Stake Mines calculator
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Pick the number of mines and how many gems you plan to reveal: you get the exact Stake Mines multiplier, your chance of getting there and the payout on your bet, plus the full chart for every number of picks.
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 Stake Mines pays
The board has 25 tiles. You choose 1 to 24 mines and reveal tiles one by one; each gem raises the multiplier and you cash out whenever you want. Stake Mines has a 1% house edge, so every multiplier is set to return 99% of your bet on average:
Multiplier = 0.99 ÷ chance of revealing all your picks safely
We checked this against the game: with 3 mines, Stake shows a maximum multiplier of 2,277x, which is exactly 0.99 × 2,300 (there are 2,300 ways to place 3 mines, and only one leaves all 22 gems for you).
Quick reference
| Mines | 1 gem | 3 gems | 5 gems | Chance of 5 gems |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.0313x | 1.1250x | 1.2375x | 80.00% |
| 3 | 1.1250x | 1.4786x | 1.9974x | 49.57% |
| 5 | 1.2375x | 1.9974x | 3.3926x | 29.18% |
| 10 | 1.6500x | 5.0044x | 17.5154x | 5.65% |
Stake rounds the multipliers it displays to two decimals.
Strategy, honestly
No pattern of clicks changes the odds: the mines are placed before you click, by a shuffle of the 25 tiles from your seed pair. What you control is variance. One mine and a quick cash-out wins most rounds but pays little; 10 mines and 5 gems wins about once every 18 rounds and pays about 17.5x. Both lose 1% of your stake on average, and rakeback gives back 3.5% of that.
Want to check a round? Paste your seeds into the seed checker to see where the mines were.
FAQ
+What is the house edge on Stake Mines?
1%, as shown in the game information on Stake's Mines page (RTP 99%). It is the same whatever number of mines and gems you pick.
+How are Stake Mines multipliers calculated?
The multiplier is 0.99 divided by the chance of revealing that many gems without hitting a mine. With 3 mines, clearing all 22 gems has a 1 in 2,300 chance, so it pays 0.99 × 2,300 = 2,277x, which is the maximum Stake shows for 3 mines.
+What is the best number of mines on Stake?
None is better in the long run: every setting returns 99% on average. Fewer mines give small, frequent wins; more mines give rare, big ones. Pick the variance you are comfortable with.
+Can you predict where the mines are?
No. Mine positions come from Stake's provably fair system (a shuffle of the 25 tiles from your seeds). Mines predictor apps cannot know the server seed before the round. You can check past rounds with our seed checker.
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