🎨 Color Sweeper
A real, live 1v1 minesweeper duel against a random opponent — with random helpers in your corner. Big board, two colors of hidden mines, hearts on the line, buzzers for chaos. Made to break the ice, not to start a fight.
How do you want to join?
Play
You're one of the two duelists. You pick cells, dodge your own hidden mines, and try to end with more hearts than your opponent.
Help
You're randomly paired onto a player's side to coach them during their talk window. You can't touch the board — just advise, and hit the buzzers. This is also the button that queues you as a helper — you'll drop straight into a match already in progress if one has an open seat, so you're never stuck waiting for a brand-new match to form.
Looking for a match…
Hang tight — a match starts the moment another real player is ready.
About Color Sweeper
Color Sweeper is the rebrand of what used to be Chat Zone — same address, completely different game. Instead of a single-player round against an AI, it's now a live 1-vs-1 duel between two real, randomly matched people, with random helpers able to join either side to coach (not play) and pile on with reaction buzzers. It was built as a lighthearted, structured way for two strangers to spend twenty minutes together — hence the consent step, the "no text chat" design (you connect live on video and voice instead, peer-to-peer, alongside reactions and buzzers), and the fact that literally nothing about a match is kept once it ends.
Frequently asked questions
What happened to Chat Zone and Ricardo?
Retired. Color Sweeper keeps the two-color minesweeper idea but replaces the AI opponent with a real matched player, adds helpers, buzzers with a bigger reaction, a much bigger board, and removes text chat entirely.
What exactly do helpers do?
Helpers are randomly assigned to one player's side. At the start of every turn there's a 10-second window where that side's helpers can coach their player out loud on what to pick; outside that window they're just watching. Helpers can also hit any of the three buzzers any time, but they can never touch the board themselves.
What if nobody else is online?
You'll see a waiting room with a live count of who else is queued, and you can start an instant solo practice round against a bot at any time instead of waiting — same board, same rules, no need for a second person.
Is anything about my match saved?
No. There's no account, no match history, and no admin view of who played whom. The moment a match ends (or you leave), the server's copy of that match is deleted for good.
Is video or voice chat on right now?
Yes — once you're matched, your camera and mic connect directly to the other participants (peer-to-peer, not through our servers). If you'd rather not show your face, you can turn your camera or mic off any time with the buttons in the match screen, and the game stays fully playable either way. Connections use standard STUN discovery only, so on rare, very restrictive networks a video/audio connection might not establish — the game itself is unaffected.