Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
Prevention has games for your brain - Time Waster
by Christina Clark Sep 25th 2008
The fun games offer sudoku, word search, mah jongg, and a fun little thing called Spliterature. In Spliterature you are given a jumbled batch of letters and you have to create two words that fit into a certain category. And you have to do it as fast as you can. The word search is extrememly easy until you get to the bonus round. Then you have a category but no word list and must search for words you think might fit the category.
The brain games page has just as many fun choices which supposedly sharpen your memory and you mind. It's not going to help any of us do Jedi mind tricks any time soon but, the games are fun. You can choose from Street of Dreams where you have to match words into categories - simple until some of the categories are hidden from you.
Pandara's Boutique offers a variety of items and prompts for you to spot the identical items or pick out the one that is different. All as quickly as you can. Heraldry is a memory game where you look at a coat of arms and then recreate it from memory. Other options are Busy Bistro, another memory game and Secret Files where you have to catch falling words in specific folders to organize them.
None of these are games that I would play for hours and hours but I do enjoy a good word game now and then and Prevention offers that and a bit more to keep you busy. The games are good for a quick break and if they exercise your brain in the process, well, that's even better.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
