The title means I think The Conspiracy, and no doubt it contains all sorts of biting satire on the Mexican political system, but for our purposes it’s a nice little Flash game of the “make the little man do X” variety. Well, it wasted me some time. Edit: forgot to say, thanks karohemd for pointing […]
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My favourite email of today
Subject: about some info i read About susan walsh. you are deeply wrong. She had walked out of her apartment to make a call and was never heard from. The date was July,16,1996 when she dissapeared. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would change it. If you want to reply of any sort, […]
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Bizarre email of the week (so far)
“Dear Sirs. I have just conducted a search of ‘metal wall atlanteans’ and I have noted your site. I would be most grateful if you can advise where you obtained the origins of the extract noted on the following link: http://www.undyingking.com/oldgames/inferno/truehist.htm As I am very interested in some of the detail and it there a […]
Given the amount of time wasted on Hapland in my previous post, I thought it’s about time to start a new post for Hapland 2 — basically the same sort of thing, but more complicated! Be warned, it took me about twice as long to do as the first one. But there are lots of […]
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Hapland, or; How To Waste Half an Hour
Hapland is an excellent little Flash puzzle-game I’ve just found, although it must have been around for a while as there’s now a Hapland 2. It took me quite a while to solve it, but as I’m normally incredibly prone to giving up in disgust at tough puzzles, it’s a tribute to its fun-ness that […]
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River puzzle
Stumbled across this fiendish puzzle — I don’t have the patience to work it out, anyone else do better than that? (Without writing a program to solve it, wimble… oh OK then, you can if you like…)
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Quick plug for games
As many of you know, I run a bunch of (free) play-by-Web games on one of my sites. I just wanted to get a quick plug in for those of you who don’t know! They’re turn-based simple strategy games running at one turn per day, which typically take just a minute or two tops to […]
A mathematical (sort of) puzzle to help you while away your lunchbreak. I haven’t worked out the answer yet myself, so if you beat me to it, you can have at least one kudo, maybe more.
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Bizarre work-related email of the day
Every now and then I get emails relating to Ixion’s Wheel, a PBM RPG that we used to run some years ago.
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The Game of the Book
I spent this weekend role-playing in a rather unusual campaign.