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Winterbells - Today's Time Waster

WinterbellsToday's Time Waster has a lot going for it: Simple controls, cute bunny character, soothing music, addicting gameplay, and a pretty, wintry theme. Oh, and it's by Orisinal. The goal in Winterbells to get your little white bunny to jump as high as possible. After your initial jump, you control the bunny exclusively by moving the mouse. Each time he lands on a bell, he jumps higher and your score increases. If he lands on a bird, your score is doubled. The higher he gets, the more points each jump is worth. While this sounds pretty simplistic, it gets surprisingly challenging (and anxiety-inducing) as the stakes increase and the bells get smaller, and one missed bell can send your bunny plummeting (gently) to the ground. So hop on over (sorry, couldn't resist), and after you've got the hang of it, post your high scores in the comments. I'm up to 244.410 1,523,110.

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Bugs - Today's Time Waster

BugsSo as to make up for yesterday's excellent-but-incomplete Time Waster, today I'm offering up a game from the excellent Orisinal collection: Bugs. Bugs is a serene little Flash game the object of which is to scare away, but not kill, the colorful bugs. You control the little girl with your mouse. Holding it down will make a bubble grow around her, and letting it go will make her jump. The bigger the bubble the higher she'll jump and the more bugs she'll scare away when she lands, but don't let the bugs touch the bubble or it'll pop. You must guide her as she lands so she drops near as many bugs as possible (so as to scare them away), but if you land on three of them you lose.

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Time Waster of the Day: Orisinal, a boat load of great Flash games

orisinalI am a huge fan of WarioWare. Little, goofy, quickie games are great diversions for the old-timey gamer in me. And Orisinal is a great example of these. Not only does the site have a bunch of 'em, they are all quite novel in design. For example, "Pocketful of Stars" has you directing a little girl to jump up and catch stars— in her reflection. Many of these Flash-based games originated years ago, back when Flash was at version 4! Don't let their age fool you though, like a fine wine they have aged well. Or maybe my thumbs just can't take the intensity of Metroid like they used to... Either way, be prepared for a high "cuteness" factor (think Hello Kitty on acid).

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Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

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 ...

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