Download Squad

Today's time waster is one of those that expresses its elegance through sheer simplicity and minimalism. In Nanotube, you only need the left and right directional keys and your ability to track multiple targets simultaneously (your multi-target awareness?).

The game goes like this: you are presented with a circle that has partially colored blocks, and using the directional keys, you can manipulate and spin the colors around the circle, much like you would move the paddle in Pong. As colored balls come towards the circle from the center, you attempt to block them with the appropriately colored block. If you succeed in doing this, you will get points, if you fail, you will start losing health. After each round you survive, you move onto the next, each becoming increasingly difficult with the surface area of the blocks decreasing, and the number of colors and rate of ball release increasing.

Obviously, with any game or time waster that operates at this level of simplicity, words can do it very little justice and you'd better be off just trying it. Imagine trying to get someone excited about Tetris using only words.