Feeling Skilled? Try Rat Maze 2
I am not even sure why I decided to check out this free flash game Rat Maze 2. I mean, it was not like I had ever been any good at REAL mazes, so who knows what I was thinking when I thought I would have any chance with a virtual version? But still, the graphics looked good (and they really are) and I liked the sounds too. Mind you I am not sure that the rat in Rat Maze 2 looks much like a rat. It looks more like a computerized impression of what a rat might look like to a pixel creator! Still, the different scenes that the rat (you) has to go through are kind of fun. But to anyone looking for an easy to win game, Rat Maze 2 is definitely not the game you want to be playing. I am still not sure (having played this game at least 12 times), how to progress all that far.
Make More Points With Rat Maze 2
The only thing that I have improved on, is picking up extra points. You do that just by mouse control ? (not rat control, hah! Excuse the pun) ? by moving the rat around the board and finding different objects (food I guess) to eat. Each time you do that successfully you get another 100 points. Indeed, the first games I played I only got about 300 points so when I got 1500 points and I was asked to enter my name on to the high score board I thought I had really gotten somewhere. Then I saw that my name would not be seen as the lowest score, at place no. 50 on the board, was 7100!!! So clearly I need a lot more practice at Rat Maze 2 to get anywhere. I suppose it would be nice if I could also find some tips on how to actually make my way out of the maze, given that getting out is what one is supposed to try and ultimately achieve with a maze! But, one step at a time. Right now I am just working on improving my score. Like I said, I have never been one for being good at mazes (or with any real sense of direction) so it is best for me to just focus on the skills I do have.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Free Slots Tournament with Real Cash Prizes
I just heard about a free slots tournament with real cash prizes. It sounds too good to be true, but it's really real. It costs nothing to enter the tournament, but you can still win real money prizes, up to the $50,000 first prize. All the details are at the All Jackpots Casino website.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Cat and Bat Make Blood On Wall!
Whether you have always had an affinity for kitty cats or hated the of their meow and the look of their tale, you will just love Cat-Bat because it is based on either beating them to death or saving them. You have been asked by the King of the castle to get rid of the unwanted cats, but how you do it and what ultimately happens to them (dead or alive) is your choice. All the cats are bothersome to the king and his castle so you have been given a baseball bat with which to encourage the cats to climb over the wall to their freedom. You probably do not want to hurt the cats as they travel to freedom, but the graphics and sound of their blood splatting on the way is sometimes a bit too tempting for non cat lovers! Nonetheless, since this would be against the wishes of the king you would lose the game if they die so you will probably instead want to keep the cats in the air.
Remember: the more cats you keep in the air at once (3 is amazing) the more points you get, but it is not easy. You do not want the cats to go too high (they could die) or too low (they will not get over the wall to safety) so the choice is yours of how you want to deal with it. The cats are moving non stop on the ground just to confuse the situation even more and it is not easy to get the cats on the wall high enough to go over without them bleeding to death. But the more you practice, the better you will do and soon enough you could have 3 cats in the air, getting a ton of points!
Remember: the more cats you keep in the air at once (3 is amazing) the more points you get, but it is not easy. You do not want the cats to go too high (they could die) or too low (they will not get over the wall to safety) so the choice is yours of how you want to deal with it. The cats are moving non stop on the ground just to confuse the situation even more and it is not easy to get the cats on the wall high enough to go over without them bleeding to death. But the more you practice, the better you will do and soon enough you could have 3 cats in the air, getting a ton of points!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Daily Jigsaw
The Daily Jigsaw game is a great game to play if you like to improve on your skills on a regular basis. With a choice of different difficulty levels, from 104, 150, 228 or 400 pieces, each day you can see where your level is so that you can see how well you are progressing. I found it best to start with 104 pieces first. I was always pretty good at jigsaws growing up, but playing on line through flash shockwave software with the Daily Jigsaw made it so much more exciting than I had ever remembered it in the past. You can mix up the puzzle in the middle if you get a bit stuck putting the pieces on one side, to a corner, or throughout the entire space available. If you get really stuck and frustrated, you can press the Solve icon which arranges all the pieces as they should be for you (that way you can see how it is meant to look so that the next time you try to solve it yourself, you know what vision you are trying to create). But the Preview feature also gives you this (showing you a picture of the puzzle complete). For a bit more help (without pressing Solve), I often use Edges which shows me the edge pieces and helps out a little. And you can rotate too which rotates the pieces you have not yet put in the right place (and then turn them around again for the game, but it can help to see the pieces from a different angle).
