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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.
[via MakeUseOf]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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