Now, hear me out, but what if Minesweeper had a continuously tileable playfield? Like, what if the mine count numbers on the edges of the board actually wrapped around?

You know, like you got a number on the very right edge of the board, but it's also counting the mines on the very left edge of the board, and you can pan scroll the entire playfield around?

Just a random brainfart of a thought for the day..

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That would be toroidal geometry, and it opens up the question of other geometries, such as the Klein bottle.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Toroidal geometry? I'm not sure, but let me know if I'm wrong.

I was thinking more like being able to indefinitely pan around in 2D planar geometry. The top and bottom edges would be equally associated as well.

I'm not quite sure if we're on the same page, but I have to admit, if you put Minesweeper on a torus, I'd give it a try, but only on LSD or something.. 😂

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago

If you take a rectangle and identify (glue together) the left and right edge as well as the top and bottom edge, which seems to be what you’re suggesting, you get a torus.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, rather than showing a field, it had a cylinder or ball that you could rotate.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that would definitely be an interesting literal twist to the game!

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And all the accidental missclicks by rotating it <3 (idea is still fire tho)