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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzles - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Mar 27th 2006 at 9:00AM
If you
really, really want to kill some time today (and possibly the rest of your week), don't miss Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, a bundle of
24 open source, cross-platform puzzle games. Many of them will look familiar, like Solo (Sudoku), Mines (Minesweeper),
and Guess (Mastermind), others perhaps not, but if you like puzzles you're guaranteed to find something addicing in the
collection. I spent more time this weekend than I'd like to admit playing Bridges, Loopy (a.k.a. Slither Link) and Slant. Each of
the games has multiple difficulty levels, save and load functions, multi-level undo and redo, and a few more features,
and each one is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Palm OS. As if that weren't impressive enough, every puzzle
is a download of less than 100kb.[Via Anarchaia]
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, ...
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Johnnyg0 said 9:00AM on 3-28-2006
This is AWESOME!
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