Minigames

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"Activity" redirects here. For the bar that tracks a player's participation in some activities, see Activity bar.

Not to be confused with Distractions and Diversions.

Current rotation

The Great Orb ProjectNow!

Flash Powder Factory21 Apr

Castle Wars24 Apr

Stealing Creation27 Apr

Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza30 Apr

Heist3 May

Mobilising Armies6 May

Barbarian Assault9 May

Conquest12 May

Fist of Guthix15 May

Castle Wars18 May

Pest Control21 May

Soul Wars24 May

Fishing Trawler27 May

The Great Orb Project30 May

Flash Powder Factory2 Jun

Stealing Creation5 Jun

Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza8 Jun

Heist11 Jun

Trouble Brewing14 Jun

Castle Wars17 Jun

Pest Control20 Jun

Soul Wars23 Jun

Fist of Guthix26 Jun

Barbarian Assault29 Jun

Conquest2 Jul

Fishing Trawler5 Jul

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Minigames (formerly known as Activities) are small games in which a player (or players) set out to complete a certain objective. These games sometimes allow players to gain experience and items. They are identified with a red star icon on the map. Minigames can be repeated, unlike quests or miniquests which can only be completed once.

All minigames used to require membership, although now five are available to free-to-play players: Clan Wars, Duel Arena, Fist of Guthix, The Great Orb Project, and Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza.

Most minigames allow players to earn thaler, a special currency that can be spent on various minigame-related rewards.

Safe/dangerous

Minigames are classified as either Safe or Dangerous depending on whether items are or are not kept on death. Some minigames may be classified as Unsafe, meaning death is not likely, but items would still be lost as in Dangerous minigames.

Safe

There are two types of safe minigame: safe combat, and no combat. Minigames with safe combat will see players fight monsters or other players, and should they die they will respawn in a designated area in the minigame with all their items. Minigames with no combat have no monsters or player-versus-player areas, so players cannot be killed. However, if players are poisoned outside the minigame area, and then do not cure themselves when entering the area, they can still die from the poison. In such cases, players will receive a gravestone. On the wiki, most safe minigames will show a Safe banner at the top of the page, like this:

This is a safe activity. If you die, you will not lose any of your items.

Dangerous

Items will be lost upon death, and depending on the minigame, you may or may not get a gravestone. On the wiki, most dangerous minigames will show a banner at the top of the page like the one below:

This is a dangerous activity. If you die, you will lose your items and will need to reclaim them from Death or your grave.

Unsafe

Unsafe minigames either cannot cause death directly, or can only cause very minimal amounts of damage. This means that death is highly unlikely while playing these minigames. Usually, death during an unsafe minigame would only be caused by means outside of the minigame itself, such as accidentally engaging in combat which is not meant to be a part of the minigame. However, if death occurs while playing an unsafe minigame, items will be lost upon death, the same as playing a dangerous minigame. On the wiki, unsafe minigames will show this banner at the top of the page:

Death during this activity is not safe. While this activity is not inherently dangerous, should you die by other means you will still lose your items and will need to reclaim them from Death or your grave.

