Even more games + Chaser's FULL EPISODES!
High quality full-length episodes of The Chaser's War on Everything (mentioned in this post) are available for free download here. There are a few sketches that people outside of Australia won't get (Australian news and politics), but there's definitely enough awesomeness to go around!
If you like games like Bejeweled or any number of similar tile-dropping combo games, you'll definitely want to play Chain Factor. Even if Bejeweled isn't your thing, I'd recommend giving this one a go. To play, simply drop the circle in one of the seven columns. A tile will clear when it is in a row or column containing exactly the number of connecting circles as the number of the tile. Sounds confusing, but it's really not. There are 3 modes of play, and 12 special powers that you can choose from to use, which gives Chain Factor a high replay value. Apparently it's also somehow related to the TV show Numb3rs, and there was for a while a whole underground code-cracking game associated with it to unlock the powers (all powers have now been unlocked).
In Sola Rola, you are required to tilt the various maze-like levels back and forth to get two colored balls to their goals at the same time. As usual, there are switches and traps that lend an element of strategy. Do yourself a favor and skip the intro though... it is truly boring and almost turned me off to the game itself before I even started playing!
Boggle enthusiasts will enjoy San-Go. To play, simply move the tiles around to form the greatest number of words horizontally and vertically. However, once you move a tile, you have 3 turns to get it exactly where you want before it locks in! This would be a little bit better if yu could only switch adjacent tiles, but it's still a lot of fun. You can compete for a high score on each puzzle, although there are so many that only the lower-numbered puzzles have much in the way of competition.
Finally, here's two "games" from hamumu.com that are daily, interactive word contests.
For Dumb Words all you have to do is predict the word will be the most common answer. For example, yesterday's question was "What is your favorite type of cheese?" Cheddar was the overwhelming winner with 54 votes, so everyone who guessed Cheddar received 54x2 = 108 points. Second was American with 6 votes, so each person who guessed American receives 6 points (no bonus multiplier for non-winning words). It's like word-association, except you have to (perhaps) ignore what your own mind comes up with and try to get into the minds of the average website visitor.
The second hamumu.com game is T.A.G., which presumably stands for The Acronym Game. The object here is similar to the acronym part of Beyond Balderdash -- come up with a meaning for the given acronym. You're provided a theme to adhere to. Come back the next day to vote on the best submission -- you get as many points as your acronym receives votes, but only if you yourself have voted.
The score for both of these games is your total points for the last thirty days, so it may take a while to crack the leaderboard. But for just a few minutes a day, it provides an immense amount of entertainment.
If you like games like Bejeweled or any number of similar tile-dropping combo games, you'll definitely want to play Chain Factor. Even if Bejeweled isn't your thing, I'd recommend giving this one a go. To play, simply drop the circle in one of the seven columns. A tile will clear when it is in a row or column containing exactly the number of connecting circles as the number of the tile. Sounds confusing, but it's really not. There are 3 modes of play, and 12 special powers that you can choose from to use, which gives Chain Factor a high replay value. Apparently it's also somehow related to the TV show Numb3rs, and there was for a while a whole underground code-cracking game associated with it to unlock the powers (all powers have now been unlocked).
In Sola Rola, you are required to tilt the various maze-like levels back and forth to get two colored balls to their goals at the same time. As usual, there are switches and traps that lend an element of strategy. Do yourself a favor and skip the intro though... it is truly boring and almost turned me off to the game itself before I even started playing!
Boggle enthusiasts will enjoy San-Go. To play, simply move the tiles around to form the greatest number of words horizontally and vertically. However, once you move a tile, you have 3 turns to get it exactly where you want before it locks in! This would be a little bit better if yu could only switch adjacent tiles, but it's still a lot of fun. You can compete for a high score on each puzzle, although there are so many that only the lower-numbered puzzles have much in the way of competition.
Finally, here's two "games" from hamumu.com that are daily, interactive word contests.
For Dumb Words all you have to do is predict the word will be the most common answer. For example, yesterday's question was "What is your favorite type of cheese?" Cheddar was the overwhelming winner with 54 votes, so everyone who guessed Cheddar received 54x2 = 108 points. Second was American with 6 votes, so each person who guessed American receives 6 points (no bonus multiplier for non-winning words). It's like word-association, except you have to (perhaps) ignore what your own mind comes up with and try to get into the minds of the average website visitor.
The second hamumu.com game is T.A.G., which presumably stands for The Acronym Game. The object here is similar to the acronym part of Beyond Balderdash -- come up with a meaning for the given acronym. You're provided a theme to adhere to. Come back the next day to vote on the best submission -- you get as many points as your acronym receives votes, but only if you yourself have voted.
The score for both of these games is your total points for the last thirty days, so it may take a while to crack the leaderboard. But for just a few minutes a day, it provides an immense amount of entertainment.