{"id":3975,"date":"2007-08-10T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2007\/08\/10\/3975.html"},"modified":"2007-08-10T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T18:36:17","slug":"flash-gamestoyspuzzles-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2007\/08\/10\/flash-gamestoyspuzzles-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash, Java, and JavaScript games\/toys\/puzzles roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Assorted interesting and\/or cool online games, toys, and puzzles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jayisgames.com\/cgdc3_redirect.php?gameID=2\">Gimme Friction Baby<\/a>, which Charles D described as \"sort of a cross between Missile Command and Curling.\"  After it finishes loading, wait a bit for it to select the right game; once it shows the \"Gimme Friction Baby\" screen, click that.  I'm not gonna tell you the rules; play around with it for a little while to see how it works.  Fun and addictive, and each game is generally short. Bizarrely, sometimes when you click that link it takes you to a description of the game rather than the game itself; if it does that, skim down to find the link with the name of the game and click that.  (You can read the full description if you want, but I think it's more fun to figure it out for yourself; pretty easy to figure out.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/games\/presidents.php\">Can you name all the US Presidents in ten minutes?<\/a> Last names only, which means that some names will get you multiple Presidents at once.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmsg.com\/games\/statetris\/usa\/\">Statetris-USA<\/a>: Tetris with the 50 US states. Higher levels do things like remove the state-name labels.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chir.ag\/stuff\/sand\/\">Falling sand game<\/a>. No goal, no scoring, no victory conditions; just a cool toy.  Fairly self-explanatory; the main thing I couldn't figure out on my own is that \"Cera\" is wax, which burns slowly when set afire.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedpissahgames.com\/games\/gravitypods\/GravityPods.html\">Gravity Pods<\/a>, sort of a puzzle game.  I eventually made it through level 40, out of 50 total.  Levels take anywhere from a few seconds to tens of minutes to figure out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrobots.net\/\">Acrobots<\/a>: another fun toy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.handdrawngames.com\/DesktopTD\/game.asp\">Desktop Tower Defense<\/a>, which is much more complicated than anything else listed here, and requires much more remembering of rules and working out strategy and such.  I only played it once or twice and it didn't do much for me, but several of my friends got really into it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assorted interesting and\/or cool online games, toys, and puzzles: Gimme Friction Baby, which Charles D described as &#8220;sort of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}