Perhaps one of the best games in Neopets, for most it takes a good amount of time to get into it but you can also get the trick very quick. Even if I dont have more than 2 years playing it I dont have to put almost any effort to get the 3000 np per day.
The first thing that you have to now: the mines dont control you, you control the mines, forget the idea of running from then or trying to make them explode. The first will only make your live spam very very short and with the second, well is better to have them on your sight than appearing from nowhere, sometimes just in front of you, dont tease luck.
That is the only thing you need to now to get the np, especially with the a LOT easier new version.
But if you want a trophy, well thats another thing, first you need, patience, to be honest one I dont have. You have to do all that I said before plus using the whirlpools. First they can be your best friend or your worse enemy. I have been on 5900 points and one just pops in front of me without any chance of escaping. But if you are already playing for almost an hour (I make 1000 in about 10 minutes, that means that to make the 14000, to get to 1 place youll need 2 hours and 20 minutes aprox.) and one appears you can let it suck all the mines, put the boat on one corner far away from the dubloon and rest for a while, it can get really overwhelming after a while.
And as I said before: patience, a lot of patience. Ad if you get to bored see if you can break your record with the clock, 1000 points in les than 10 min and things like that.
Good luck. – hotuko_s