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SPEEDcluster: Time Waster of the Day

Time Waster SPEEDcluster
Our friends at Joystiq turned us on to today's Time-Waster, SPEEDcluster. The object of the game is to click and drag the cards from the bottom row onto one of the cards falling from the top. So, for example, you could click and drag the 7 onto the 8. You gain more points for creating longer chains of cards that can go in ascending or descending order. Your next move would be to place the 8 onto the just placed 7 to create the chain 8, 7 then 8.

The longer the chain is, the more points you receive. Bonuses in time and score are given for crazy long chains of cards, making for a very playable time-bandit game. Hint: you can place an ace onto a 2 to achieve even longer chains of cards.

[via Joystiq]

Filed under: Games, Windows, Linux, Open Source, Time-Wasters

Duo - Today's Time Waster

duoUno is perhaps one of my favorite card games. Not because it's the best, but because it has broad appeal, an easy but fun rule system, and pretty colors. I like the primary colors, they remind me of the 80's. So I found Duo, an Uno-ish game that's open source, written in Python, and available for Windows, Linux, and BeOS (for both of you who care). I suppose you might be able to get it to work in OS X, but no guarantees. One problem: it's in French. Still, if you're familiar with Uno at all the interface is very similar to the Game Boy Color port, and won't take long to figure out. Enjoy!

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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, ...

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