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Minigames are small games in which players (or a team of players) set out to complete a certain objective. These games usually allow players to gain experience and/or items. They are identified with a red star icon on the world map. Minigames can be repeated, unlike quests or miniquests which can only be completed once. There are four free-to-play minigames, which are all notably PvP minigames: Emir's Arena, Clan Wars, Castle Wars, and Last Man Standing.

Players can teleport to minigames using the Minigame Teleport spell on any spellbook provided they meet the requirement for the selected minigame. This teleport has a 20 minute cooldown and cannot be cast from PvP worlds, the Wilderness, or Emir's Arena.

Grouping interface

The Grouping interface.

The Grouping interface can be found under the chat-channel tab. Select the desired minigame from the drop down menu and players will be entered into a chat channel to help you find other players. Players cannot be in two chat channels at the same time, so joining the minigame chat channel will automatically remove you from any channel you were previously in.

The Grouping interface can also teleport you to a minigame's location provided you meet the requirements to access it. This teleport shares the same locations and cooldown timer as the Minigame Teleport spell.

Minigames

Minigames fit into one of the following classifications.

Non-combat

Non-combat minigames do not involve the player taking damage or risking death as a part of the minigame itself. This means that players won't experience a death without external circumstances, like entering the area while poisoned.

Safe

Minigames with safe combat will see players fight monsters or other players, and if/when they die, they will respawn in a designated area in the minigame with all their items. Warning: Hardcore Group Ironmen will always lose hardcore status in PvM activities labelled as safe deaths.

Dangerous

Items will be moved to a grave or Item Retrieval Service upon death. Regular death mechanics will apply. You will have 15 minutes to get your items back from a grave after which they will be transferred to Death's Office. To get your items back you will have to pay a fee, but ironmen get a 50% discount. Dangerous deaths also imply Hardcore ironmen lose their status.

Combat minigames

These minigames involve the use of combat skills to fight players or monsters.

League region Minigame Minigame classification Description Rewards
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Barbarian Assault Safe A team of five fights waves of penance creatures and the penance queen. Honour Points, which is used to purchase various types of armour, minigame upgrades, or to gamble for other items.

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N/A Bounty Hunter Dangerous Fight other players assigned to you in the Wilderness. Emblems, which are used to purchase various weapon and cosmetic upgrades, Target teleport scrolls, Hunter's honours, Clue boxes, and Rune pouches.

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Kandarin Kandarin✓ Castle Wars Safe A competitive game of Capture the Flag in which two teams try to bring the opponent's flag back to their base. One of the four free-to-play minigames. Tickets, which are used to purchase cosmetic armour and weapon comparably up to adamant and other cosmetic equipment.

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Wilderness Wilderness✓ Clan Wars Safe Clan Wars allows members of two opposing Friends Chat to engage in player-versus-player combat against one another. One of the four free-to-play minigames. None
Desert Desert✓ Emir's Arena Safe Players duel each other, with the ability to set special rules. One of the four free-to-play minigames. Blighted wave sacks, blighted surge sacks, scrolls of imbuing

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Varlamore Varlamore✓ Fortis Colosseum Dangerous Players battle gladiators and creatures to prove their worth to Sol Heredit. Dizana's quiver, Sunfire fanatic armour, echo crystals, Tonalztics of Ralos, Smol heredit pet

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Karamja Karamja✓ Inferno Safe Players battle an onslaught of enemies, making their way to defeat TzKal-Zuk. Infernal cape, Jal-nib-rek pet.

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Kourend Kourend✓ Intelligence Gathering Dangerous Players locate and raid gang meetings across Great Kourend for intelligence to maintain order in the kingdom. Training manual
N/A Last Man Standing Safe Players fight for survival on an island with nothing but resources found on the island. One of the four free-to-play minigames. Points, used to purchase various weapons and upgrades, supplies, cosmetic variants, and teleport tablets.

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Wilderness Wilderness✓ Mage Arena Dangerous Battle Kolodion for the right to learn God spells. Kolodion cannot be fought again after defeating his fourth form, but the arena itself can still be used afterward. God capes, God staves, and god spells.
N/A Nightmare Zone Safe Partake in "dreams" to fight bosses previously defeated in quests. Herblore ingredients, runes, scroll of redirection, armour imbuing upgrades, and unique potions (only useable in "dreams").

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Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Pest Control Safe A team combat minigame that involves protecting a vulnerable Void Knight, while fending off waves of incoming monsters and taking down four portals. Void Knight equipment, herb packs, mineral packs, seed packs, and extra experience in combat skills.

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Misthalin Misthalin✓ Soul Wars Safe A minigame where two opposing teams compete against each other to gather soul fragments and offer them to the Soul Obelisk to weaken, and ultimately defeat, each other's Avatars through combat. Each game lasts 15 minutes. Zeal Tokens, Ectoplasmator, Soul cape, Spoils of war, Lil' creator.

