More ways to waste your time

Puzzle Baron
Puzzle Baron

After giving a quick plug to another puzzle site recently, I discovered Puzzle Baron. It’s along the same lines with around a dozen different mental games. You can play some online, some are available to print out as PDF files, and others you can do both ways.

Definitely worth a look. It’s the first site I’ve found with free logic problems (you know, the ones with the grids?) as well as a version of Boggle.

Enjoy!

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Waste-of-time site of the day

Conceptis Puzzles
Conceptis Puzzles

OK, I admit I have a lot of spare time at the moment but this site may interest a lot of you – especially those with kids and spare printer ink. Conceptis Puzzles is a free site with loads of logic and classic games on. Layout is good and the varierty of puzzles is excellent. You have the option of printing the games out for play in your own time, or in some cases you can play online. This seems to be being rolled out with some available and some not as yet.

I’m looking forward to seeing more of them available online, and as your progress is saved in your account (free registration and virtually no information to fill in – even the Ts&Cs take up less than a quarter of a page) you can come back to a partially completed puzzle any time. Instructions are well presented with sample videos for some of them as well.

There are, at present, twelve types of puzzle available – five picture and seven number. So if you’re bored of sudoku, have a look and see if there’s a new type that takes your fancy.

I might print out a few of the join-the-dots puzzles for my little cousin. Even they come in three different varieties including multi-coloured ones. A shame they’re not online-enabled as yet (the puzzles and my cousin’s family!).

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Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden

Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden
Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden

Dear Sony,

A simple request. You own Iron Maiden. You own the rights for the production of PlayStation software. I demand that you use these to force the manufacturers of Guitar Hero to do an Iron Maiden edition.

We’ve got an Aerosmith one with Metallica on the way (sadly including a load of crap from recent albums). Maiden have countless classics out there and as far as I’m aware only two have been used in past Guitar Hero games (“Number of the Beast” in III and a cover of “The Trooper” in the XBox 360 version of II, I think).

Who wouldn’t want to riff along to “Aces High” or “Fear of the Dark“? And think of the backdrops that could be used. Classic Maiden live stage sets, Eddie in his multiple forms… It’d shift thousands!

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Another geography game

This Traveler IQ was calculated on Monday, April 20, 2009 at 01:12PM GMT by comparing this person’s geographical knowledge against the Web’s Original Travelogue‘s 3,938,360 travelers who’ve taken the challenge.

Globetrotter XL is another geography game similar to one I linked ot a long time ago. Give it a shot. It’s pretty good, though if I recall correctly the other one did let you pick continents and countries to test your knowledge of as well as just a world map. Having said that, I can’t find the game link anywhere on my blog so if you can find the page it’s on…

[update] OK, I can’t find it anywhere on my blog which is weird. Maybe I emailed it out. So here’s a link to it on TravelPod – it’s called Traveler IQ. My top score so far is 271,821 reaching level 8.

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You eyeballing me?

Eyeball
Stop staring!

Bizarre little game, this one. It’s more of a test, in a way. You know how when you check a picture to see if it’s level just by looking at it? This is called “eyeballing”, and the game tests your ability to perform various tasks of this ilk.

Definitely easier with an accurate mouse than a trackpad on a laptop, believe me.

Have fun: Eyeballing Game

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