If you want to move around more than one piece at a time, click on the Move icon but remember that while moving the pieces you cannot connect other pieces; nor can you move the pieces which have been set in place already. You can pause the timer too if you feel you need more time so there are a lot more options when playing Daily Puzzle on line than there were in my day playing on the floor! The game is also a great way for newcomers to computers to develop mouse control.
If you want to move around more than one piece at a time, click on the Move icon but remember that while moving the pieces you cannot connect other pieces; nor can you move the pieces which have been set in place already. You can pause the timer too if you feel you need more time so there are a lot more options when playing Daily Puzzle on line than there were in my day playing on the floor! The game is also a great way for newcomers to computers to develop mouse control.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Beat Tourists With "Sunburn"
Have you really looked forward to your vacation filled with sun, sea and sand, only to arrive and be completely put off by a ton of tourists who were thinking exactly the same thing? Have you ever just looked at them all, wishing desperately that something would come and force them off the beach, so that you could enjoy the peace and tranquility you craved back home for so many months as you were planning your vacation? Well, put your fantasy in to reality as you control the sun in Sunburn. You are the sun on the beach! You are the one burning all those irritating tourists so that they all have to run as far from the beach as possible, leaving you to enjoy the sun, sea and sand you craved.
With Sunburn flash game there is no downloading involved so you just have to click and play, wasting no time. You use the up and down arrows to avoid the cloud (you do not want the cloud to knock you out of the game and bring all those irritating tourists back) and the left and right arrow keys to zap as many tourists with your powerful rays as possible. Watch out for the clouds though as they could block your beam, knocking you out of the game and enabling those irritating hordes of tourists to come back and ruin your vacation even in virtual cyberspace!
No experience is needed for this game. Sunburn is a fun game to play but can be over pretty quickly if you run out of luck, or you do not manage to control the arrows well enough to stop the cloud from blocking you! The more you play Sunburn though, the better you will get at it.
With Sunburn flash game there is no downloading involved so you just have to click and play, wasting no time. You use the up and down arrows to avoid the cloud (you do not want the cloud to knock you out of the game and bring all those irritating tourists back) and the left and right arrow keys to zap as many tourists with your powerful rays as possible. Watch out for the clouds though as they could block your beam, knocking you out of the game and enabling those irritating hordes of tourists to come back and ruin your vacation even in virtual cyberspace!
No experience is needed for this game. Sunburn is a fun game to play but can be over pretty quickly if you run out of luck, or you do not manage to control the arrows well enough to stop the cloud from blocking you! The more you play Sunburn though, the better you will get at it.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Go Racing Online With Formula Fog
It's not like it would be fair of anyone to say I was the WORST driver in the world, but I certainly wasn't the best. I think my biggest problem with driving was not the technique or know how per se, but the confidence. So when my boyfriend told me about the racing game on line Formula Fog, I looked at him like he was a bit mad. "I don't really think that will be up my street now do you?" I retorted. But he was insistent. At least that I try it. "Come on," he said, "you can play it for free and it's one of the cool flash games using the fast and furious software. I think you'll like it." Pretty much to pacify him, I tried it. And I haven't looked back since.
Formula Fog is a fast, fun 3D animated flash game in which you have to race against another car. You can be either the red or blue car. And because you're not really on the road, it's not scary. And because it's not scary, for me I get more confidence. And the more confidence I get with Formula Fog, the more confident I actually feel when I go out driving. It's not like I race now when I go out driving, but I do feel better able to control the car more and hence I feel more confident. Interestingly the more I play Formula Fog (even when I don't win), the less I worry about taking the car out.