Combat

These minigames involve the use of combat skills to fight players or monsters. Note: _(m) stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Description
	Barbarian Assault (m)	Safe This is a safe activity. If you die, you will not lose any of your items.	A team of five, fight 10 waves of penance creatures and the Penance queen, or the Penance King on hard mode.
	Barrows (m)	Dangerous	Fight the six - eight Barrows Brothers to earn Barrows equipment.
	Bounty Hunter (m)	Dangerous	Defeat your targeted opponent and loot their equipment. Earn and upgrade Bounty emblems to cash in for various rewards.
	Burgh de Rott Ramble (m) (reverse route of Temple Trekking)	Dangerous	A game where you guide potential Myreque recruits from Paterdomus to Burgh de Rott. Note: If players die during this minigame, their gravestone will be placed outside of Paterdomus.
	Castle Wars (m)	Safe	A competitive game of Capture the Flag in which two teams try to bring the opponent's flag back to their base.
	Clan Wars	Depends on setting	Gather a clan and battle against one another. One of the seven free play minigames. Note: If a player dies in a 'Dangerous' scenario during this minigame, they will drop all of their items (unless Protect Item is active, in which case they keep the most valuable item). Players do not get a gravestone if they die in a 'Dangerous' scenario, and all dropped items are lost.
	Conquest (m)	Safe, although items can be lost if the player chooses to stake.	Outflank and outmaneuver your opponent on a Void Knight battlefield.
	Deathmatch (m)	Safe	Fight your opponents to death with the help of power ups and super power ups.
	Dominion Tower (m)	Safe	Fight previously defeated foes and advance upward through the tower to gain Dominion Factor.
	Duel Arena	Safe, although items can be lost if the player chooses to stake.	Players duel each other, with the ability to set special rules. One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Fight Cauldron (m)	Safe	Players fight alone against many waves of TokHaar monsters. Each monster killed will drop Obsidian shards which can be made into Obsidian bars and Obsidian armour.
	Fight Kiln (m)	Safe	Players fight alone against an army of TokHaar monsters. If they can defeat Har-Aken, they can choose a reward of either the TokHaar-Kal cape or an uncut onyx.
	Fist of Guthix	Safe	A tactical one-on-one game with two rounds, in which one player collects charges with a magical stone while the other is trying to hunt them down. In the second round, the players switch sides. One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Mage Arena	Dangerous	Battle Kolodion for the right to learn God spells. Kolodion cannot be refought after defeating his fourth form, but the arena itself can still be used afterwards.One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Mobilising Armies (m)	Safe	Control an army and defeat opponents in RuneScape's real-time strategy game.
	Pest Control (m)	Safe	A team combat minigame which involves protecting a vulnerable Void Knight, while fending off against waves of incoming monsters and taking down four portals.
	Soul Wars (m)	Safe	PvP team-based Slayer minigame where teams compete to kill the opponents avatar, with self-chosen rewards gained upon victory.
	Shattered Worlds (m)	Safe	Travel through worlds in a race against the clock while defeating enemies that increase in difficulty from world to world.
	Temple Trekking (m) (reverse route of Burgh de Rott Ramble)	Dangerous	A game where players have to guide refugees from Burgh de Rott to Paterdomus for rewards. Note: If players die during this minigame, their gravestone will be placed by the refugees in Burgh de Rott.
	TzHaar Fight Cave (m)	Safe	Players fight alone against an army of TzHaar monsters. If they can defeat TzTok-Jad, they gain the sought-after fire cape. Tokkul is also awarded.
	TzHaar Fight Pit (m)	Safe	Players fight in a safe pit of combat in a free-for-all environment, last man standing gains a tokkul reward.