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Morytania Morytania✓ Temple Trekking /
Burgh de Rott Ramble
Dangerous A game where you guide potential Myreque recruits from Paterdomus to Burgh de Rott (Burgh de Rott Ramble) or guide refugees from Burgh de Rott to Paterdomus (Temple Trekking), earning rewards in return. Pieces of the Lumberjack outfit and other resources such as: pure essence, bow string, silver bar, tarromin, harralander, toadflax, coal, iron ore, watermelon seeds, raw lobsters, and tome of experience.

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Karamja Karamja✓ TzHaar Fight Cave Safe Players fight alone against an army of TzHaar monsters. If they can defeat TzTok-Jad, they gain the sought-after fire cape. Fire cape and Tokkul

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Karamja Karamja✓ TzHaar Fight Pit Safe Players fight in a safe pit of combat in a free-for-all environment, last man standing gains a Tokkul reward. Tokkul

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Karamja Karamja✓ TzHaar-Ket-Rak's Challenges Safe Players face increasingly brutal challenges as TzHaar-Ket-Rak pits them against more and more JalTok-Jads with each new challenge. Tokkul

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Skilling minigames

These minigames focus on certain skills to achieve a goal.

Region Minigame Minigame classification Skill(s) Description
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Archery Competition Non-combat Ranged Earn Archery tickets and Ranged experience shooting at a target. Players may exchange tickets for items, such as rune arrows.
Fremennik Fremennik✓ Blast Furnace Non-combat 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.
Karamja Karamja✓ Brimhaven Agility Arena Dangerous Agility A Medium level Agility course for players. Pillars dispense tickets which can be traded in for rewards.
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Fishing Trawler Non-combat Fishing Players work together to keep a boat afloat while keeping nets fixed in order to catch as many fish as possible.
Desert Desert✓
Giants' Foundry Non-combat Smithing Players use their own metal to create weapons for giants.
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Gnome Ball Dangerous (players may take a small amount of damage that could result in death) 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.
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Gnome Restaurant Non-combat Cooking Players deliver food to customers gnomes within a time limit, gaining unique food rewards.
Desert Desert✓ Guardians of the Rift Non-combat Runecrafting, Mining, Crafting Assist The Great Guardian in closing a rift into the Abyss by supplying it with imbued essence while protecting it from the Abyssal creatures that come through the rift.
Morytania Morytania✓ Hallowed Sepulchre Dangerous (IRS) Agility, Thieving, Construction, Prayer Overcome various agility obstacles while looting coffins for Hallowed marks.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Impetuous Impulses Non-combat Hunter A minigame where implings are hunted and trapped in magical jars. Rewards vary from a chisel to dragon arrows.
Desert Desert✓ Mage Training Arena 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.
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓Misthalin Misthalin✓Kandarin Kandarin✓Kourend Kourend✓ Mahogany Homes Non-combat Construction Take on tasks to repair and build furniture for clients.
Varlamore Varlamore✓ Mastering Mixology Non-combat Herblore Refine herbs into its basic elements to brew potions for order.
Kourend Kourend✓ Mess Non-combat Cooking Cook food to serve to soldiers of Shayzien.
Desert Desert✓ Pyramid Plunder Dangerous Thieving Advance through 8 rooms, avoiding traps, and defending yourself from the pyramid's inhabitants in an attempt to loot treasure.
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Rogues' Den Non-combat Agility, Thieving Players show their deft abilities as they navigate this tricky maze filled with traps and obstacles. Depending on success, players can earn fair amounts of Agility and Thieving experience, as well as rogue equipment, displaying their experienced skills.
Desert Desert✓ Sorceress's Garden Non-combat Thieving, Farming Players attempt to sneak around watchful elementals guarding their gardens to pick Sq'irk fruits or herbs.
Kourend Kourend✓ Stealing artefacts Non-combat Thieving Players are instructed to retrieve an item for Captain Khaled, avoiding guards on the way back.
Kourend Kourend✓ Tithe Farm Non-combat Farming The minigame revolves around intensively planting special seeds into farming patches, tending them until harvest, and depositing the produce into sacks in order to earn points.
Morytania Morytania✓ Trouble Brewing Safe Agility, Cooking, Crafting, Firemaking, Fletching, Hunter, and Strength. 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.
Varlamore Varlamore✓ Vale Totems Non-combat Fletching Players earn vale offerings and vale research points by building, carving, and decorating totems around the valley.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Volcanic Mine Dangerous (IRS) Mining Mining as many ore fragments as possible before the volcano eventually erupts. Note: Make sure to keep at least 150 numulite for item retrieval.

Combat and skilling minigames

These minigames feature both combat and the use of skills.

