Gaming observation and survey:

[sirswatch@cupoftea.social]

@Sobtanian I’m right-handed but go left first. I think it stems from the knowledge that in a maze, if you go left all the time you’ll eventually find your way out.

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@SirSwatch does that actually work?

I’ve only done a couple of IRL mazes and got very stuck; on was when my wife was 2 weeks overdue with our youngest son, I was convinced she was going to go into labour in this maze in the middle of nowhere

[sirswatch@cupoftea.social]

@Sobtanian It does indeed. I was in a maze with my son when he was young, so I tried it out. It makes you travel through most of the maze, but it does work.

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@SirSwatch wow cool! If only I knew back then

[thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden]

@Sobtanian Always left! And I'm right handed so...idk. But left just feels right, no pun intended

[kateminervaharris@gardengate.earth]

@Sobtanian I suspect that left is a popular choice for people who speak a left to right language because we're used to things starting on the left.

[arcadia@mindly.social]

@Sobtanian Right-handed and left turns, but I've always thought of it as moving counterclockwise/widdershins

[tryllesokker@helvede.net]

@Sobtanian I think it has to do with reading direction, too.

I often choose the left menu (because it's the first I read and I wanna move along) but in a maze, I go right first. I think because of the idea of sticking out your hand and following the wall will take you everywhere in any maze without islands, and I'm right handed so that's how I visualise it.

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@Tryllesokker very interesting as @SirSwatch tells me he always goes left because of mazes, in that you will always escape the maze if you stick to the left.

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@arcadia haha makes sense!

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@KateMinervaHarris yeah I can see that but I wonder if it’s to do with the language of the game, so even if you’re Arabic (like me, we read right to left) I play games in English so perhaps we go left first because of that, rather than our mother tongue.

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@thegiddystitcher terrible.

BLOCKED

[thegiddystitcher@sunny.garden]

@Sobtanian NOT AGAIN

[sobtanian@mstdn.games]

@thegiddystitcher have I told you I’ve got a theory that some people just like a good BLOCKING now and then?

It’s the only explanation.

🤭

[tryllesokker@helvede.net]

@Sobtanian @SirSwatch It's just a matter of always sticking to one side! Provided that there are no islands inside the maze that aren't connected to the outer walls.

[sirswatch@cupoftea.social]

@Tryllesokker @Sobtanian Ahh, interesting. So either always left or right works. I thought I’d read many years ago that it was left, so I’ve always done that.
It was ingrained in me so much that it’s now affected what I do in other things, like choosing a path in video games! 🤪