# Little Hives: Mines — A calm logic puzzle in a hedge

> A calm logic puzzle in a hedge (iPhone/iPad app by Jose Betancur.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/little-hives-mines/id6821784523 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jose Betancur](https://appshunter.io/developer/713749067)
- Category: Games, Board, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-13
- Data updated: 2026-10-16

## What is Little Hives?

Little Hives is the classic mines puzzle moved into a garden. Every square is a bush, and some bushes hide a beehive. Prune every bush that has none, and leave the bees in peace.

No board ever needs a guess. Every hive can be worked out from the numbers.

HOW IT PLAYS
• Tap a bush to prune it. Hold to plant a flag where you think a hive is.
• Where a bush was, the lawn shows how many hives are in the eight squares around it.
• The first cut is always safe and always opens a clearing.
• Tap a number that has all its flags to prune everything else around it.

A GARDENER WHO KNOWS THE HEDGE
The gardener is a hedgehog with hedge shears. Stuck? Ask, for one jar of honey: it points at a square that is certain, shows the numbers that prove it and says why. It never looks inside a bush for you, and if one of your flags is wrong it says that first.

AS BIG AS YOUR SCREEN
Three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Expert. Beginner is the classic 9×9. The other two are cut to fit your screen, so nothing ever scrolls or gets cropped: bigger gardens on an iPad, comfortable ones on an iPhone. Best times are kept for each.

THINGS TO SPEND HONEY ON
Finish a garden and it comes up in flowers, with butterflies over it, and the bees leave you honey. Spend it in the gardener's shed on the four seasons and on things for the finished garden: a rabbit, a pond, a gnome, a fountain. Nothing in the shed helps to prune a board.

CALM BY DESIGN
• No ads.
• iPhone and iPad.
• Works offline.
• Your game is saved when you close the app.

Little Hives is free. If you enjoy it, you can leave honey for the developers' tea from the shed. It's optional, and the gardener says thanks with honey.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Honey for our tea | $2.99 | one-time |


## Is Little Hives safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Little Hives.

## Is Little Hives legit?

Little Hives: Mines appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Little Hives is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-14

No release notes.

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All apps by Jose Betancur: https://appshunter.io/developer/713749067

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