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Play With Spider gives you shivers - Time Waster

Play With Spider
Play With spider from One Motion kind of gave me the creeps. But then, I don't really care for spiders too much.

Basically, it's a flash game (although there is no winning or losing) where you lay out bugs for a spider to eat. The spider is very realistic. In fact I said "eeew!" many times while playing.

It was fun to lay out the bugs in patterns to make the spider follow them - like DLS (for Download Squad). As a time waster, I didn't spend all that much time, maybe 10 minutes, on this. But, I can see it having other uses.

Have an annoying coworker that tries to use your computer? Leave Play With Spider up on the screen and as soon as they sit down and the spider starts to walk around, most people would be a bit grossed out. Or at least they will say something loud enough for you to hear them and catch them in the act.

It's apparently a good cat toy as well.

[Via BoingBoing]

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Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

CiviballsI have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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