Skilling

These minigames focus on certain skills to achieve a goal. Note: _(m) stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Skill(s)	Description
	All Fired Up (m)	Dangerous	Firemaking	Players must light beacons spread along the Wilderness edge. Each beacon has a specific Firemaking requirement, up to level 92. Completion of the quest All Fired Up is required.
	Blast Furnace (m)	Unsafe	Smithing, Strength, Agility, Crafting	Players work together to keep the furnace running. The furnace halves the amount of coal needed to produce a bar when smelting.
	Brimhaven Agility Arena (m)	Dangerous	Agility	A medium-level Agility course for players. Pillars dispense tickets which can be traded in for rewards.
	Fishing Trawler (m)	Safe	Fishing	Players work together to keep a trawler afloat while keeping nets fixed in order to catch as many fish as possible.
	Flash Powder Factory (m)	Safe	Agility, Thieving	A minigame that uses Agility, Thieving and Herblore, requiring players to collect the reagents for making flash powder and take them to the powder making machines, while traversing obstacles and pickpocketing other players (or being pickpocketed themselves). Reward points from the game can be swapped for experience or parts of the factory outfit.
	Gnome Ball (m)	Unsafe	Agility, Ranged	A minigame where players try to pass and charge with a small ball towards a hoop to score a goal, while the defending gnomes attempt to tackle them.
	Gnome Restaurant (m)	Unsafe	Cooking	Players deliver food to customers gnomes within a time limit, gaining unique food rewards.
	Great Orb Project	Safe	Runecrafting	Two teams compete to collect orbs while preventing the other team from collecting theirs. Winners of each round gain Runecrafting rewards. One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Impetuous Impulses (m)	Safe	Hunter	A minigame where implings are hunted and trapped in magical jars. Rewards vary from a chisel to pieces of dragon arrows to Royal clothing.
	Mage Training Arena (m)	Safe	Magic	A minigame composed of four separate "sub-minigames". The rewards are pizazz points, exchangeable for abilities such as the Bones to Peaches spell, or items such as runes or infinity robes.
	Pyramid Plunder (m)	Dangerous	Thieving	Advance through 8 rooms, avoiding traps, and defending yourself from the pyramid's inhabitants in an attempt to loot treasure.
	Ranging minigame (m)	Safe	Ranging	A way to train Ranged which can be profitable. Players may exchange tickets earned as rewards for items, such as rune arrows.
	Shifting Tombs (m)	Unsafe	Dungeoneering, Agility, Thieving, Construction, Crafting, Runecrafting, Prayer, Divination	Gain experience in skills of your choosing by opening sarcophagi, looting treasure chests and cleansing corruption.
	Sorceress's Garden (m)	Safe	Thieving, Farming	Players attempt to sneak around watchful elementals guarding their gardens to pick Sq'irk fruits or herbs.
	Trouble Brewing (m)	Safe	Multiple skills	Two teams compete as each try to brew the most bottles of 'rum'. Experience in a variety of skills can be earned for performing the many tasks needed in the process of 'rum' production.
	Vinesweeper (m)	Safe	Farming	A minesweeper-like game where players are rewarded with farming experience or seeds.

Combat and skilling

These minigames feature both combat and the use of skills. All minigames in this section are members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Skill(s)	Description
	Shades of Mort'ton (m)	Dangerous	Crafting, Firemaking, and combat.	Build up a temple and defend it from attacking shades, and venture into the shady catacombs beneath Mort'ton, reaping the monetary gains.
	Stealing Creation (m)	Safe	All skills except Farming, Slayer, Firemaking, Dungeoneering, and Divination.	A team-based minigame where teams compete for the most points. Players make and use armour and weaponry to engage in combat, or gain further points through item creation and refinement.
	Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup (m)	Dangerous	Woodcutting and combat	Players help clean up the village of Tai Bwo Wannai, while encountering monsters, earning the village currency of trading sticks as reward.

Miscellaneous

Other minigames that can be played and do not fit into the above categories. Note: _(m) stands for members only.

Icon	Name	Classification	Description
	Burthorpe Games Room	Safe	A room where players can compete in various board games.One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza	Safe	A maze where players have to survive as long as possible, running between two safe zones. Any player who fails is turned into a gorilla.One of the seven free-to-play minigames.
	Heist (m)	Safe	A team of robbers try to secure loot undetected while another team of guards attempt to uncover and arrest the robbers before time runs out.
	Player-owned port (m)	Safe	Players manage the day-to-day affairs of their own fleet of ships, to explore the Wushanko Isles for exotic items and rewards. To participate in this minigame, at least level 90 is required in any of Construction, Cooking, Hunter, Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, Thieving, Dungeoneering, Divination or Agility.
	Rogue Trader (m)	Unsafe	Players barter with Ali Morrisane. The rewards include "cheap" runes, clothes, and blackjacks.

See also

• Distractions and Diversions
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Minigames
• Grand Exchange Market Watch/Combat minigames

Trivia

• Minigames were renamed activities in March 2010. However, Jagex slowly began to call them minigames again throughout 2011 and as such they are called minigames again.
• An update in January 2012 caused the death mechanic of the overworld to spill over into minigames, and as a result many players lost millions of gold pieces in equipment when they died in "safe" minigames, respawned at their default points outside the minigames, and were unable to reenter the minigame to retrieve their equipment from their gravestones. As Jagex did not agree to a rollback, this is the single most damaging glitch in minigames in all of RuneScape's history.