I have to admit that Formula Fog wasn't so easy at first. I kept careering off the road! So I played it without the sound so I could concentrate more. But the more accustomed I got to this racing game, the better I could control the car and the more exciting it got and then I loved the music and went faster and faster around the laps. What I basically came to realize was, that my movements had to be far more gradual. I had to make sure that I wasn't pushing too much to the right or the left and then I stayed on track much more easily. And then i was able to go really fast and really race the other car and boy did I enjoy it!
Formula Fog is a fast, fun 3D animated flash game in which you have to race against another car. You can be either the red or blue car. And because you're not really on the road, it's not scary. And because it's not scary, for me I get more confidence. And the more confidence I get with Formula Fog, the more confident I actually feel when I go out driving. It's not like I race now when I go out driving, but I do feel better able to control the car more and hence I feel more confident. Interestingly the more I play Formula Fog (even when I don't win), the less I worry about taking the car out.
I have to admit that Formula Fog wasn't so easy at first. I kept careering off the road! So I played it without the sound so I could concentrate more. But the more accustomed I got to this racing game, the better I could control the car and the more exciting it got and then I loved the music and went faster and faster around the laps. What I basically came to realize was, that my movements had to be far more gradual. I had to make sure that I wasn't pushing too much to the right or the left and then I stayed on track much more easily. And then i was able to go really fast and really race the other car and boy did I enjoy it!
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Improve Mouse Control With Twiddle Stix
Everyone Can Enjoy Twiddle Stix
Twiddle Stix is the kind of game that all the family can enjoy. it is a cute concept. With Twiddle Stix you are the stick that is in the water. Perhaps the game emerged out of the concept of Poohsticks or something because it sure did remind me of the days of old when I was a kid and played Poohsticks with my family. You know, the game in which you each take a stick (usually a broken tree branch), throw it on one side of the river and then watch to see it come through to the other side. Well, with Twiddle Stix, you have a stick (also that looks like a broken tree branch) and you have to try and move it through the river, using your up, down, right and left cursor keys. The only problem is, there are so many blocks, and the stick rotates so fast on its own, that it is pretty difficult to try and get it through the narrow spots.
Be Patient With Twiddle Stix
But the game is very much about learning and developing patience. I found that the more I waited in place when I found myself (the stick!) in a potential bind, the better off I was. I only ran into trouble and got knocked out of a level when I was in too much of a rush. Given this lesson, I found that I also - at the same time - learned something important for life. Sometimes one needs to really move, full steam ahead, in life. But at other times, it is just as important to sit back and wait. Let other things move along so that you can just sit back and smell the coffee. And when you do that, everything will fall in place and your time will come, eventually, at just the right moment in the grander scheme of things.
Twiddle Stix is the kind of game that all the family can enjoy. it is a cute concept. With Twiddle Stix you are the stick that is in the water. Perhaps the game emerged out of the concept of Poohsticks or something because it sure did remind me of the days of old when I was a kid and played Poohsticks with my family. You know, the game in which you each take a stick (usually a broken tree branch), throw it on one side of the river and then watch to see it come through to the other side. Well, with Twiddle Stix, you have a stick (also that looks like a broken tree branch) and you have to try and move it through the river, using your up, down, right and left cursor keys. The only problem is, there are so many blocks, and the stick rotates so fast on its own, that it is pretty difficult to try and get it through the narrow spots.
Be Patient With Twiddle Stix
But the game is very much about learning and developing patience. I found that the more I waited in place when I found myself (the stick!) in a potential bind, the better off I was. I only ran into trouble and got knocked out of a level when I was in too much of a rush. Given this lesson, I found that I also - at the same time - learned something important for life. Sometimes one needs to really move, full steam ahead, in life. But at other times, it is just as important to sit back and wait. Let other things move along so that you can just sit back and smell the coffee. And when you do that, everything will fall in place and your time will come, eventually, at just the right moment in the grander scheme of things.
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