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Guess The Google - Today's Time Waster
by Brad Linder May 10th 2008 at 12:00PM
Quick, what do the twenty images above have in common? If you guessed they're all images pulled from Google Images, you guessed right. But that's not the answer we're looking for. The correct answer is Windows. And now you pretty much know how to play Guess the Google.
The game picks a random word, performs a Google Image search, and then gives you the results. You have 20 seconds to figure out the original search query. The faster you figure it out, the more points you get. The game is simple, but surprisingly addictive.
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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, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ryan said 4:57PM on 5-10-2008
That was great and much more difficult than I expected.
One of the keywords was onomatopeia. I could barely spell it!
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John said 10:37PM on 5-10-2008
Damn you, 20 hours of my life wasted!
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hazard said 9:11AM on 5-11-2008
thought this was familiar ;) .. and I still like it
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/08/05/guess-the-google-is-way-too-addictive/
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Brad Linder said 9:12AM on 5-11-2008
Wow. I totally missed that. I mean, umm... every three years or so we like to remind readers of some of our favorite games. :)
Ruan Caiman said 11:33AM on 5-12-2008
Reminds me a lot of fastr, a really similar flickr-based game.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/01/31/fastr-todays-time-waster/
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Dan Stucke said 11:50AM on 6-19-2008
cool
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