Gleason's Gielinor Guide

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 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.

	Minigame classification	Description	Rewards
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. See: main article
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. See: main article
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. See: main article
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
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 See: main article
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 See: main article
Inferno	Safe	Players battle an onslaught of enemies, making their way to defeat TzKal-Zuk.	Infernal cape, Jal-Nib-Rek pet. See: main article
Intelligence Gathering	Dangerous	Players locate and raid gang meetings across Great Kourend for intelligence to maintain order in the kingdom.	Training manual
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. See: main article
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.
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"). See: main article
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. See: main article
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. See: main article
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. See: main article
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 See: main article
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 See: main article
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 See: main article

Skilling minigames

These minigames focus on certain skills to achieve a goal.

	Minigame classification	Skill(s)	Description
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.
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.
Brimhaven Agility Arena	Dangerous	Agility	A Medium level Agility course for players. Pillars dispense tickets which can be traded in for rewards.
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.
Giants' Foundry	Non-combat	Smithing	Players use their own metal to create weapons for giants.
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.
Gnome Restaurant	Non-combat	Cooking	Players deliver food to customers gnomes within a time limit, gaining unique food rewards.
Golem crafting	Non-combat	Crafting	Players help the people of Auchrie by crafting, powering, and clothing golems made from sunstone, a resource unique to Wyrmscraig.
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.
Hallowed Sepulchre	Dangerous (IRS)	Agility, Thieving, Construction, Prayer	Overcome various agility obstacles while looting coffins for Hallowed marks.
Impetuous Impulses	Non-combat	Hunter	A minigame where implings are hunted and trapped in magical jars. Rewards vary from a chisel to dragon arrows.
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.
Mahogany Homes	Non-combat	Construction	Take on tasks to repair and build furniture for clients.
Mastering Mixology	Non-combat	Herblore	Refine herbs into its basic elements to brew potions for order.
Mess	Non-combat	Cooking	Cook food to serve to soldiers of Shayzien.
Pyramid Plunder	Dangerous	Thieving	Advance through 8 rooms, avoiding traps, and defending yourself from the pyramid's inhabitants in an attempt to loot treasure.
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.
Sorceress's Garden	Non-combat	Thieving, Farming	Players attempt to sneak around watchful elementals guarding their gardens to pick Sq'irk fruits or herbs.
Stealing artefacts	Non-combat	Thieving	Players are instructed to retrieve an item for Captain Khaled, avoiding guards on the way back.
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.
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.
Vale Totems	Non-combat	Fletching	Players earn vale offerings and vale research points by building, carving, and decorating totems around the valley.
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.

	Minigame classification	Skill(s)	Description
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.
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.
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.
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.

	Minigame Classification	Skill(s)	Description
Barracuda Trials	Non-combat	Sailing	Navigate a skiff through timed obstacle courses at sea, completing trial-specific objectives to earn Sailing experience and progress through increasingly difficult ranks.
Burthorpe Games Room	Non-combat	N/A	A room where players can compete in various board games. Also available at the Games Zone.
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.
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.
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

	Activity Classification	Description
Barrows	Dangerous	Players help to put to rest the six phantoms of the Barrows brothers, while attempting to rob valuable items from the crypts.
Moons of Peril	Dangerous	Players help Eyatlalli to distract the three Moons of Peril, while being rewarded for their efforts.
Zalcano	Dangerous	Use Mining, Smithing, and Runecraft to defeat an ancient zamorakian general who is cursed to slowly turn into stone.
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.
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

	Activity Classification	Description
Aldarin Vineyard	Non-combat	Help the Aldarin vineyard foreman by collecting ripe grapes to fill a grape barrel, then return it for a reward of noted grapes.
Arceuus Library	Non-combat	Complete book requests for library patrons by searching the Arceuus Library for specific texts, earning books of arcane knowledge that grant Magic or Runecraft experience.
Blast Mine	Dangerous	The player uses dynamite to mine for ores, allowing for high-level ores to be attained at lower levels.
Camdozaal Vault	Non-combat	The player navigate the vault to find lockboxes of increasing value.
Chompy bird hunting	Dangerous	Lure and kill chompies to obtain cosmetic hats.
Creature Creation	Dangerous	Players use various items to animate monsters which drop high numbers of Herblore secondary ingredients, raw foods, and feathers.
Dorgesh-Kaan market trading	Non-combat	Sell "exotic" surface food to Dorgeshuun gourmets for coins.
Keldagrim tasks	Non-combat	Players complete tasks assigned by dwarves for coins.
Managing Miscellania	Non-combat	Manage labourers on the islands of Miscellania and Etceteria whilst maintaining favour and reap rewards.
Shayzien Combat Ring	Dangerous	Challenge soldiers of Shayzien in a melee match to obtain Shayzien armour.
Sled Racing	Non-combat	Ride a sled down an icy timed course in Scrubfoot's cave.
Stealing valuables	Dangerous	Pickpocket wealthy citizens for house keys to burgle their houses for valuables.
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.
Wise Old Man tasks	Dangerous	Players complete tasks from the Wise Old Man for Prayer experience or items.
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.