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I am game-impaired.
I found this game on Facebook, and it's a ripoff of Bejeweled called Betokened. Bejeweled and other pattern creating and matching games (like Same Game) are the only kinds of game I can play. I love playing this game. The deal is, you buy games with tokens and you earn more tokens the more you play, and you have to level up regularly. One of the things you need to do to level up is to score better than X on the three games they have--a Sudoku game, a Concentration game, and the Betokened game. I had to do better than 50% at Sudoku, get 100% at Concentration, and get 100% at Betokened.
I pwned the Betokened game and won it the first time I played at the new level. I tried to play Sudoku and could not score better than 36%. I have gotten 93% at Concentration but haven't beaten it yet. Finally, in desperation, I got Peter to win the Sudoku game for me, and I ran out of tokens trying to beat Concentration.
I'm not a stupid person. I know a shitload about email and spam and malware and I am even fairly proficient with DNS. I can play poker. I can even calculate my outs fairly accurately when I'm playing. I can play bass guitar and piano. But the part of my brain that should be able to play games just never developed, and I don't know why. I swear, the only thing I can liken it to is when I was completely bested by story problems in fifth grade. My teacher tried to tutor me and on the third day she said "So, if a train leaves the station at 8:53..." and I burst into frustrated, angry tears.
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. But I wish I understood it.
I found this game on Facebook, and it's a ripoff of Bejeweled called Betokened. Bejeweled and other pattern creating and matching games (like Same Game) are the only kinds of game I can play. I love playing this game. The deal is, you buy games with tokens and you earn more tokens the more you play, and you have to level up regularly. One of the things you need to do to level up is to score better than X on the three games they have--a Sudoku game, a Concentration game, and the Betokened game. I had to do better than 50% at Sudoku, get 100% at Concentration, and get 100% at Betokened.
I pwned the Betokened game and won it the first time I played at the new level. I tried to play Sudoku and could not score better than 36%. I have gotten 93% at Concentration but haven't beaten it yet. Finally, in desperation, I got Peter to win the Sudoku game for me, and I ran out of tokens trying to beat Concentration.
I'm not a stupid person. I know a shitload about email and spam and malware and I am even fairly proficient with DNS. I can play poker. I can even calculate my outs fairly accurately when I'm playing. I can play bass guitar and piano. But the part of my brain that should be able to play games just never developed, and I don't know why. I swear, the only thing I can liken it to is when I was completely bested by story problems in fifth grade. My teacher tried to tutor me and on the third day she said "So, if a train leaves the station at 8:53..." and I burst into frustrated, angry tears.
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter. But I wish I understood it.