Region Minigame Minigame classification Skill(s) Description
Morytania Morytania✓ Shades of Mort'ton Dangerous Crafting, Firemaking, Prayer, 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.
Karamja Karamja✓ Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup 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.
Tirannwn Tirannwn✓ The Gauntlet Dangerous (But no items are brought in) Fishing, Mining, Cooking, Woodcutting, Herblore, Smithing, Crafting, and combat. The player is sent into a dungeon without any equipment or resources and must use everything they find in the dungeon in order to survive a fight against the Crystalline Hunllef.
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Warriors' Guild Dangerous (Some but not all activities) Melee Various different minigames allow the player to train melee skills and earn warrior guild tokens, which can be used to enter the Cyclops chambers, where cyclopes can be killed for defenders.

Miscellaneous

Other minigames that can be played and do not fit into the above categories.

Region Minigame Minigame Classification Skill(s) Description
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Burthorpe Games Room Non-combat N/A A room where players can compete in various board games. Also available at the Games Zone.
Misthalin Misthalin✓Kandarin Kandarin✓Tirannwn Tirannwn✓ Forestry Non-combat Woodcutting, Thieving, Construction, Fletching, Farming, and Hunter Players can earn anima-infused bark whilst Woodcutting by participating in any of the nine randomly spawned minigames and events nearby.
Fremennik Fremennik✓Misthalin Misthalin✓Kandarin Kandarin✓Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Rat Pits Dangerous to the life of the cat, not to the life of the player N/A Players can train their cats to be a wily cat in these arenas of battle between cats and mice.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Tears of Guthix Non-combat Lowest levelled skill Collect the tears of the god of balance in a sacred cave guarded by his faithful Guardian of Guthix, Juna. The tears improve a player's experience in their lowest skill. You can only do this minigame once a week.

Minigame-like

The following activities are not officially classed as minigames, however, their gameplay and mechanics are very comparable to existing minigames.

Minigame-like Bosses

Region Activity Activity Classification Description
Morytania Morytania✓ Barrows Dangerous Players help to put to rest the six phantoms of the Barrows brothers, while attempting to rob valuable items from the crypts.
Varlamore Varlamore✓ Moons of Peril Dangerous Players help Eyatlalli to distract the three Moons of Peril, while being rewarded for their efforts.
Tirannwn Tirannwn✓ Zalcano Dangerous Use Mining, Smithing, and Runecraft to defeat an ancient zamorakian general who is cursed to slowly turn into stone.
Kourend Kourend✓ Wintertodt Dangerous Use Firemaking and Fletching to assist the Order of the Sacred Flame with subduing an ancient storm of perpetual winter and unfathomable cold.
Desert Desert✓ Tempoross Non-combat Use Fishing and Cooking to help the Spirit anglers subdue an ancient spirit of the sea, who is causing severe storms in the area.

Minigame-like activities

Region Activity Activity Classification Description
Kourend Kourend✓ Blast Mine Dangerous The player uses dynamite to mine for ores, allowing for high-level ores to be attained at lower levels.
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Camdozaal Vault Non-combat The player navigate the vault to find lockboxes of increasing value.
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Chompy bird hunting Dangerous Lure and kill chompies to obtain cosmetic hats.
Kandarin Kandarin✓ Creature Creation Dangerous Players use various items to animate monsters which drop high numbers of Herblore secondary ingredients, raw foods, and feathers.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Dorgesh-Kaan market trading Non-combat Sell "exotic" surface food to Dorgeshuun gourmets for coins.
Fremennik Fremennik✓ Keldagrim tasks Non-combat Players complete tasks assigned by dwarves for coins.
Fremennik Fremennik✓ Managing Miscellania Non-combat Manage labourers on the islands of Miscellania and Etceteria whilst maintaining favour and reap rewards.
Kourend Kourend✓ Shayzien Combat Ring Dangerous Challenge soldiers of Shayzien in a melee match to obtain Shayzien armour.
Asgarnia Asgarnia✓ Sled Racing Non-combat Ride a sled down an icy timed course in Scrubfoot's cave.
Varlamore Varlamore✓ Stealing valuables Dangerous Pickpocket wealthy citizens for house keys to burgle their houses for valuables.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Underwater Agility and Thieving Non-combat Players navigate underwater obstacles to obtain Mermaid's tears and Glistening tears that can be traded in to Mairin for experience and rewards.
Misthalin Misthalin✓ Wise Old Man tasks Dangerous Players complete tasks from the Wise Old Man for Prayer experience or items.
Morytania Morytania✓ Werewolf Skullball Non-combat Kick a human skull through goals to earn agility experience.

Trivia

  • The Giants' Foundry is the only minigame that is not denoted on the world map with a minigame map icon. Despite this, the collection log entry for the Giants' Foundry is located under the Minigames section.

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