Most people aren’t at their cognitive best on Monday morning, and this short trick question quiz does a great job of proving it. Since it’s only 11 multiple choice questions, it shouldn’t take very long to complete, although you’ll probably end up wishing you’d given it more thought when you get the results. See if [...]
I am not a puzzle person. I’m very analytical and I’ve always considered myself a smart person, but I’ve never been especially good at puzzles. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that it took me more than half an hour to solve the leap frog puzzle that my mother emailed to me the other [...]
“Oh no! You’ve sunk my battleship!” Okay, so the old commercials were pretty hokie, but the game itself has always been solid. It reminds me a bit of poker in that your odds of victory depend just as much on luck as they do on your ability to read your opponent. Unfortunately, there’s no reading [...]
It’s been a while since I surfed the internet without any particular goal in mind. Appropriately enough, I found a nice web game to help alleviate my boredom. Called Curveball, it’s sort of a three-dimensional twist on classic pong. Be careful, though, because the game’s AI is deceptively skilled. It’s easy to beat when you [...]
Although the work level is always pretty low by Friday afternoon, all productivity seemed to stop today when someone emailed this Guess the Google game to everyone in my office. The premise is pretty simple. You’ll be shown a selection of images that are supposedly the first few results from a Google Image search. Your [...]
Having worked in IT all of my professional career, I couldn’t resist but take the “Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?” quiz on Matt Round’s website, Malevole. I was actually surprised that I got eight out of ten correct on the first attempt. Maybe all those years working around scary-looking programmers has given me some [...]
I’ve blogged about Homestarrunner.com in the past, and pretty much everything on the site qualifies as great entertainment. However, Trogdor stands out from other features on the site. Today, my wife insisted that I go to the computer as soon as I got home to see a tribute to Trogdor’s third birthday. To those of [...]
My wife got me into Neopets when we first started dating back in high school. The site was obviously designed to appeal more to children, but nonetheless proved to be a great time killer, as it’s absolutely stuffed with games and other distractions. I have devolved to just playing the stock market, but I still [...]