Classic minesweeper measures you with a stopwatch. Bean Boom's Egg Mode measures you with a score — and scoring well is a different skill from clearing fast. This guide dissects the actual scoring system: what earns points, what multiplies them, and the play patterns that maximize both. Everything here reflects the live game mechanics.

The Four Ways to Earn Points

Every point in Egg Mode comes from revealing cells — but not all reveals are priced equally:

Event	Base points	Notes
Normal reveal	10 × multiplier per cell	Your bread and butter
Great Opening	20 × multiplier per cell	First reveal of the game flooding 8+ cells — click center for a shot at it
Chord (perfect)	15 × multiplier per cell, ×2 if 4+ cells	Double the rate when you chord four or more cells at once
Bean Boom blast	25 × multiplier per cell	The premium event — triggered by correctly flagging a mine

Three levers should jump out at you: blasts are worth 2.5× a normal reveal per cell, big chords are worth 3×, and every event's value scales with your combo multiplier — which means when and how you reveal matters as much as how much.

Combo: The 3-Second Clock

Every safe reveal adds to your combo count. The multiplier formula:

The catch is the window: if more than 3 seconds pass between safe reveals, the combo resets to zero — and FEVER with it. Three seconds is generous for clicking but brutal for thinking. If you pause to grind out a deduction for ten seconds, you restart your multiplier from scratch.

Practical consequences:

• Bank your deductions. Work out the next 4–5 moves mentally, then execute them in a burst instead of alternating think-click-think-click.
• Flood-fills are combo gold. A blank-region cascade adds dozens of cells to your combo in one instant, at zero thinking cost.
• Don't stall on 50/50s. Stand around agonizing and the clock quietly deletes your multiplier. Take the guess; a live guess keeps the engine running.

Bean Boom Blasts: Chain the Explosions

The signature mechanic. When you flag a cell that truly contains a mine, it detonates, revealing all safe cells within a square radius around it — at the premium 25-point rate, all multiplied by your current combo.

Two mechanics make blasts scale:

1. Rising tiers. The 1st detonation of a game blasts a small radius; each subsequent detonation blasts wider, up to a cap of tier 4. Your 5th flag of the game clears dramatically more territory than your 1st.
2. Cascades. If a blast radius reaches another correctly flagged mine, that mine detonates too — same instant, same combo window, chained blasts. Every cascade link increments the tier ladder, so chains grow explosively.

FEVER: The 4x Ceiling

When your combo reaches 20, FEVER activates. Two effects:

• The multiplier cap rises from 3.0× to 4.0× (combo 30 caps out).
• Blast radii grow by one cell — bigger blasts, more cascades, more combo. FEVER feeds itself.

FEVER resets with your combo, so the whole scoring game is really: reach combo 20 quickly, then never let the clock hit 3 seconds of silence. A player who holds FEVER for half the board routinely outscores a player who solves faster but thinks in long pauses.

Settlement: Where Your Raw Score Gets Finalized

When you win, the game doesn't just bank your running total. Two final adjustments apply:

Read that again if you play Easy for score: the 0.6 coefficient claws back 40% of everything you earned. Easy is for learning; Medium and Hard are where serious scores live.

Rank Thresholds

Difficulty	S rank	A rank	B rank
Easy	4,000	2,000	800
Medium	12,000	6,000	2,500
Hard	30,000	15,000	6,000

A Score-Maximizing Play Pattern

1. Open center — the Great Opening bonus (20× per cell) is only available on your first reveal, and only if it floods 8+ cells.
2. Build to 20 fast. Ride a flood-fill or an early blast into FEVER before the board gets thinky.
3. Hold FEVER with banked deductions. Plan bursts of 4+ moves; execute without pauses.
4. Save flag clusters for FEVER. A cascade chain inside FEVER at 4.0× is the single highest-earning moment the game offers. If a cluster is safely resolvable later, resolve it later.
5. Chord big. 4+ cell chords earn double rate; they also feed the combo in bulk.
6. Finish fast. The 1.0–2.0× time bonus is the last multiplier; every second under par is free score.
7. Never leave correct flags unplaced — at settlement each one is worth 50 points before multipliers.

Frequently Asked Questions