What they have in common
Every one of these guides starts from the same place: the
Minesweeper embed code generator, where you choose a board size and
a theme. What it hands back has two parts — an iframe that renders the game,
and a short paragraph underneath it linking back to play-minesweeper.games. Paste both.
Most platforms take the whole thing verbatim. Notion is the exception among the site
builders, because it has no raw HTML block at all, so there you feed the URL to an embed
block and rebuild the credit line as a caption. Google Classroom takes no HTML either, so
there you post a link.
That credit link is the deal. The embed has no signup, no metering and no cost because the sites using it link back, so the link ships with every snippet and is not behind a toggle. It is plain HTML in your own page, visible in the generator before you copy it, and you are welcome to restyle it to match your design. The separate "Powered by" line drawn inside the game frame is the optional one.
The game itself runs entirely inside the frame. There is no script for your site to load, no account for your readers to create, nothing stored on your server. The board works with a mouse (left-click reveals, right-click flags, double-click chords) and on touch screens (tap reveals, long-press flags).
Board sizes and the space they need
- Beginner 9×9 — about 344 × 472 pixels. Safe in sidebars, narrow themes and phones.
- Intermediate 16×16 — about 536 × 664 pixels. Suits a normal blog post column.
- Expert 30×16 — about 956 × 664 pixels. Needs a full-width layout on a desktop screen.
Custom boards work too: add ?size=12x12&mines=20 to the embed URL for any
shape between 5×5 and 30×30. Add &theme=dark or
&theme=retro to match your site.