Loops of Zen proves harmony can be frustrating - Time Waster
"Everything is circular, Happy. Feel the flow."In loops of zen, your task is to restore harmony to an assortment of shapes by assembling them in such a way that "no open end is left over."
Click, click, click. Turn, turn, turn. Click, click, click. Try again.
It's a good thing the process is so simple, because I probably would have gotten hopelessly flustered with anything more complicated once I'd gotten through a few levels of this seemingly simple puzzler.
Soothing, ambient music plays gently in the background. It's clearly an attempt by the game's developer to keep you from launching your fancy new netbook out a window as you search for the right combination of twists and turns to complete each level.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go look for something in the snowbank. Totally unrelated.
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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James said 3:55PM on 1-06-2009
Reminds me of Slitherlink - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slitherlink
I get the feeling that both of these would probably make you want to harm yourself or someone else.
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Jason said 4:36PM on 1-06-2009
Not that impressed - the interface is clumsy and unclear, and you're just given the puzzle to look at and deal with - no configuration.
look at "net" here.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
- it solves both of those problems, gives you a "solve" function if you can't figure it out, and the rest of the puzzle collection is one of th better time wasters I've ever seen.
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Timmy P. said 12:31AM on 1-07-2009
It seems the everyother time waster you post I play the day before the post. It kept me busy for a good hour but now I think I may be failing my Lit. class. Great game over all, well at least in my oppion.
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