Gamefinds: Primesweeper

We love it when we find weird and unique indie games to tell you all about! Our alien friends to the left herald these occasions.

Primesweeper is a recreation of Minesweeper, but with two changes:

  • You can’t mark squares where you think there are mines. This isn’t as bad as you’d think it would be, partly because…
  • All the spaces have three digit numbers on them, and the mines are hidden by the spaces with prime numbers.

Don’t let the math terms scare you, it’s not as hard as you’d think it would be, at least if you know a trick to determining divisibility by 3: the sums of the digits of all numbers that add up to 3 are themselves divisible by 3.

Primesweeper is from vole.wtf, created and filled with things made by Metafilter member malevolent, who has made many a free wonderment and entertainthing to enjoy. If you enjoy Primesweeper (or even if you don’t), I’m sure you’ll find something else fun on their website.