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Scramball 2 is a speedy ball rolling Time Waster

Scramball 2Scramball 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.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters

MazeFrenzy- Today's Time Waster

Maze FrenzyMazeFrenzy is a mouse-pointer game where you must direct a red dot from "start" to "finish" on a light-colored path without touching the dark-colored boundaries. It's very similar to the board game Operation. To play simply click your mouse on the red dot, let go of the mouse button, and drag your mouse (and the red dot) through the maze to your goal.

You'll encounter obstacles, shortcuts, and frustrating readjustments of your hand and mouse which will inevitably bump the dot into the boundaries causing you to have to start all over again.

While it took us an embarrassing number of tries to complete the maze, we know you'll do better. And when you do, try the even harder version, Maze Frenzy 2.

[Via earthshine]

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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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