Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Time-Wasters
Scramball 2 is a speedy ball rolling Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jul 14th 2009
Scramball 2 is a dead-simple time waster, where the goal is to roll your ball as quickly as you can through the maze to the goal. There are only four control buttons - up, down, left, and right. The ball is bouncy, and touching the walls will usually cost you time, but if you aim strategically sometimes you can use the bounciness to your advantage.
The game quickly becomes difficult, but I surprisingly found I had a lot more success when playing the game in Safari on my Mac as compared to Firefox; for some reason Flash apps seem to perform better in Safari. It was enough of a noticeable difference that I was easily able to get two levels further ahead than I'd been able to on Firefox.
The goal in each level is to get a trophy by achieving a certain speed, as measured by how long it takes you to complete the level. Unfortunately, you don't get to see what the target time is ahead of time. If you get an exceedingly fast time, you get a gem, which seems to indicate that you've mastered the level.
This is the perfect game to play for three minutes when switching tasks, or otherwise trying to relax your brain. I doubt you'd want to spend an entire coffee break on it, but sometimes that's a good thing.
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 ...
