---
title: "Reveal puzzles: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/reveal"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-3
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-19
description: "Hidden-mine deduction puzzle rules, with a safe first click, a flood that opens empty cells in waves, flags, chording and hints that only show what logic proves."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/reveal/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Reveal puzzles: API

`@phaser-ae/reveal` — Hidden-mine deduction: a hidden field, a flood when you open an empty cell, and hints that are PROVABLE rather than guessed, as in Minesweeper.

## The pack

### `reveal`

```ts
function reveal(): Pack<{ reveal: RevealApi }>
```

The `reveal` pack. Pure logic, so it needs no backend and runs headless.

## Helpers

### `createMinefield`

```ts
function createMinefield(cfg: MinefieldConfig): Minefield
```

Creates a Minesweeper board from the config.

## Classes

### `Minefield`

```ts
class Minefield
```

A Minesweeper board with hidden state. Create one with createMinefield().

- `readonly cols: number` — The number of columns on the board.
- `readonly rows: number` — The number of rows on the board.
- `readonly mines: number` — The number of mines on the board.
- `state: 'playing' | 'won' | 'lost'` — The game state. 'playing' until a win or a loss.
- `constructor(cfg: MinefieldConfig)`
- `cell(x: number, y: number): CellView` — The player-visible view of a cell.
- `get minesLeft(): number` — Mines minus flags placed (may go negative).
- `reveal(x: number, y: number): RevealResult` — Reveal a cell. First reveal places mines (excluding the safe zone).
- `flag(x: number, y: number): void` — Flag → question → hidden cycle. Flags block reveal.
- `chord(x: number, y: number): RevealResult` — Chord: on a revealed number whose adjacent flags equal it, reveal the rest. A wrong flag here detonates.
- `hint(): { safe: XY[]; mines: XY[] }` — The covered cells the open numbers prove safe, and those they prove are mines, as `{ safe, mines }`, in board order; both empty before the first reveal. Every cell not yet revealed is covered, flagged and question-marked ones too: a flag is the player's guess, so the hint ignores it and proves from the numbers alone, and a flag the numbers prove wrong comes back in `safe`. Two rules, applied until neither proves more: a number whose proved mines equal it has its other covered neighbours safe; a number whose proved mines and unproved covered neighbours together equal it has those all mines.
- `step(): boolean` — Apply one `hint()` pass: flag every proved mine and open every proved-safe cell, leaving the player's flags and question marks as they are (a mark blocks a reveal, as it blocks a click). Before the first reveal it opens the centre cell. Returns false when it could not act or the game is over.
- `debugGrid(): string` — Returns the board as text: '.' hidden, 'F' flag, '*' mine, or the number. For tests.

## Types

### `CellState`

```ts
type CellState = 'hidden' | 'flagged' | 'question' | 'revealed'
```

The player-visible state of one cell.

### `CellView`

```ts
interface CellView
```

What the player can see of one cell. Returned by cell().

- `state: CellState` — The player-visible state of the cell.
- `number: number` — Adjacent mine count (0–8). Meaningful once revealed.
- `mine?: boolean` — True only after game end (loss reveals all).

### `MinefieldConfig`

```ts
interface MinefieldConfig
```

Configuration for createMinefield().

- `cols: number` — The number of columns on the board.
- `rows: number` — The number of rows on the board.
- `mines: number` — The number of mines. Must be less than cols × rows.
- `seed?: number` — The seed for mine placement. The same seed gives the same board. Default 1.
- `firstClickSafe?: 'cell' | 'area'` — `cell` = first click is never a mine; `area` = its 3×3 is mine-free (modern default).

### `RevealApi`

```ts
type RevealApi = typeof kit
```

`game.reveal` — every function and type this pack carries, as one namespace.

### `RevealResult`

```ts
interface RevealResult
```

A distance-ordered flood: `waves[0]!` is the clicked cell, `waves[n]!` are cells
n steps away — the presenter animates them as an expanding ripple.

- `waves: { cells: { at: XY; number: number }[] }[]` — The revealed cells, grouped by distance from the click.
- `detonated: XY | null` — The mine cell the click set off, or null.
- `state: 'playing' | 'won' | 'lost'` — The game state after the move.
- `reveal?: { mines: XY[]; wrongFlags: XY[] }` — All mines + wrong flags, populated on loss for the reveal-everything render.

### `XY`

```ts
interface XY
```

A grid cell position. `x` is the column and `y` is the row, from the top left.

- `x: number` — The column, from the left.
- `y: number` — The row, from the top.

---

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