Remember clicking every square and praying you would not hit a bomb? A builder named carlos_silva94 has turned that nail-biting nostalgia into brick form with Minesweeper, a LEGO® tribute to one of the most-played (and most-quietly-cursed-at) computer games ever made. It has 3,011 supporters on LEGO® Ideas and it is still gathering more.

The build recreates the whole familiar interface. You get a textured grid of covered and uncovered tiles, the little numbers that warn you how many mines lurk nearby, the classic red digital displays for your timer and mine count, and yes, that gloriously smug yellow smiley face grinning down from the top. Every element that made the game so weirdly addictive shows up here in plastic.

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Here is the part that made us grin. Because the tiles can be swapped around, you can build your very own puzzle layouts and challenge a friend to clear the board without setting off a mine. Ever wanted a game you could physically redesign between rounds? This one hands you the flags and lets you decide where the danger hides.

The shape works in your favour too. That flat, rectangular design makes Minesweeper a natural desk toy or a wall-mounted piece of pixel art for your office or gaming room. It celebrates a slice of 90s and 00s computing history that pretty much anyone who touched a PC will instantly recognise.

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The idea grew from a personal memory. carlos_silva94 started using a computer during the Minesweeper era, and this project is a love note to those early clicking sessions. If it triggers a wave of nostalgia for you (and 122 commenters clearly agree), the project needs 10,000 supporters to reach the review stage.

So, will you help defuse this one to the finish line, or leave it buried? The choice, fellow builder, is entirely yours.