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Brainscannr - very quick Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Oct 30th 2007
This one has to go in the "just plain odd" category. Brainscannr is based on a Japanese web site, called nounai me-ka-, or Brain Insides Maker, which uses kanji to represent the various brain states a person might have. The creator of Brainscannr needed to come up with something that would be easily understood by the English-speaking world, so he chose the ubiquitous smiley face. It's hard to understand the point behind Brainscannr. Basically it takes a person's name, and uses some sort of algorithm to determine that person's "brain state". This consists of a bunch of different smiley (and frowny, and more emoticon-type faces than you can imagine) filling up a graphic of a brain.
Since it's all just based on the name, non-name words work just as well as real names. For example, the image you see here is how the brain of "Download Squad" is represented.
Weird.
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, ...
