Time Wasters

I’m a busy guy, things to do, people to see, a mover, a shaker; you get the idea. So I must warn you now that clicking on any one of the following links will turn you into a drooling, slack jawed, hand-cramped, red-eyed click zombie. Clicking on two of them will ruin your life as you know it and you will awake in a cardboard box under an off-ramp. I clicked on them all, so you won’t need to, and I don’t need to tell you what this has done to my workplace productivity. So, to recap, don’t click on any of these links. You have been warned.

First we have a silly game: Finger Frenzy Basically a typing tutor on crack, it’s a sprint to type the whole alphabet as quickly as you can. Mildly amusing, but since I suck at typing, not that great for me.

Then it gets a bit more interesting, Planarity is a puzzle game that really really gets hard. Oh sure the first few levels have you snickering, but trust me when I say that things get rather difficult really quickly.

Then we have what a commenter on Digg described best: “it’s a toy, not a game”. The Falling Sand Game is deceptively fun in my opinion, but your mileage may vary. I found myself strangely drawn to this thing, for whatever reason.

Katamari Damacy in a browser, nothing more needs to be said.

Flea Circus and Lemmings are rather alike, the big difference is that Lemmings is rather slow, while Flea circus is most definitely not. I remember playing Lemmings when it first came out, it was really fun. Now you can play in a browser….

And the most recent click-trance I have been subjected to: Blueprint Very fun, well done game that I can’t get much past halfway on, but still pretty neat. It’s a “mousetrap” sort of thing where you have to redirect a bouncing ball to hit a target using the tools provided. Lots of maddening fun.

Credit for these links in no particular order goes to: Digg.com, Metafilter, there may be others.