Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Time-Wasters
Fix this Creative Commons photo
by Brad Linder Mar 10th 2007
He's taken 200 images, and chopped them up into little squares. Rather than sliding them around to make a complete picture, you just click on each tile until it rotates into the right position. Sound easy? For the most part it is. But like any puzzle, you've got to be careful when working on the background, where the difference between one tile and the next isn't that great.
The game's a nice little distraction, as are others you can find on the Games for the Brain page. But it's also a nice application of the power of Creative Commons licenses. Rather than snapping 200 photos worth looking at on his own, Lenssen was able to create his game using freely available photos uploaded by Flickr users from around the globe.
[via Boing Boing]
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, ...
