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Saturday, October 16, 2010

PUZZLE: Forecast: Chilly

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Find the hidden message. (This one's easy. Try it on the kids.) Time befriends For brief space-- Warm days sends; Clothes in grace Man...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

PUZZLE: Words & Music

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Using just the notes of the musical scale (A, B, C, D, E, F, G), what is the longest word you can make?
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App O' The Mornin': Bejeweled 2 Review

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In honor of the 10th anniversary of Bejeweled, the game is selling for $1 until October 20th, which is a 66% discount. Chuzzle, Bookworm, an...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

REVIEW: Medal of Honor (2010)

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PC/360/PS3: $60 Grade: B This should have been so much better. I was hoping that the reboot of the Medal of Honor series would knock Ca...

App O' The Mornin': Super Monkey Ball 2 Review

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$6 Holy smokes, has it really been 10 years since Super Monkey Ball debuted on the GameCube? I loved the gameplay of the original, but I h...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

COLONIAL GAMING: I. Kirk Playing Cards

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For the previous entry on Colonial playing cards, see this post on the I. Hardy Great Mogul deck . In addition to the I. Hardy reproducti...

App O' The Mornin': Crazy Parachute Review

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Price: $1 As high-concepts go, "Bird Strike in reverse" is as simple as you can get. And that's exactly what Colorbox gives...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Gaming on your … Kindle?

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I’ve been wondering when Amazon would attempt to integrate gaming into its Kindle ebook devices. Although there were a couple of attempts t...

App O' The Mornin': Red Remover Review

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I planned to review Flubby Physics, but as I played it a strange sense of Déjà vu came over me. That’s when I realized I was playing a fairl...
Monday, October 11, 2010

WIN!: Plants vs. Zombies Limited Edition (Game of the Year Edition PC/Mac)

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Thanks to all who participated in the GelaSkin contest.  The winners were Will D., LeeAnn W., and Brett N. They've all been notified b...
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App O' The Mornin': Puzzle Agent UPDATE

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U pdate (10/11/10): This morning's app is a revisit of Puzzle Agent, which I review favorably below. The game had problem with fuzzy te...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

This week in review

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Posts Bicycle September Ends Poptober Begins  REVIEW: Memoir '44 Puzzlewood: A Maze in Nature PUZZLE: Next Door Neighbors (stil...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

What's wrong with this picture?

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This is a screen capture from UGH Find It Lite, which is a "spot the difference" app that I downloaded for my daughter. I decided ...
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Friday, October 8, 2010

Friday Linkaround

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Plants vs. Zynga: The CEO of PopCap, Dave Roberts, recently took some time to smack around Zynga . Activity for the afternoon: compare/cont...
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App O' The Mornin': Axe in The Face Review

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If you want to get me to buy your game, just go ahead and name it Axe in the Face . Works every time. If you want to be doubly sure I'...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

In the mail: Betrayal at House on the Hill & more

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It's been kind of a slow week for games, but a couple of interesting items have arrived, including... Betrayal at House on the Hill ...

App O' The Mornin': Cut the Rope Review

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Cut the Rope is one of the best puzzlers to hit the App Store in a long time. If any game has the potential to knock those Angry Birds off t...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

WIN! Plants vs. Zombies GelaSkins

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I'm giving away a few Plants Vs. Zombies GelaSkins , generously provided by PopCap. They fit either iPhone 4 or 3GS/3G/original. They do...
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PUZZLE: Next-Door Neighbors

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Here's a poser from Henry Dudeney: "There were two families living next door to one another at Tooting Bec—the Jupps and the Simk...
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Puzzlewood: A Maze In Nature

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If you don't yet have Atlas Obscura --"A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica"--in your RSS feed,...
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