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Treasure Box - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Dec 29th 2005 at 8:00PM
Okay, let's take a break from the "games that aren't really games" for a day and check out Treasure Box. It's a Flash puzzle game of the hunt-and-click
variety. Think Samarost or Hapland, but with a
little red ball. Your goal is to figure out what to click on and when so as to guide the little red ball to the
treasure box. It's not the greatest challenge nor the longest game, but it's a fun little diversion with great, vaguely
Gilliam-esque artwork.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
