager for XP at 1% edge.
- High mines: lottery-style multipliers with tiny odds. 24 mines and one pick is a 4% shot.
- Cashing out early or late does not change the edge. It only changes variance.
At 1%, Mines counts toward XP at 1 XP per $1 like any casino game, and returns 0.05% of wager as rakeback. Limits per bet, from Shuffle's help center: $20,000 max bet, $500,000 max win.
FAQ
+What is the house edge on Shuffle Mines?
1%, for every number of mines from 1 to 24, according to Shuffle's Mines game page.
+Is there a best number of mines?
No. Every combination of mines and picks has the same 1% edge, so none is better in expectation. More mines only means bigger multipliers with lower odds.
+What is the maximum multiplier on Shuffle Mines?
Shuffle lists a maximum of 5,148,297x (24 mines, one safe tile). The max win per bet is capped at $500,000 and the max bet at $20,000, per the help center limits.
+Does the order of picks matter?
No. Only the number of mines and the number of safe tiles revealed matter. Patterns and 'hot' tiles have no effect on a provably fair random board.
+Why do the multipliers in my game differ slightly?
The game may round displayed multipliers. Our figures are the exact 0.99 / probability values; check the in-game table if you see a small gap.
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